Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Portsmouth Medical Examiner Service are looking to recruit 2 Medical Examiners to broaden and strengthen our existing team of 16 MEs and 7 MEOs. The MEs are a diverse team of primary and secondary care clinicians and our MEOs are a mix of allied health professionals and non clinical-staff.

We are well established in our scrutiny of inpatient and community hospital deaths and successfully navigated the advent of the statutory system. Bereaved people are at the heart of what we do, giving them an opportunity to ask questions and raise concerns as well as providing an explanation of the MCCD and death certification process.

We are looking for colleagues to provide 1 session of 4 hours each week based on a 42 week year. You would be expected to offer sessions with a degree of flexibility to fulfil a rota. Some commitment is expected to fulfil requests for fast-track scrutiny out of hours but the area has low demand for this service. The job is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.

During your session, you will scrutinise a mixture of hospital and community cases to ensure accuracy of death certification, pick up governance issues and learning opportunities.

For more information, please refer to Job Description.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• As a pre-condition of practicing, an Medical Examiner must have successfully completed the mandatory components of the national online medical examiner curriculum. Face-to-face training must be completed within the first three months of being in post.

Clinical Experience

• Must have at least 5 years post-Registration medical experience.
• Medical Examiner's should have up-to-date knowledge of causes of death and an understanding of the legal frameworks associated with death certification processes.
• Knowledge of local and national clinical governance systems and an understanding of how the Medical Examiner can work collaboratively to improve patient safety by identifying sub-optimal clinical and organisational performance

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.