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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communication and working relationship

 Maintain patient and relative privacy, dignity and respect at all times

·        Ensure positive relative experience in all aspects of after life care

·        Engage and participate as required, in external visits to the Mortuary, ensuring compliance with national quality frameworks (e.g. CQC)

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Analytical and judgement 

·        Ensure that all available options for Tissue Donation are taken, including arranging 3^rd party operatives to come in and facilitate retrieval if required.

·        Responsible and accountable for the release of the deceased to authorised Funeral Directors in accordance with the law and local safety procedures, ensuring the correct identification of the deceased.

·      To report incidents in line with Trust policies.

     To make judgements regarding which techniques to use with the removal of organs, based on different Anatomy and Pathology which may be present.

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Planning and organisation

·       Responsibility for ensuring that Funeral Directors are given the correct certificates required for the disposal and cremation of the body

·        Responsible for the organisation of foetuses for monthly committals at crematorium and arrange collection by contract Funeral Directors.

·        Responsible for organising and participating in an out of hours on call rota

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Responsibility for patient and client care

·        Responsible and accountable for recording and supervising lawful disposal of human tissue, products of conception and police forensic exhibits

     Have knowledge of specialist skills in Anatomical Pathology Technology, including knowledge of different evisceration and reconstruction techniques such as removal of spinal cord and some experience reconstructing trauma cases.

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Policy and service responsibility

·        Ensure continued professional development in-keeping with national practice and guidance

·        Ensure that documentation surrounding consents for Post mortem and Tissue Donation are fully completed and in accordance with the law.

·        Responsible for maintaining Health and Safety, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) and Risk assessments appropriate to the department

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Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources

·         To take a role in maintaining Mortuary equipment by carrying out visual checks and reporting any defects or abnormalities to the Senior APT or Mortuary Manager

·        To decontaminate and provide appropriate documentation for medical devices that need to be serviced by other departments.

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Responsibility for supervision and Leadership

·         Share good practice within the Mortuary, Care Group and Trust wide.

·         Supervise trainee APT’s as required.

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Information technology and administrative duties

·         Responsible for logging, safe storage and return of deceased patients’ property

·         Responsible and accountable for maintaining accurate documentation and record keeping in line with Trust policies and the Royal College of Pathology

·        Responsible for accurate records of the deceased and their property in the mortuary register.

Responsibility for research and development

·        Take part in audits as requested by the Senior APT or Mortuary Manager

·        To facilitate and organise the retrieval of any tissue or organs required in line with our existing Service Level Agreements, such as the removal, packaging and transport of Brain and Spinal cords

Responsibility and accountability

·        Ensure staff, deceased and bereaved relatives’ safety at all times

·        Assist Scenes of Crime Officers with photography and fingerprinting.

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