Band 3 Mortuary Assistant

Job summary

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly professional person to join the award-winning bereavement, medical examiner & mortuary services team as an Mortuary Assistant.

Are you a highly organised, compassionate and innovative individual with a strong interest in mortuary services? Are you seeking a challenging role where you can uphold and enhance the care we provide to all our deceased patients and our bereaved and uphold exceptional practices and exceed expectations? As the Mortuary Assistant, you will support 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 care of our deceased patients. You will work closely with a team of dedicated mortuary team, bereavement and medical examiner service, bereavement midwives, spiritual care and funeral directors, amongst others, to deliver exceptional service to all concerned. As well as patient care, you will support in the running of the facilities and all equipment.

Main duties of the job

Mortuary services have a unique opportunity for someone who has a genuine enthusiasm for care after death and is keen to work within mortuary services as Mortuary Assistant.

This is a newly established post with the opportunity to support the bereavement, mortuary and medical examiner team and would suit someone with keen interest to start and/or develop their career in mortuary services.

You will have good technical knowledge of mortuary policy, procedure, and bereavement. As well as a good understanding of health and safety legislation and working in compliance with HTA guidelines.

You will be a resilient individual, you will have the ability to deal with difficult situations and manage sensitive information securely. You will have the ability to take an organised approach to your own workload, working individually and as part of a team, whilst dealing with conflicting priorities and ensure a patient care focused approach.

This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

About us

Continual growth of our service means we have a vacancy for a Mortuary Assistant; the successful candidate would join our small team of two mortuary techs, an APT and the mortuary manager.

The successful candidate will work alongside the mortuary manager and the mortuary 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 member of the team, you will embody the Trust values throughout all you do, living and demonstrating the values and remodelling these vital positive traits and behaviours to our team and the wider Trust population.

As a Trust, we at the Mortuary Services of the 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.