Casual Funeral Service Operative

2 weeks ago


Yeovil, United Kingdom Dignity Funerals Full time

**Casual Funeral Service Operative**
**Casual - As & when required**
**Eason Funeral Directors, Yeovil**
**£10.94 per hour + on-call ancillary payments**

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.

**Eason Funeral Directors in Yeovil is here to help plan the funeral of your loved one. We offer support and reassurance at this difficult time, easing some of the pressure and ensuring a farewell that is both sincere and dignified.**

From the moment you call, you will be treated with compassion and respect. We will listen to your needs and gain an understanding of what your loved one meant to you. Our team of caring funeral directors will provide guidance, helping to shape a funeral that is personal to you and your family.

It is natural to experience feelings of uncertainty following the loss of a loved one and you may be daunted by the thought of what needs to be done next. We will be on hand to ease your concerns and offer advice, should you need it, so you are not left to make the decisions alone.

Our funeral home is located on South Street in Yeovil, making us accessible to the local community. We are also within easy reach of surrounding villages in Somerset and Dorset, including East and West Coker, Barwick, Odcombe, Martock and Bradford Abbas.

We have two chapels of rest, which allow you and your family to spend some time in quiet contemplation with your loved one. These peaceful spaces offer comfort and privacy, and our funeral directors can open them outside of normal hours to fit in with your commitments.

**Eason** Funeral Directors are looking for a dedicated, professional, and empathetic individual to join our committed and collaborative team as a 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, 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 Operative?**

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

Some of our posts will require you to assist our on-call rota at night and on the weekend, though this will be fully discussed with you throughout the recruitment process.

Other duties will include:

- Preparing and ensuring the cleanliness of vehicles
- Aid 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
- Good level of physical fitness, as this role will involve heavy lifting duties
- The necessary documentation for a basic DBS, reference & driving licence check.
- Pride in your appearance, ensuring you are always professional
- A caring and empathetic nature
- The determination to deliver excellent client services

**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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