Job overview

The Royal Oldham Hospital Mortuary Department is a newly built and innovatively designed mortuary providing comprehensive Mortuary, Post-mortem Services to the four hospitals of the Trust, Community deaths for the Manchester North Coroner, Forensic service for the Greater Manchester Coroners and the Home Office.

The Salford Royal Hospital Mortuary Department is a newly built innovatively designed mortuary providing comprehensive Mortuary, Post-mortem Services for the Salford Royal Hospital and the Salford community deaths for the Bolton Coroner, Neurology postmortem service for the Greater Manchester Coroners and the Home Office.

Both departmens are HTA licensed; and are UKAS accredited.

Main duties of the job

You will act as a Mortuary Assistant to provide a continuous and comprehensive Mortuary Service within the Trust Mortuaries. 

You will assist in the day to day provision of a high quality, cost effective Mortuary Service and will assist in the development of the service in line with service objectives.

You will be required to work under the indirect supervision of the Mortuary Manager and as a Mortuary Assistant, you are expected to work as part of a team within all specialities of the Mortuary and to rotate between sites.

You will be responsible for the delegated tasks and performing the work to the required standards. You will be cover a range of duties which includes receipt and release, dealing with bereaved relatives, facilitating viewings, general cleaning duties and stock control (this list is not exhaustive).

Unfortunately, this role does not meet the criteria required to qualify for sponsorship.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.