Mortuary Support Worker

The University Hospital of North Midlands, Mid Cheshire and East Cheshire NHS Trusts are working collaboratively to form a Pathology network in line with a NHSI directive., Your role as a Mortuary Support Worker (MSW) is to work alongside trainee and qualified Mortuary Technologists as part of the mortuary department team to provide care to deceased patients.

The types of duties include: admitting and discharging deceased, viewing deceased to relatives, weighing and recording organs weights, washing and dressing deceased patients, cleaning the post mortem rooms, monitoring deceased's condition.

Acting with compassion you will put deceased patients at the centre of all you do.

You will communicate effectively with the mortuary team.

During winter months November - March the core hours are extended to accommodate for changes in service provision due to the demand of capacity.

You will show courage by embracing new ways of working and doing the right thing by the people you care for, including speaking up when you have concerns.

The post holder will be required to perform a range of routine and non-routine tasks within the mortuary, following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) including the Pathology Quality Policy to provide support to the mortuary manager in order to ensure a high quality service.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.