Funeral Service Arranger

2 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Dignity Funerals Full time

Funeral Service Arranger

Full time, permanent
Barclays Funeral Directors, Edinburgh
£22,841.61 per annum

38.3 hours per week, 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
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.

About our Corstorphine funeral home.

Barclays Funeral Directors are here to help you arrange a funeral service befitting your loved one. Whether you are choosing the perfect flowers, or picking out a memorial, we are here to support you at every step.

Our dedicated funeral professionals will work closely with you to plan each detail of the service, making all of the arrangements on your behalf. You can choose the different aspects of your loved one's farewell at our warm and welcoming funeral home.

Our funeral home is located in Corstorphine, though we are easy access from nearby parts of Edinburgh, including South Gyle, East Craigs, Clermiston and Carrick Knowe.

Barclays 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.

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