Medical Examiner Officer

London, England, United Kingdom

7/18/2025

Position Medical Examiner Officer (MEO)

Grade Band 6

Location North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Hours Full time (37.5 hours)

Responsible to Lead Medical Examiner, Lead MEO & Regional MEO

Accountable to Service Manager – Pathology & Bereavement Services

Key Working Relationships

To support medical examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death. To be a point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and coroner and registration services.

To support Medical Examiners in their role in scrutinising the circumstances and causes of death by.

• acting as an intermediary between the bereaved and clinicians.
• Working with medical examiners in their responsibility for overseeing the death certification process for all deceased patients in the Trust and Enfield and Haringey.
• Participating in the implementation of reforms to improve the processes of death certification and referrals to the Coroner
• Participating in developing protocols, guidelines and policies for the development and delivery of the Medical Examiner Service at North Middlesex University Trust
• To be a senior point of contact and source of advice for relatives of deceased patients, healthcare professionals and Coroner and Registration Services
• establish the circumstances of individual patient deaths by performing a preliminary review of medical records to identify clinical and circumstantial information, for scrutiny by the medical examiner.
• To assist in highlighting cases for assessment by the Structured Judgement Review team (SJR), Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP), Clinical Governance teams and the Learning Disability Review Teams (LeDeR).
• To assist the Medical Examiner in referral of patients to the coroner for further investigation.
  
  

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kathleen Mills Job title: Lead Medical Examiner Officer Email address: [email protected]