The purpose of the Medical Examiner Officer (MEO) role is to support Medical Examiners in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death, and to be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel respected, valued, and able to achieve their potential while receiving the most appropriate and relevant care.
Responsibilities
* Act as an intermediary between the bereaved and clinicians to establish and resolve any concerns relating to a patients death.
* Serve as a source of expertise, advice and knowledge for relatives and healthcare professionals involved in the process.
* Work with medical examiners to aid them in their responsibility for overseeing the death certification process for all deceased patients in the organisation.
* Establish the circumstances of individual patient deaths by performing a preliminary review of medical records to identify clinical and circumstantial information, sourcing additional details where required, for scrutiny by the medical examiner.
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