“I am an Anatomical Pathology Technologist and I’ve worked for the Trust in the mortuary for nine years.

"Day to day duties include performing any post mortems for the coroner, carrying out any forensic post mortems in our area and any hospital post mortems.  We care for the deceased, including preparing them for family viewings and releasing bodies to funeral directors.  This includes talking to funeral directors to arrange paperwork for funerals so bodies can be released and talking to families to arrange viewings and to give advice on funeral arrangements.

"I am part of an organisation called UK Disaster Victim Identification (UK DVI) which deals with identifying victims of a mass fatality such as terrorism, plane crash, or natural disaster.  My last deployment with the UK DVI team was at the Manchester arena bombing, where I was part of a very large forensic team put together to identify all 22 victims, which was completed in under a week.

"I came to work for the NHS after I was approached by a member of the mortuary staff when I was a funeral director collecting a deceased from the mortuary.  I was asked if I would like to apply to work there and the rest is history.

"The thing I like most about my job is the satisfaction of knowing that I have done the last thing for the deceased, carrying out our final offices before they leave our care.  It’s a very good day if we have no deaths in the hospital overnight and no deceased brought in from the community for the coroner, but sadly this rarely happens.

"The best bit of advice I was ever given was never put off doing or saying anything till tomorrow that you can do or say today and to treat everyone as you would like to be treated yourself."