Becoming a Funeral Worker (Other) in Queensland

About this role

Funeral Workers (Other) includes jobs like Embalmer, and Funeral Director's Assistant.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Funeral Worker (Other) include:

• interviews families and associates of the deceased to assist with funeral arrangements such as the selection of coffin, type of service and publication of death notices
• advise on funeral costs and welfare provisions
• collects bodies from mortuaries
• ensures death certificates have been issued, burial and cremation certificates processed and that other legal requirements are met
• prepares bodies for viewing and burial by washing, draining body fluids, applying padding and cosmetics, dressing bodies and placing them in coffins
• liaise with clergy, cemetery and crematorium staff
• co-ordinates the movement of coffins and funeral cars, arranges floral displays and collects attendance and tribute cards
• arranges the placement of coffins at funeral sites, and the placing and adjusting of floral displays and lighting
• keeps records and accounts of transactions and services performed
• may arrange the construction of memorials and the disposal of ashes.