Role Purpose

• To assist the Environmental Health and Trading Standards Service in managing the Public Mortuary based in Poplar High Street, London E14.
• To deliver a joined-up response to the Coroner’s Service and to assist with discharging the Council’s duty in relation to Public Health funerals.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

• Carry out casework, and assist the pathologist in post-mortems and forensic cases, including keeping records, administrative arrangements for the
• Undertake casework of a high profile or complicated nature as necessary and assist the pathologist in post-mortems and forensic cases.
• Maintain a comprehensive system of monitoring and reporting of performance against targets.
• Be able to work out of hours
• After a post-mortem, the post holder will help to reconstruct and clean the body ready for storage or release to an undertaker.
• In addition, you will manage the Parish Funerals process.

Requirements

You will need to demonstrate the following skills:

1. Experience of continuing professional development within the Mortuary Service.

2. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

3. Well organised, with good administrative and computer skills.

4. The post holder will work a 35 hour week and will participate in the out of hour’s rota.

In addition, you will need to have the following qualification:

• Diploma in Anatomical Pathology Technology (or equivalent).

Additional Details

If you wish to discuss this opportunity further, please contact David Tolley - Head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards on 0207 364 6724 or Ed Farrelly Team Manager on 07912 480 686.

Enhanced DBS check will be required.

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

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