Medical Examiner Officer

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 27 January 2026

To support the Medical Examiners (ME) in their role scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased general practitioner patients, healthcare professionals, General Practitioners, hospice and practice staff, and HM Coroner and registration services.

To support in the integration and implementation of systems and processes relating to the Medical Examiner role and the national learning from deaths strategy.

This is a hybrid office of bereavement services and medical examiner offices. This post is principally a Medical Examiner Officer role but there is overlap with the Bereavement Officer role.

To work closely with other team members to provide an exemplar service to the Medical Examiners, families of the deceased and the Lead Medical Examiner.

To support the mortality systems of various stakeholders (Trust, GPs, Hospice), by providing relevant data required to ensure internal and external qualitative and quantitative key performance indicators are managed and achieved.

Please see attached Job Description, Person Specification for a detailed outline of job requirements.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Please see attached Job Description, Person Specification for a detailed outline of job requirements.

• Educated to degree level, in coroners office, nursing or other clinical speciality or evidence of study/equivalent practical experience at an advanced level.
• Highly evolved empathetic and self-awareness skills to deal with bereaved families who may have barriers to understanding information due to their grief or disability.
• Computer literate to use multiple IT software for recording personal identifiable data and producing statistical information.
• Completion of mandatory e-LfH MEO training (26 modules).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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