Mortuary & Chapel Assistant

LB204 – Mortuary and Chapel Assistant Location: Croydon Salary: £27,000 Overview: First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Mortuary and Chapel Assistant on behalf of one of our clients. Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration. Duties and Responsibilities: Ensures that all deceased persons are handled and cared for with the utmost care and respect always. Accurately record details of all deceased persons in the mortuary register and on display boards. Ensure that all deceased are correctly measured and have an appropriate form of identification. Ensures all deceased are accompanied by a deceased tracking form correctly completed by removal staff. Where a deceased is identified as ‘Infectious’, ensure that it is clearly labelled to enable the correct handling procedures to be adopted. Any missing information / discrepancies on trackers or a deceased to be escalated to the Manager when discovered. Provides up to date chapel and mortuary list to the Manager by 10:00 each morning and 16:30 each afternoon. Keeps a record of planned viewing dates and viewing locations for deceased. Works closely with the Manager to ensure that all deceased are collected at the appropriate time to enable timely embalming prior to scheduled viewing dates. Liaise with Funeral Arrangers to ensure that clothes required to dress the deceased prior to viewing are received a min…