Funeral Administrator

Funeral Administrator

Location: Peterborough

At Smiths Funeral Directors, we are proud to work in a unique industry, helping people through a difficult time with care, compassion and respect. Every day we want to exceed our clients expectations and provide them with a faultless service from intial contact to all the way through the funeral process.

We are looking for a Maternity Cover Funeral Administrator to join our growing team, working an average of 40 hours per week (plus additional hours where necessary). Previous administration experience is desirable, training will be given on our bespoke systems.

As a Funeral Administrator, we are looking for:

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to respond in a caring and compassionate manner to families we come into contact with.
- Extremely strong administration and organisational skills and be able to spot spelling mistakes and other grammar errors.
- Good Computer literateracy, including MS office software suite (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word). Being able to touch type and have a typing speed of over 50 WPM would be an advantage.
- You should be self-motivated to be able to work alone and with the ability to work productively as part of the wider team, being proactive in supporting our funeral Arranger Team.

Other Duties will include:
Completion of our relevant formal and legal paperwork, sending out letters to all parties to ensure the smooth delivery of each funeral, keepinging the office workspace clean and tidy, occasionally supporting Chapels of Rest, and providing admininstration support to designated Funeral Directors. This will include scanning, dictation and filing.

Please contact us, to discuss this opportunity if more information is required.

Salary range from £20,000 - £24,000 depending on ability and experience

20 Days annual holiday (excluding Bank Holiday)

Start Date can be immediate - and contract will be until September 2025.

Working Hours: 08.30am to 5.00pm

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £20,000.00-£24,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Experience**:

- Administrative: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: SFD/PPS/FAADMINMAT/APRIL