Mobile Embalmer

Mobile Embalmer

Permanent, full-time + on-call

Barclays Edinburgh Care Centre

£25,500.00 - £30,600.00 per annum depending on experience and qualifications + on-call ancillary payments

Mon - Fri -8:00am-4:00pm, weekend as required including out of hours duties

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 cater for funerals of all faiths and cultures, burial and cremation services, and non-religious funerals. If an alternative funeral is most fitting, then we can arrange for bespoke services, such as woodland burials, green funerals and burials at sea. We are also here to give you careful guidance wherever it is needed, such as help with what to do when someone dies, legal advice, and emotional support.

At our Care Centre in Edinburgh, we are looking for a professional and compassionate individual to join our collaborative and dedicated team as a Mobile Embalmer, based from our Care Centre and supporting our funeral homes in and around Edinburgh, also to assist Perth embalming absence and also Lanarkshire as well.

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 a Mobile Embalmer?

You will ensure that all deceased are given proper and appropriate treatment in a dignified manner by following the best possible standards of preparation and presentation. In addition, you will carry out the instructions by ensuring consistent delivery of the highest levels of client service as set out in ‘Helping our Clients Every Step of the Way’.

Other duties will include:

- Fully comply with the quality standards manual and Dignity’s internal procedures
- Responsible for preparing the deceased to be placed in the coffin, with an eye to the final presentation (including the condition of the coffin), taking into account any instruction made by those responsible for the arrangement
- Be prepared to offer advice to community staff on the presentation of the deceased
- Ensure identification procedures are strictly adhered to
- Work closely and develop positive relationships with the Business Leader and recommend operational initiatives that ensure cooperation between support and client services (e.g. embalmer productivity, liaison with staff responsible for dealing with clients who will be spending time with the deceased)
- Identify unnecessary costs and recommend controls to Business Leader / Service Delivery Lead
- Ensure that the reception of the deceased into the mortuary is consistent with company policy and procedures
- Complete all company and statutory documentation
- Fully comply with all Dignity’s Internal Procedures and NAFD Code of Practice. You will be responsible for and ensure that approved materials and chemicals are used in appropriate quantities complying with COSHH regulations
- Ensure compliance with all health and safety and immunisation requirements
- Adhere to the reporting procedures of all accidents in the body preparation area
- Ensure that the working practices, facility, and it’s equipment are maintained to the highest standards according to Health and Safety and company procedures.

What Do I Need?
- Be resolute about handling the deceased with care, tenderness, and complete respect for their dignity
- Have gained or is working towards the British Institute of Embalmer’s Diploma or the Dignity recognised equivalent
- Be physically fit and able to lift and carry heavy weights in accordance with manual handling procedures
- Commitment to funeral service
- Hold a full UK Driving Licence

What are the next steps?

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