Ambulance Funeral Service Operative

2 weeks ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Dignity Funerals Full time

**Ambulance Funeral Service Operative**

Full-time / Permanent

Ken Gregory & Sons Funeral Directors / Sutton In Ashfield

£21, 333 per annum + 15% shift allowance + on-call ancillary payments

37.5 hours per week // Shift Pattern (Monday - Friday 06:00 am - 14:00 pm/ 14:00 pm - 22:00 // 22:00 pm - 06:00 am)

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. We aim to do this by persistently delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people.

**We are Ken Gregory & Sons Funeral Directors in Sutton in Ashfield. We believe that a funeral service should be a meaningful celebration of life, and we want to help every family in our local community celebrate the life of their loved one.**

Ken Gregory & Sons Funeral Directors are looking for a professional and compassionate individual to join our collaborative and dedicated team as an Ambulance Funeral Service Operative. 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, dedicated, and supportive management 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 aim to 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 An Ambulance Funeral Service Operative?**

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

Other duties will include:

- Deliver consistently high levels of client service to the deceased and their families
- Participate in the on-call arrangements and bring the deceased into our care
- Preparing and ensuring the cleanliness of vehicles
- Support with bringing the deceased into our care
- 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.
- Previous experience in 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)

**Advantageous**:

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

Dignity Plc is an equal opportunity employer where we celebrate diversity across our business. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees; therefore, all our employment decisions are assessed based on qualifications, merit and business need.

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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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