Medical Examiner

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Tovil, Maidstone

Medical Examiner

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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Tovil, Maidstone

  • Part time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 day ago, 24 Dec | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: d0e37a49001148609a0a434e111fb315

Full Job Description

We are looking for motivated and inquisitive doctors to join our experienced, established team of Medical Examiners (ME).

The ME service provides independent scrutiny of all non-Coronial deaths within primary and secondary care. The MEs proportionate review of medical history combined with giving the bereaved relatives an opportunity to raise and discuss any queries provides a transparent and accurate process for death certification and allows detection of Clinical and quality governance issues.

You will need to discuss the cause of death with the bereaved person/nominated representative and with the qualified attending practitioner to ensure that you are satisfied the medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD) is accurate. You will refer to the Coroner if an MCCD can not be written and further investigation is needed based on legal requirements. You will highlight patients that need to be referred for a structured judgement review.

The successful candidates will be 5 years post registration with the GMC and licensed to practice in the UK with a minimum of five years post qualification experience.

Applications are encouraged from a diverse range of clinical specialities, hospital and general practice. You will work up to 1.25 PAs per week which may include an expectation of additional working at weekends and bank holidays on an on call basis (still in discussion)., Medical Examiners (ME) are appropriately trained doctors who will have a minimum of five years' experience as a fully registered medical practitioner. MEs will be currently practising or have retired in the last five years, and will hold a license to practice with the GMC or the equivalent medical registration from an overseas body.

MEs will verify clinical information on Medical Certificates of Cause of death (MCCDs), and ensure appropriate referrals are made to the Coroner for further investigation.

MEs will provide a transparent and independent scrutiny of the death certification process. MEs will take a consistent approach to the formulation of MCCD content, which must be clinically accurate, and reflect any discussions with the nominated representative/informant. MEs must not have been involved in the care of the deceased patients they scrutinise.

Would you like to work flexibly?In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in West Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.

In the 2023NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.