This occupation is discovered within the loss of life care business, usually inside funeral organisations, NHS and personal hospitals, Universities, Faculties of Anatomy, personal and public mortuaries.
A Funeral Mortuary Technician prepares, attire and encoffins the deceased, guaranteeing that they’re cared for and introduced with dignity and respect consistent with spiritual and cultural necessities.
An Anatomical Pathology Technologist assists with post-mortems, evisceration and dissection, elimination of organs and tissue retrieval, and reconstruction of the deceased following autopsy.
The broad objective of the occupation for each choices is to make sure the efficient operation of the mortuary and to help colleagues in offering dignified care of the deceased.
Of their day by day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with inner and exterior stakeholders for instance, the deceased, kinfolk, funeral administrators, embalmers, crematoria, cemeteries, funeral arrangers, funeral service operatives, drivers, embalmers, docs, police, coroners, regulatory businesses (for instance, Human Tissue Authority), spiritual/cultural leaders, bereavement providers, midwives, commerce organisations, hospital and care residence employees, suppliers, managers.
An worker on this occupation might be liable for three broad areas of labor:
Mortuary technicians work as a part of a crew in both a funeral enterprise, NHS or personal hospital, College, College of Anatomy, personal or public mortuary. They usually work set hours, nonetheless they could often work unsociable hours if required by the enterprise.
Anatomical pathology technologist
Embalming assistant
Mortuary assistant
Mortuary technician
KSBs
Information
K1: Business requirements, laws and laws referring to mortuary procedures and governance
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K2: Organisational insurance policies, protocols and commonplace working procedures, methods and purposes
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K3: The required inventory ranges for consumables and sundries primarily based on scope of observe
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K4: The significance of guaranteeing the Mortuary space is safely arrange
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K5: The identification and prevention of additional deterioration and decomposition of the deceased and the method to escalate points
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K6: The significance of an infection management and methods to stop and management the unfold of an infection inside the office
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K7: The dangers and management of chemical publicity
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K8: The implications of extreme measurement and weight of the deceased and methods to safely deal with the deceased
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K9: Danger assessments and the worker’s duties consistent with organisational requirements
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K10: The bounds of personal duties
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K11: The gear accessible to help and mitigate dangers, how and when to utilise the gear and methods to report faults
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K12: How and when to soundly take away medical gear from the deceased
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K13: The implications of implants, when to take away from the deceased and escalation procedures
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K14: The organisation’s databases and methods for recording the journey of the deceased and their care info
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K15: The significance of treating every deceased with dignity and respect always
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K16: The significance of steady skilled growth and methods to analysis alternatives for growth
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K17: Teaching and mentoring strategies
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K18: Strategies of communication
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K19: The significance of and methods to full and course of all related paperwork
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K20: The authorized implications surrounding specialist funeral providers similar to burial, cremation and repatriation
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K21: The person wants of purchasers and relations and the affect that these have on the deceased’s time in mortuary care (similar to: cultural, spiritual, age, gender necessities)
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K22: Mouth and eye closure strategies
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K23: Easy methods to, and the explanations for packing orifices
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K24: Private grooming strategies within the care of the deceased together with beauty utility
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K25: Dressing strategies and rituals within the care of the deceased
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K26: The embalming course of and particular necessities when supporting the embalmer
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K27: The anatomical construction of the human physique
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K28: The physiology of anatomical methods within the human physique
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K29: The construction and life cycles of micro organism, protozoa, fungi and viruses of relevance to human well being
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K30: The process to document and retrieve tissue from a deceased individual
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K31: The necessities for specialist autopsy examinations
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K32: The documentation necessities for autopsy examination consent and subsequent procedures
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K33: The precise necessities when supporting the pathologist
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Expertise
S1: Observe secure working procedures to observe and preserve the protection and hygienic situation of apparatus and mortuary
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S2: Organise the restore and substitute of defective / broken gear if obligatory
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S3: Full all related paperwork for every deceased consistent with organisational system necessities reporting any discrepancies to the suitable individual
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S4: Perform opening checks to make sure mortuary surroundings is secure and prepared to be used
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S5: Perform inventory rotation, management and replenishment consistent with organisational methods and procedures
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S6: Order provides as required inside limits of authority
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S7: Perform right identification of the deceased, checking situation and recording private results and particulars on organisational database/system as required
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S8: Triage the deceased by assessing, prioritising and finishing up preliminary care as obligatory and permitted inside scope of practise
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S9: Full on-going assessments, appearing on and speaking any points arising
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S10: Monitor the accessible areas and talk to line supervisor consistent with organisational procedures
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S11: Full obligatory danger assessments on gear and mortuary surroundings as required consistent with organisational procedures
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S12: Get rid of or return dirty objects in line with laws and organisational procedures
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S13: Perform cleansing and disinfection processes within the care of the deceased in line with shopper needs
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S14: Prioritise workload to satisfy enterprise and shopper calls for
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S15: Reveal the usage of communication strategies, instruments and abilities, adapting method and elegance to go well with the person
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S16: Monitor the progress of the deceased via the mortuary space reporting any points to the suitable individual
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S17: Perform high quality checks at each interplay with the deceased
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S18: Perform cleansing schedule consistent with organisational necessities, reporting any points to the suitable individual
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S19: Help different colleagues inside the mortuary surroundings as and when required
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S20: Apply guide dealing with and secure working practices within the completion of duties
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S21: Put together the deceased for launch and full ultimate high quality checks earlier than the deceased leaves the mortuary
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S22: Monitor the usual of care inside the mortuary, figuring out coaching and growth wants and reporting to the suitable individual
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S23: Determine areas for self-development and preserve steady skilled growth
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S24: Reveal and share greatest observe with the crew
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S25: Prioritise workload contemplating preliminary evaluation of the deceased, enterprise, relations and shopper necessities, timescales and collaborate with the broader crew
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S26: Precisely measure the deceased contemplating measurement and weight implications, talk any considerations to the suitable individual
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S27: Put together the deceased for embalming
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S28: Help the embalmer within the embalming course of
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S29: Perform preparation of the deceased for instance, washing, function setting, orifice packing, dressing, utility of cosmetics, private grooming and any particular particular person necessities respecting spiritual and cultural beliefs
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S30: Implement family-specific and cultural wants and desires
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S31: Perform identification and private impact checks at each interplay with the deceased
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S32: Put together the deceased for autopsy examination
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S33: Perform exterior examination of the deceased
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S34: Perform evisceration and dissection of the deceased underneath the route of supervisory employees
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S35: Perform examination of dissected organs and buildings
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S36: Perform reconstruction of the deceased following autopsy examination
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S37: Perform procedures for tissue retrieval and recording underneath the route of supervisory employees
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Behaviours
B1: Deal with colleagues and the deceased with respect and dignity
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B2: Preserve professionalism always
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B3: Be thoughtful of the various wants of people
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B4: Reveal consideration to element
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B5: Reveal empathy and sensitivity
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B6: Be adaptable and versatile to conditions as they come up
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