Mobile Funeral Service Arranger

Funeral Service Arranger

Part-time, permanent
Gornalls Funeral Directors, Prescot

£13,408.20 Per annum.

22.5 hours per week, Wednesday 1pm-5pm, Thursday+ Friday 9am-5pm and alternate Saturdays 9am-12pm
Accruing 22 - 25 days holiday + bank holidays | Sick pay eligibility after 12-month qualifying period | Life Assurance 2 x salary

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 Gornalls Funeral Directors we have been giving an unparalleled standard of funeral care to Prescot and its surrounding communities since the 1940s. You can find our funeral home on West Street; just off Derby Street and Liverpool Road. Along with Prescot, we serve Whiston, Knowsley, Eccleston, Huyton and Rainford from our other funeral home.

Our funeral home is a charming Victorian building with welcoming flowers and shrubbery outside. The building is part of the heritage of Prescot; before it was purchased by Mr James Gornall, it was the local fire station until the early 1990s.

Gornalls Funeral Directors are looking for a compassionate, dedicated individual to join our team as a Funeral Service Arranger, to advise and support our families when arranging the funeral for a loved one. 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 Arranger?

As a Funeral Service Arranger, you will be one of the very first points of contact for our families. You are going to be the coordinator that supports our families, arranges the funerals and works alongside our teams to ensure that the funerals are delivered at the highest standard, whilst also meeting the personable requests of the families.

Other duties will include:
Create a welcoming, safe and caring atmosphere
Arrange funerals according to Company guidelines ensuring that the full range of services and products are offered, thereby addressing the needs of the client
Maintain excellent service to client’s who telephone or call the branch
Be available for clients to visit the deceased during office hours and out of hours by arrangement to company standards and guidelines

What Do I Need?

A Full UK Driving Licence.
Previous experience within a Customer Service or Administrative position.
Proactive approach and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
Comfortable coming into contact with the deceased through the Chapel of Rest visits.
Presentable at all times, acting with professional conduct and showing empathy.
Excellent attention to detail is essential.
A passion for customer service.

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.