ABOUT THE WEST REGIONAL FORENSIC CENTER

The $13 million West Tennessee Regional Forensic OTHER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Center (WTRFC) includes 32,000 square feet of • Accredited by the National Association of Medical operational space, and is located in Memphis, the Examiners since 1978 second largest city in Tennessee, with a population of more than 653,000. The office is centrally located near • On-staff forensic anthropologist certified by the downtown in the heart of the Medical District. American Board of Forensic Anthropology • Consulting odontologist certified by the American The WTRFC performs approximately 1,000 autopsies Board of Forensic Odontology per year for 13 counties west of the . • Lodox eXero-dr (March 2018) with integrated PACS The center encounters a wide variety of cases, (The WTRFC will be the first facility to install the including traumatic deaths, toxicological deaths, newest full-body x-ray technology) and natural deaths. Affiliation with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Department • 8 ABMDI registered medicolegal death investigators of Pathology, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and • 7 experienced autopsy technicians Methodist University Hospital allows consultations in • 5 board certified forensic pathologists many pathology subspecialties, including pediatric pathology, neuropathology, and all of the surgical • Teaching institution with a forensic pathology pathology subspecialties, as well as access to medical fellowship program, rotating pathology residents, microbiology and clinical chemistry. and a summer preceptorship program for first-year medical students Just a Few Reasons to Choose 901

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JOB SUMMARY/ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: initiative, trains Death Investigators in obtaining family The Lead Investigator plans, organizes, and directs the consent, collecting information and records, obtaining training and operational activities of Medicolegal and shipping samples, and maintaining a reporting Death Investigators in the investigation of sudden, database. violent, unexpected, and suspicious deaths that fall • Oversees the maintenance of scene-response under the jurisdiction of the Shelby County Medical vehicles. Examiner and the West TN Regional Forensic Center. This position is also responsible for assisting the • Reports maintenance issues in the office affecting Administrator with the safe, orderly, and efficient day- operations, informs leadership, and coordinates to-day operations of the office. repairs. • Performs medicolegal death investigations within DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Shelby County that investigations adhere to agency • Develops and implements office policy and policies and procedures and national standards (e.g. procedures and assures said policies/procedures are NAME, ABMDI). properly executed. • Performs other related duties as assigned. • Addresses complaints from internal and external sources and acts as a liaison between forensic REQUIREMENTS: pathologists, outside agencies, and staff members. Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study. Five (5) years • Maintains a quality assurance program for review of of related experience. (Prior supervisory experience casework as required by the National Association of preferred) Board registered Diplomate with the American Medical Examiners (NAME). Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI.) (Preferred at time of hire, but is required after one year). • Assists the Administrator with recruitment, candidate

interviewing, hiring, initial and recurrent training, BENEFITS: supervision, discipline, and termination of Medicolegal Death Investigators. • Health or Health Savings CDHP (with/without wellness) • Dental • Provides work direction on work assignments and • Vision casework for Medicolegal Death Investigators and • Life Insurance: Basic and Optional Term ensures all investigations adhere to agency policies • Long-term Disability and procedures and national standards (e.g. NAME, • Short-term Disability ABMDI). • Optional Accidental Death Insurance • Ensures follow-up casework and requests from • Flexible Spending Accounts forensic pathologists are carried out and completed • Retirement: 401k, 403b, and 457b in a timely manner. • Educational Assistance: Employee, Eligible Spouse, • Oversees Death Investigators application process to and Dependent gain and maintain registry status in the American • Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Longevity Pay, Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. (ABMDI.) and Paid Holidays • Oversees the process of filing electronic death certificates via the State of TN VRISM system. TO APPLY: • Assists Pathologists with completing death certificate Follow the job link at uthsc.edu/forensic-center. information, affidavits to change information, and filing delayed diagnosis reports. The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA/V institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. • Oversees the Sudden Death in the Young (SDY)

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