Mortuary Manager

Job summary

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled professional person to join the award-winning bereavement, medical examiner & mortuary services team as the Mortuary Manager. Are you a highly organised, compassionate and innovative individual with a strong background in mortuary services and management experience? Are you seeking a challenging leadership role where you can uphold and enhance the care, we provide to all our deceased patients and our bereaved, ensure the efficient operational running of two large mortuaries and lead a team of technicians and technologists to uphold exceptional practices and exceed expectations? As the Mortuary Manager, you will oversee and contribute to the day-to-day operations of our mortuary facilities at both Royal Free Hospital and Barnet Hospital, ensuring the efficient and respectful handling of our deceased patients. You will lead a team of dedicated staff and work closely with funeral directors, bereavement service teams and bereavement midwives to deliver exceptional service to all concerned. As well as patient care, you will lead in the management of fail-safe running of the facilities and all equipment. Your expertise, skill and experience will also enable you to lead and partake in the post-mortem service at the Trust and be a principal developer and provider of ongoing education and training across the Trust as needed.

Main duties of the job

This is an advanced role where the post holder will lead and be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of the Trust-wide Mortuary service. The post holder will work with the senior management teams in the areas of service development, continuity, resilience, staff and budgetary management, liaison with external and internal service users, compliance to all relevant accreditation and regulatory bodies and staff training . There is a significant managerial element to this role however, there is an expectation that the post-holder will take an active involvement in the routine work of the department. The work is varied, complex and requires a high degree of skills and proficiency in all aspects of mortuary work. These include hospital consented, Coroners and possible forensic examinations. The post holder will assist in all aspects of post-mortem examination procedures, the care of all patients, liaising with external and internal service users, developing working relationships with these users and bereaved families. The department is a leader in improving patient care and the development of novel approaches to teaching, training, Care After Death and post-mortem examination. Please Note: The mortuary provides an on-call/out of hours service and the post-holder will lead this on-call service with the Group head of bereavement & mortuary services. This service offers offsite and onsite work as needed.

About us

The successful candidate will work alongside members of the senior manager team, in developing and delivering exemplary services and be vital in the further innovations and enhancements in our service to all those who are part of the journey when a patient dies at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. As a senior member of the team and leader, you will embody the Trust values throughout all you do, living and demonstrating the values and remodelling these vital positive traits and behaviours to your team and the wider Trust population. As a Trust, we at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, know that we have a responsibility and the opportunity to embed the safest possible memory in those who are bereaved and struggling through some of the worst times in life; we have one chance to do this right and we can do this through our passion and absolute determination to serve. The successful post holder will uphold this belief and be an integral member of this award-winning team