Description
A funeral assistant is a integral part of the funeral business. As a funeral assistant you will trained to perform many of the functions required to keep a funeral home moving. Some of the services you will perform will include: removal of deceased individuals from homes, hospitals, crime scenes. Answering phones, learning funeral etiquette in speaking with families, nurses, doctors, running errands, sitting in office to cover days off of director, driving to medical examiner, picking up death certificates, taking calls at night from answering service for removals two to three days a week after hours. Assisting during funeral services, memorial services, following the direction of the funeral director
Requirements
Be comfortable with death and touching, handling, moving, storing deceased individuals in all states passing. Being able to lift minimal 50#s, use a removal cot in transporting bodies. Answering phones if needed, providing information to those callers. Taking information for any first calls that come in for removals. Cleaning of mortuary will be needed, dusting, moping, vacuuming of floors, cleaning bathrooms, laundry. Standing during funeral services, visitations, memorials, graveside services, greeting attendees of the services. You will be required to drive companies vehicles during day or night times. A clean driving record is required. Must live within a 25 minute driving radius of the funeral home.
Skills Required
- Comfortable with death and handling deceased individuals
- Ability to lift at least 50 pounds
- Experience or ability to use a removal cot to transport bodies
- Willingness to perform removals from homes, hospitals, and crime scenes
- Answer phones, take first-call information, and provide caller information
- Clean and maintain mortuary (dusting, mopping, vacuuming, bathrooms, laundry)
- Stand during services, greet attendees, assist during funeral and memorial services
- Drive company vehicles day or night; clean driving record required
- Availability to take after-hours removal calls (2-3 days per week)
- Residence within a 25-minute driving radius of the funeral home
What We Do
Security National Financial Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate in three main business segments: life insurance, cemetery and mortuary, and mortgage loans. More info at www.securitynational.com. The design and structure of our company is that each segment is related to the others, and contributes to the profitability of the whole. For example, our cemetery and mortuary operations enjoy a high level of public awareness that assists in the sales and marketing of our insurance and pre-need cemetery/funeral products. Security National Life Insurance Company in turn invests its assets in high quality mortgage loans. Thus, while each segment is a stand-alone profit center, this horizontal integration is planned to improve profitability. Our company also actively pursues growth through acquisitions of life insurance companies and mortuaries, and by expanding our mortgage operations.
