Coroner’s Officer – Vantage House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
We are looking for a professional, compassionate and highly organised individual to join the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Coroner Service as a Coroners Officer.
Working as part of a supportive team, you will manage investigations into sudden, unexplained and unnatural deaths on behalf of the Coroner. You will act as a key point of contact for bereaved families, medical professionals, police officers, legal representatives and other partner agencies, ensuring that investigations are progressed efficiently, sensitively and in accordance with legal requirements.
This is a varied and rewarding role that combines investigation, case management, stakeholder engagement and court administration.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Vicky Webb Coroner Service Manager, Vicky.Webb@Cambridgeshire.gov.uk
About you
You will be:
- An excellent communicator with the ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of people.
- Compassionate, resilient and able to work sensitively with bereaved families and those affected by traumatic circumstances.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage a complex workload and competing priorities.
- Confident gathering, analysing and presenting information accurately.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change quickly.
- A strong team player who is flexible and willing to work across different areas of the service.
- Competent in maintaining accurate records and using a range of IT systems.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers…