MORTUARY ATTENDANT

MORTUARY ATTENDANT

 VACANCY

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons to fill the following position at the North-Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA). 

MORTUARY ATTENDANT 

The incumbent will be responsible for the managing and executing routine functions pertaining to the care and custody of corpses.

Main Responsibilities: 

• Receives and register all corpses brought to the mortuary.
• Maintains a register for the movement of corpses.
• Cleans bodies and place in storage with appropriate identification.
• Delivers bodies to relatives or agents on the presentation of validated identification and death certificate.
• Prepares all necessary instruments, containers, solutions and materials required for the performance of post-mortem examinations.
• Assists the Medical Officers in the performance of autopsies by preparing and manipulating bodies for the autopsies (e.g. opening any part of the body for examination, passing instruments, stitching up the washing the bodies).
• Prepares organs for histopathology i.e. weigh and record organs and label specimens for the Laboratory.
• Maintains the sanitary conditions of the Mortuary.
• Checks equipment in the Mortuary to ensure that they are functional and refer where necessary, inclusive of temperature monitoring.
• Conducts non-technical tasks to assist laboratory staff and Medical Officers to effectively perform their duties.
• Prepares operational/functional reports.
• Complies with stringent policies, procedures and work practices.
• Ensures that defined work targets are effectively achieved.
• Performs manual tasks relative to operating equipment and loading, unloading and transportation of storeroom materials.
• Maintains and sterilizes the mortuary environment and equipment.
• Update Laboratory Management daily/weekly on status of unclaimed corpses and outstanding.
• Performs other related duties as directed by the organisational relationship.

Minimum Qualifications, Training and Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) O’Level passes, two (2) of which should be English Language and Mathematics.
• A course or certification in Mortuary Science.
• At least one (1) year in a similar job function.

*Certificates acquired at foreign universities MUST be supported by certified transcripts as well as evidence that the completed programme is accredited in Trinidad and Tobago.

All applications should be submitted with a cover letter, a detailed Curriculum Vitae, copies of relevant certificates, birth certificate, a police certificate of good character, a contact number and two (2) testimonials by March 27, 2023 and addressed (with the name of the position applied for, clearly labelled, on the outside of the envelope and the cover letter). To:

Office of the General Manager, Human Resources

North-Central Regional Health Authority

Building # 39, Third Floor

Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex

Champs Fleurs

Unsuitable/late applications will not be acknowledged.