Anatomical Pathology Technician

• Ensure all duties are carried out in compliance with the Human tissue authority (HTA) codes of practice. • Carry out procedures with regards to receipt, storage and release of the deceased completing associated documentation in compliance with current policies. • Ensure all unidentified deceased are appropriately identifiable once identity has been established. • Liaise with the Trust Bereavement Officers, assisting them in the functions of the service dealing with bereaved families. • Assist, the Coroners Officers and carry out their instructions with regards to all deceased bodies in their remit. • To assist with hospital postmortems on the instruction of the Consultant Histopathologists or other medical staff. • To assist with postmortems carried out at the instruction of H M Coroner under the arrangements made with Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospital. • To perform, under supervision of the Consultant Pathologist, relevant postmortem procedures on patients which are in an advanced state of mechanical disruption or decomposition/infestation. • To prepare the deceased for viewing in a sensitive and respectful manner demonstrating awareness of religious requirements subject to individual risk assessment • Carry out surgical evisceration, and patient reconstruction processes in the postmortem suite in accordance with mortuary policies to enable identification for Police, viewings for relatives and dignified collection from funeral directors. Job description Job responsibilities • Ensure all duties are carried out in compliance with the Human tissue authority (HTA) codes of practice. • Carry out procedures with regards to receipt, storage and release of the deceased completing associated documentation in compliance with current policies. • Ensure all unidentified deceased are appropriately identifiable once identity has been established. • Liaise with the Trust Bereavement Officers, assisting them in the functions of the service dealing with bereaved families. • Assist, the Coroners Officers and carry out their instructions with regards to all deceased bodies in their remit. • To assist with hospital postmortems on the instruction of the Consultant Histopathologists or other medical staff. • To assist with postmortems carried out at the instruction of H M Coroner under the arrangements made with Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospital. • To perform, under supervision of the Consultant Pathologist, relevant postmortem procedures on patients which are in an advanced state of mechanical disruption or decomposition/infestation. • To prepare the deceased for viewing in a sensitive and respectful manner demonstrating awareness of religious requirements subject to individual risk assessment • Carry out surgical evisceration, and patient reconstruction processes in the postmortem suite in accordance with mortuary policies to enable identification for Police, viewings for relatives and dignified collection from funeral directors.