Funeral Service Arranger

2 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Dignity Funerals Full time

**Funeral Service Arranger**
**Part-time / Permanent**

**Ginns & Gutteridge Funeral Directors / Littlethorpe Leicester**
**£11,918.40 per annum + Company Benefits**

**20 hours per week (Monday - Friday 13:00 pm - 17:00 pm)**
**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.

**Previously Heighton & Son Funeral Directors, our Littlethorpe funeral home continues to serve the community with the same team, the same values and the same uncompromising standards.**

Ginns & Gutteridge Funeral Directors in Littlethorpe, Leicester are looking for a professional and compassionate individual to join our collaborative and dedicated team as a Funeral Service Arranger. 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 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
- Ensure the highest standards of housekeeping at the branch
- Taking part in community and company events

What Do I Need?
- Previous experience within a Customer Service Care or Administrative position.
- Proactive approach and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, both in-person and remotely.
- Comfortable coming into contact with the deceased through the Chapel of Rest visits.
- Acting with professional conduct and showing empathy.

**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.

**What are the next steps?**

**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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