Mortician Job Description Template
We are looking to hire an organized 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 counselors. 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 be successful in this position you need to find a balance between being stoic and empathetic. Top applicants are organized, skilled, and meticulous.
Mortician Responsibilities:
- Meeting with clients to explain services, and to make the 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 counselors.
- Ensuring cleanliness of equipment and preparation room.
- Embalming, dressing, cosmetically enhancing, and casketing deceased people.
- Arranging flowers, religious leaders, and pallbearers for the funeral.
- Providing wake, graveside, funeral, and interment services.
- Driving hearse as needed.
Mortician Requirements:
- Associate’s degree in mortuary science or embalming.
- Valid state licensure as funeral director and embalmer.
- 2+ years of work experience as a mortician.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Proficient knowledge of various religions, cultures, and customs.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Excellent people skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to focus for extended periods.
- Physically strong and dexterous.