Coroners Investigation Officer

Role Responsibility

Do you have an enquiring mind, excellent communications skills and a positive team work ethic?

Are you resilient and composed when working under pressure with competing demands?

If so, Kent County Council is currently recruiting someone like you to join the Kent & Medway Coroner Service Team as Coroner’s Investigation Officer. As a Coroner’s Investigation Officer you will work under judicial direction of the Coroner, within statutory frameworks, national & local policy and procedural guidelines to provide sufficient evidence to enable coroners to fulfil their judicial function. This will require you to use your initiative to make all relevant enquiries into the circumstances surrounding deaths of unknown cause, violent death, and deaths in state detention.

You will need to apply methodical questioning, investigative procedures and fundamental medical knowledge to gather, evaluate and synthesize information to produce a case report for the coroner. At the same time you will work closely with bereaved people performing a family liaison role with a calm, ethical and empathic approach, at what may be a difficult and distressing time, ensuring they are kept informed and regularly updated, throughout the process.

You will have experience in a coroner's office or in nursing, paramedicine, biomedical, or another investigative role. This crucial and challenging role is office based in Maidstone; however the ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day is essential as you will be required to attend mortuaries for identifications and forensic post-mortems and may occasionally be required, exceptionally, to attend a scene of death, which may be outside of normal working hours.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. Please Note: 1. Please read the applicant Information and application guidance notes before completing the questions on your application Form. 2. This post is office based, full time and the hours are 0900 to 1700 on Monday to Friday. 3. As part of the recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be asked to attend a 1 day on-line Assessment Center on either the 25th or 26th September 2024. 4. Successful candidates will also be asked to complete an on-line assessment (psychometric profile) which will be validated by a 90 minute (maximum) phone call before an interview. 5. Interviews will take place in person at Oakwood House, week commencing 30th September 2024 Please note that the dates maybe subject to change. If you have applied for this role in the previous 6 month your application will not be considered.

Contact Details

For further information please contact: Julia Young or Simon Cawse on: CoronerServiceManager@kent.gov.uk

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.