Mortuary Assistant

Job Title: Mortuary Assistant

Grade: Band 4

Ward/Dept: Mortuary

Trust: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Location: Croydon University Hospital

Hours: 37.5 hours per week including potential weekends

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is part of the National Health Service (NHS) and was formed in July 2010 with the integration of Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust with Croydon Community Health Services.

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.

CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.

Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.

Experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after for people of all ages across Croydon and our Children’s Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.

The emergency care doctors and nurses have also teamed up with local GPs to run a seamless network of urgent care services across the borough, including booked appointments with a GP available seven days a week.

The mortuary has an HTA license and provides secure storage for all hospital deaths and a post-mortem service. It deals with consented hospital post-mortems

The mortuary works closely alongside the Bereavement Office, which manages issuing Medical Certificate of Cause Death and facilitates the completion of cremation paperwork. The bereavement staff also work closely with the families, returning property and valuables, and liaising with the mortuary to arrange viewings where requested of the deceased. It is located externally next to the ED Department, via Mayday Road entrance.

During the ED rebuild project the only access to Mortuary is via Crossland Road - located off London Road opposite Boots opticians

Responsibilities include:

• To run a safe, secure, effective and comprehensive mortuary and post mortem service.
• Ensure all deceased are treated with respect and dignity at all times.
• The transfer of deceased across the hospital site.
• To engage in general mortuary cleaning, maintaining scrupulous cleanliness, and good hygiene in the mortuary and refrigeration areas.
• To participate in the on-call rota

To be successful in applying for this role you will need:

• Full UK driving licence
• IT Literate
• Standard DBS Check
• Manuel Handling skills

Why NHS Professionals?

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: -

• Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!
• First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
• Dedicated consultants
• Flexible working options
• Free DBS and free training
• Build holiday allowance
• Support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime on 03330 407552
• Stakeholder pension scheme

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £14.09 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Thornton Heath, CR7 7YE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 60025