Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Rotherham NHS FT Town Rotherham Salary £24,937 - £26,598 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2025 23:59 Interview date 09/12/2025
Mortuary Support Officer
NHS AfC: Band 3
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
We’re looking for a professional, experienced, suitably qualified, and compassionate individual to join our very busy, highly skilled Mortuary Team.
Across SYB Mortuary Services, we operate to high standards, in accordance with the HTA requirements, codes of practice and departmental standards and protocols. We regularly prepare for our HTA inspections by maintaining high standards of quality by conducting audits, formulating risk assessments/ SOPs and investigating incidents.
If you’re passionate about delivering high-quality Mortuary services, have the essential knowledge and experience, and want to work in an innovative, supportive learning environment, we’d love to hear from you.
For all roles within our Mortuary Services, you will need to be highly motivated, compassionate, understand the importance of maintaining confidentiality, have excellent communication/interpersonal skills, be well organised, be able to take direction from the Mortuary Manager, remain professional during post-mortems and present to clinical staff.
Main duties of the job
As a Mortuary Support Officer, you will assist with delivering a sensitive and caring service for bereaved people, partners, visitors and stakeholders on behalf of SYB Mortuary Service.
You will support the Mortuary Manager and colleagues in accordance with HTA requirements and with relevant legislation, guiding principles and codes of practice.
On a daily basis you will assist with coordinating service delivery to ensure mortuary provision is maintained during any refurbishment and upgrades to the facility. Assist with the admission and release of patients and update all the relevant electronic and paper-based systems to meet the HTA regulations and guiding principles.
If you have the knowledge and experience for this vital role, and the drive and passion to support colleagues to maintain our very high standards we want to hear from you.
The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (SYB) Pathology Partnership fully integrates the pathology services delivered on behalf of the Partner Trusts within the Integrated Care System (ICS) footprint; Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust.
The Pathology Partnership will provide the best possible service for patients and clinicians; improving health outcomes, delivering quality and efficiency benefits and ensuring a sustainable workforce.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
STHFT operates with a budget of £1.2 bn, has a workforce of over 18,500 employees, covers five hospital sites, provides care from over forty community settings, and has an excellent reputation for research.
As an organisation we value and respect our staff and the community we serve. We provide excellent staff benefits; this includes commitment to professional development but also many initiatives to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The partnership will ensure SYBP improves health outcomes, drives research and innovation, delivers efficiencies and ensures a sustainable workforce, providing job satisfaction and career progression opportunities for all staff.
The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Histopathology department provides a complete analytical and diagnostic Histopathology service across the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw region. Mortuary services lie within the histopathology specialty and provide comprehensive care to patients who pass away within the hospital and / or community setting.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
This vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English at level C/4 or above
* Level 3 qualification e.g. NVQ, 2 A-Levels, Apprenticeship or equivalent working experience in mortuary or funeral directors.
Experience
* Ability to follow and work to Standard Operating Procedures and Policy
* Experience with a range of Mortuary techniques
* Previous NHS experience or funeral director experience
Skills and Knowledge
* Keyboard and basic IT skills
* Have an awareness of Health & Safety issues
* Effective Communication skills, written and oral
* Evidence of effective time management skills and with a methodical approach
Personal Qualities
* Commitment to complete and maintain Mandatory training and required Mortuary competences
* Ability to plan and prioritise allocated work
Values and Behaviours (PROUD)
* Patients first - Understanding of how laboratory services are part of the patient pathway and impact on patient care
* Respectful – Developed interpersonal skills and ability to communicate at all levels
* Ownership – Understand the need to accept responsibility for own actions and ensure accuracy and attention to detail
* Unity – Ability to work as part of a team
* Delivery – Ability to work within defined timescales
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here .
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Name Sarah Dove Job title Mortuary Manager Email address Sarah.Dove5@nhs.net Telephone number 0114 2714308 Additional information Adam Brown - Deputy Mortuary Manager, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust 01709 424274
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