Chapel Attendant

At Dignity, we work in a unique industry helping people through difficult times and always with compassion, respect, openness, and care. We ensure we set the highest standards within our industry and are proud to say we are one of the major providers of funeral services in the UK.

Every day we want to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations. We aim to do this by delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people and by serving our customers with expertise, compassion, and commitment.

We are currently recruiting for a Chapel Attendant to join our dedicated team at East Lancashire Crematorium.

This is a full time permanent position working 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday 08:00am - 17:00pm.

**Interested in finding out more?...**

As Chapel Attendant, your priority will be to maintain a high-quality environment, giving all visitors as sense of tranquillity, a place to pay their respects and remember loved ones
- Liaising with Funeral Directors and Ministers ensuring specific requests are carried out to meet the families requirements including consideration of varying religious requirements.
- Take responsibility for the preparation of the chapel before and after each service to meet Covid sanitisation requirements and ensure the appropriate location of floral tributes.
- Ensuring music and webcasts are checked at the beginning of each day and operating the in-house music system during services (training will be given).
- Conduct witnessed interments and scattering of cremated remains.
- Keeping stock records of poly urns and assisting in the keeping of other records by computer.

**What do we look for?**
- Presentable at all times and acting with professional conduct and showing empathy.
- Committed to providing excellent client service at all times.
- Is comfortable with manual handling tasks.
- Excellent attention to detail is (**Essential).**:

- Good communication skills.
- Have the willingness to be multi-skilled in different areas of the business.

**What we offer**
- Annual Salary of £23,774.04
- Accruing 22-25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays.
- Pension Scheme.
- Life Assurance X2 Salary.
- Company discounts.
- Access to our apprentice and employee development schemes.

**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.