Mortuary Technician

About the role

Halcome Management Services is seeking a dynamic, customer‑focused Mortuary Technician for the new Bank Hospital in Accra, Ghana. The role involves receiving and releasing bodies, supporting post‑mortem examinations, and providing compassionate assistance to relatives of the deceased.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain mortuary cleanliness, safety and equipment efficiency.
• Accept, store and release bodies in accordance with proper conditions and protocols.
• Prepare bodies for post‑mortem examinations and restore them after autopsy.
• Assist with organ removal for research, transplants or donation as directed by medical staff.
• Label and handle specimens for histology, photography or teaching purposes.
• Provide sympathetic liaison with relatives and adhere to customer service standards.
• Perform specialised techniques such as removal of temporal bones, brain and spinal cord.
• Coordinate stock of consumables, reagents and maintain document control.
• Support high‑risk post‑mortems, ensuring strict health‑and‑safety procedures.
• Assist in training junior staff and participate in incident investigations.

Required profile

• Diploma in Anatomical Pathology or an equivalent qualification.
• Membership of a relevant professional body.

Required skills

• Specimen handling and labelling.
• Organ removal, restoration and donation processing.
• Photography of gross specimens.
• Stock control of mortuary consumables.