Bank Bereavement Officer - Band 4

Bank Bereavement Officer - Band 4 Redhill, South West England, England

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Full Time Redhill, South West England, England 12.86 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description

The Bereavement Officer communicates and works effectively with a wide variety of people including all grades of doctors and hospital staff, coroner's officers, funeral directors and the bereaved. She/he frequently handles sensitive and emotional situations whilst remaining professional and empathetic at all times. The post-holder has regular contact with clerical and medical staff, deceased patients’ relatives, and other outside agencies including the Coroners Office, General Practitioners and Registrars of Births/Deaths.

Daily duties include contacting ward staff and doctors for completion of necessary documentation after a death of a patient. Answering telephone enquiries, meeting and advising the deceased patients’ representatives with regards to medical certificate of cause of death, registration process, funeral arrangements and any other queries relating to the deceased. Keeping up to date records on the hospital computer systems. Handling patient property. Arranging funerals for patients with no next of kin.

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

  • Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
  • National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
  • We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
  • Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
  • Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Bank Bereavement Officer - Band 4
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk
Redhill, United Kingdom
Michael Wilson
$25 to $50 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Hospital
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
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