To participate in the day-to-day duties of Cambridge University Hospital mortuary under the guidance of the Mortuary team, providing a safe and efficient service to our patients and their families.
To receipt and release all patients from CUH mortuary, ensuring dignity is maintained throughout their length of stay.
To arrange and facilitate viewing appointments, accompanying bereaved relatives into the Woodland Suite and ensuring next of kin wishes are adhered to.
To work as part of the post‑mortem team, preparing patients for examination, assisting the Pathologist and general cleaning and disinfection.
Responsibilities
* Receive patients, including paediatric, from the Hospital, community and other Hospitals, ensuring wristband identification and all legal documents are accurately completed; measure and list all patients, recording any valuables or personal effects and ensuring they are stored securely.
* Record all patient storage and post‑mortem data on Epic, actioning requests from Funeral Directors and liaise with Bereavement Care, Medical Examiners Team, Chaplaincy, HM Coroner, Brain Banks as required.
* Suitably prepare and place deceased adults, children, infants or foetuses for viewing in the Woodland Suite, with special attention to individual and cultural religious beliefs; accompany bereaved relatives and friends into the Woodland Suite, sensitively support, answer queries or concerns and obtain appropriate contact details if required.
* Release and accurately document all movements of patients in and out of the department, obtaining appropriate paperwork and signatures as required; under guidance from the APT team, ensure all tissue and/or organs have been reunited with the deceased as instructed by the next of kin and consent provided.
* Prepare bodies for post‑mortem examination, including undressing patients, checking identification and recording property.
* Prepare post‑mortem tables and dissection areas as required by the APT team and Pathologists and assist with general cleaning and disinfection of the post‑mortem room and equipment, re‑stocking consumables when required.
Working Hours
Monday – Friday 07:30 – 16:00.
Benefits
* Development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries.
* Reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site; free Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites and the route to and from Cambridge train station.
* Subsidised cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
* Hot food available 24/7 on CUH campus at a reduced cost for colleagues.
* Purpose‑created colleague‑only café, free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge.
* Flexible arrangements may include part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.
Equal Opportunities
We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
This advert closes on Tuesday 26 May 2026.
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