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What does a Mortician do?
A mortician prepares deceased people for wakes, funerals, and interment by embalming, dressing, cosmetically enhancing, and casketing them. In smaller funeral homes a funeral director, who owns or manages a funeral home, performs the duties of a mortician. Also known as embalmer or undertaker.
Mortician Role
We are recruiting for an organised Mortician to assist clients with making funeral arrangements, and to perform embalming services. The Mortician will provide clients with counsel and comfort and refer them to grief counsellors. You will assist with transporting the deceased to the funeral home, and oversee their preparation and care by embalming, dressing and cosmetically enhancing them. You will assist clients with selecting caskets, pallbearers and religious leaders.
To succeed as a Mortician you need to find a balance between being stoic and empathetic. Top applicants will be organised, skilled and meticulous.
Mortician Duties
- Proficient knowledge of various religions, cultures and customs.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Excellent people skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to focus for extended periods.
- Physically strong and dextrous.
- 2+ years work experience as Mortician.
- Valid driver’s licence.
Mortician Requirements
- Meeting with clients to explain services, and to make funeral, cremation and interment arrangements.
- Providing clients with pricing information and preparing contracts.
- Arranging transport of deceased people to funeral home.
- Obtaining documents and permits related to embalming and funerals from various sources.
- Referring clients to reputable grief counsellors.
- Ensuring cleanliness of equipment and preparation room.
- Embalming, dressing, cosmetically enhancing and casketing deceased people.
- Arranging flowers, religious leaders and pallbearers for funeral.
- Providing wake, graveside, funeral and interment services.
- Driving hearse as needed.
- Proficient knowledge of various religions, cultures and customs.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Excellent people skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to focus for extended periods.
- Physically strong and dextrous.
- 2+ years work experience as Mortician.
- Valid driver’s licence.
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Job title: This should accurately reflect the role and include keywords that top talent might be using to search for jobs.
Job duties: The day to day duties, such as administrative tasks, which vary depending on the company and inform the candidate if they can complete the role.
Technical skills: These are the hard skills required through training, such as proficiency with Microsoft Office.
Soft skills: These include the interpersonal skills and general abilities the right candidates will possess. For example, the competency to prioritise multiple tasks, handle customer queries and customer complaints, work alone, or build a good relationship with coworkers.
The company's culture: Highlighting your company culture and values ensures employees thrive and find outstanding job satisfaction. Candidates that are not the right fit won’t waste their time completing the application process, meaning you can focus on qualified individuals and hire in a more timely manner.
Career progression: Including the career path will entice candidates looking for career growth.
Training and development programs: Smaller companies may need employees with previous experience or provide educational assistance over internal training offered by larger organisations with more significant resources.
Employee benefits: Compensation and benefits often fail to appear in job ads and while you may want to hold your cards close to your chest, failing to include them is a mistake. Consider answering common questions, such as working hours and paid leave. Researching the average salary for the role in these early stages will ensure you don’t waste your interviewer’s and the candidate’s time.
Skill gaps: Your company may need to bring in new skills beyond those required to complete the key role and duties. Thinking on an organisational level can be beneficial when contemplating skills diversity.
Legal requirements: Ensure your job advert and description does not ask for inappropriate or discriminatory personal details, such as age, marital status, or religion.
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