Work Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 1:00pm (20 hours/week)
Posted Date
12/01/2025
Salary Range $27.71 - 36.6 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
27041
As an Autopsy & Decedent Affairs Coordinator on the Decedent Affairs team, you will play a key role in supporting our Autopsy and Decedent Affairs services and ensuring accurate documentation and coordination. In this role, you will:
•Serve as the primary administrative liaison with the Coroner’s Office, public administrator, law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and mortuaries.
•Record and maintain hospital death information, including processing death certificates and completing autopsy case documentation through final disposition.
•Assist physicians in completing all required decedent-related forms, reports, and documentation accurately and in a timely manner.
•Provide respectful care for the deceased and ensure all remains leave the Medical Center in appropriate and satisfactory condition.
•Arrange transportation of outside autopsy cases to UCLA, working closely with internal departments and external partners as needed.
•Select, catalog, store, and maintain anatomical specimens for teaching and research purposes.
•Verify that autopsy permissions and consent forms are complete and compliant with legal and institutional requirements.
•Coordinate autopsy scheduling, notifying all relevant medical teams, hospital services, and interested clinical staff.
Note: This is a part-time position (20 hours per week).
Salary Range: $27.71 - $36.60/hour
•High school diploma or equivalent (e.g. HiSET or GED)
•Ability to work in sensitive situations with discretion, professionalism, and respect for confidentiality.
For more than half a century, UCLA Health has provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.
Comprised of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA West Valley Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group with its wide-reaching system of primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the region, UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.
Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, and our hospitals are among the best in the country. Consistently ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the nation and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment, and bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.
