Medical Examiner

Go back The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

The closing date is 06 February 2026

We are looking for a passionate medic with critical thinking skills. If you are looking for stimulating work outside of your clinical role, this may be the post for you.

Being a Medical Examiner is interesting, involving and actively engages new learning every day.

It also gives you the opportunity and time to explain to the bereaved the cause of death of their loved one, but also what occurred, why, what led to it. This offers them great relief often.

We also have the opportunity to observe areas where improvements can be made and to raise these to the relevant departments.

4 hours a week during which the ME will scrutinise hospital and community deaths that are referred in. Concluding the cause of death and formulating an MCCD with the Qualified Attending Practitioner. Communicating with the bereaved, a role shared with the Medical Examiner Officers.

We are in a good position to identify excellence in care as well as areas that need improvement, and are able to raise these issues to the Trust.

There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

Please see detailed job description from the RCPath attached previously.

MEs must be experienced NHS clinicians, qualified for at least 5 years. They also need to have completed the RCPath ME training, which involves online training and face-to-face training. These are easily accessible through the RCPath website.

• Experience working clinically as an NHS doctor.

• Knowledge of local and national clinical governance systems and an understanding of how the ME can work collaboratively to improve patient safety by identifying sub-optimal clinical and organisational performance.
• Ability to identify available data sources to support the detection and analysis of concerns and to recognise gaps in available knowledge.
• Ability to identify and disseminate examples of good practice amongst relevant colleagues.

• Consultant grade Medical practitioner registered and licensed to practise in the UK by the General Medical Council (GMC); and has been on the register for the five years or more leading up to the appointment
• Have successfully completed the mandatory components of the national online Medical Examiner (ME) curriculum and face-to-face training.
• MEs should have up-to-date knowledge of medical conditions, treatments and causes of death and an understanding of the relevant legislation and processes associated with death certification processes.
• Ability to manage and comply with sensitive information-based processes under tight timescales with a proportionate approach.
• Knowledge of the special requirements of various faith groups and respect for equality and diversity

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.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum pro rata