Funeral Service Operative

3 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Dignity Funerals Full time

**Funeral Service Operative (Coroner Support)**

**Fixed term contract **until 31st October 2023**
**R Davies & Son Funeral Directors, Bristol**
**£25,513.36 per annum + on-call ancillary payments**
**38.33 hours per week + on-call (**a break down of the working pattern is detailed below**)**
**Accruing 22 - 25 days holiday + bank holidays | Sick pay eligibility after 12-month qualifying period | Life Assurance 2 x salary| Pension Scheme**

At Dignity, we are proud to work in a unique industry. We succeed by helping people through difficult times with compassion, respect, openness, and care.

We offer a range of challenging and rewarding roles for caring individuals across the funeral profession and we continually invest in our staff, premises, and vehicles so that we can ensure clients and their loved ones receive the highest standard of care. Every day, we want to exceed our customers’ expectations, and we aim to do this by persistently delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people.

**At R. Davies & Son Funeral Directors, Bristol, we feel honoured that families just like yours have allowed us to help them during the most difficult of times. If you have lost a loved one, we are here for you too.**

R. Davies & Son Funeral Directors are looking for a dedicated, professional, and empathetic individual to join our committed and collaborative team as a Funeral Service Operative. In addition, please be advised that our Funeral operative will be supporting our branches specifically with coroner contract duties.

Our values: Professional, Compassion, Respect & Knowledge form the basis of all our interactions and recognising this, you will be giving back to families in a critical time, whilst ensuring that their loved ones are treated with the utmost respect and dignity.

Alongside a highly collaborative, supportive team, we will give you the room to stretch and develop within the industry. With both training and learning opportunities, our dedicated Learning and Development team and management team will ensure that you are delivered full training to confidently perform this role and will also promote your progression. Alongside this, Dignity Plc really believes in our people, so you will also have access to a wide range of Mental and Financial Well-being tools, access to financial support, and a broad range of benefits

**What Will I Be Doing as a Funeral Service Operative?**

As a Funeral Service Operative, you will be at the very heart and focal point of our business, persistently delivering consistently high levels of client services to the deceased and their families.

**The working pattern, **on a weekly basis**, for this job position is as below

Monday
- Friday from 6 am - 2pm

Mon
- Friday from 2pm to 10pm

Mon to Friday from 10pm - 6am

In addition to the above, the Funeral Service operative has to **participate in the on-call rota which occurs every 1 weekend in 4. ***

Other duties will include:

- Bring or transfer the deceased on behalf of the coroner. (**main duty**)
- Preparing and ensuring the cleanliness of vehicles.
- Aid with bringing the deceased into our care.
- Aid with washing and dressing the deceased.
- Being part of the funeral service by bearing the coffin and driving company vehicles.
- Assisting the Funeral Director with pre-funeral checks including route planning and address checking.

**What Do I Need?**
- A full UK driving licence
- Good level of physical fitness, as this role will involve heavy lifting duties
- The necessary documentation for a basic DBS, reference & driving licence check.
- Pride in your appearance, ensuring you are always professional
- A caring and empathetic nature
- The determination to deliver excellent client services

**Advantageous**:

- Previous experience in the industry, though this is not required, as full training will be provided.

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**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement**

Our Vision is to connect with our clients, colleagues, company and communities based on our principles whilst celebrating our differences.

We aim to empower leaders and colleagues to seek out and understand new voices and perspectives; to be vocal about inequity and exclusion, and take decisive, informed and bold action to promote inclusion and belonging.

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