Coroner's Operations Officer

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Coroner's Operations Officer
• Job Location: Coroners Service
• Salary: £47,573 - £49,590 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Fixed Term
• Duration: 18 months
• Closing Date: 23/04/2023
• Job Requisition Number: 5878
• This post is not open to job share

About The Team & Role

As the Coroner’s Operations Officer you’ll help make a difference to those using the Coroners Service by taking responsibility for the operational management and technical direction of the County’s Mortuary and Coroner's Court Complex. You’ll help make the facility a centre of excellence and a venue which displays care, support and sensitivity to those who have cause to use it.

We need you to ensure the service runs smoothly on a day-to-day basis and manage our exceptional team of Coroner's Officers, Anatomical Pathology Technicians and Support Staff.

About You

To be successful you will need excellent organisational skills to allow you to prioritise workloads and ensure our service levels are maintained. We need your exceptional interpersonal skills and customer-focused nature to help build collaborative relationships with the service’s contacts externally. You’ll be happy working in an autonomous way with a key focus on meeting our health and safety responsibilities. You ideally be able to bring to the role previous experience of managing or leading a team.

About Us

The Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court is a purpose built facility which brings together all of the services of the Coroner under one roof. This includes a mortuary, post mortem room, observation area and visitors facilities alongside a large court and jury areas. Circa 2,000 deaths are referred to the Coroners service each year with over 300 inquests being overseen by the service in 2022.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following;

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Plus, an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network. Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Job Profile - Coroner's Operations Officer

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.