Joseph Dinkins
Sumter,SC
Summary
At Williams Funeral Home Inc, I excelled in providing compassionate communication and funeral service coordination, enhancing family experiences during difficult times. Leveraging skills in restorative art and QuickBooks, I significantly contributed to respectful and dignified memorials, demonstrating a profound ability to meet diverse family needs with empathy and efficiency.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Funeral Director's Assistant
Williams Funeral Home Inc
11.2023 - Current
- Emotionally comforted mourners and lent perspective during all-encompassing tragedies.
- Loaded and operated hearses to transport caskets cautiously.
- Navigated and accommodated differing religious and cultural considerations for post-mortem care, conducting culturally responsible ceremonies and preparation practices.
- Prepared obituaries for newspapers and online publications after extensive consultation with family members.
- Acted as pallbearer during wake, funeral and burial process.
- Positioned corpses in caskets and arranged according to client wishes with exceptional and constant communication.
- Cosmetically enhanced deceased with care and according to specific family requests.
- Supported cremator with operation of equipment and packaging of cremated remains.
- Acquired burial permits and registered deaths with proper authorities.
- Displayed highest level of professionalism and sensitivity when dealing with grieving family members.
- Picked up deceased at private homes, hospitals and county morgues.
- Arranged transportation between sites for remains, mourners, pallbearers and members of clergy.
- Arranged funeral/memorial services for grieving families to meet budget and memorialized instructions.
- Closed and secured caskets and led funeral corteges to churches and burial sites.
- Liaised between hospitals, physicians, county coroner and members of clergy to coordinate final arrangements.
- Performed embalming procedures and updated case study reports.
- Provided administrative support to funeral home staff.
- Transported deceased to funeral home.
- Embalmed, dressed and cosmeticized deceased persons.
Education
High School Diploma - Basic Education Curriculum
CornerStone Christian HighSchool
Townsend, GA02.2011
Skills
- Organizational abilities
- Transportation Coordination
- Funeral planning
- Marketing support
- Restorative art
- Compassionate communication
- Office Administration
- Memorial service setup
- Grief counseling
- Valid State Name driver's license
- Sales and Marketing
- OSHA Regulations
- Knowledge of Software Program
- QuickBooks knowledge
- Body preparation
- Pricing Structures
- Crematory maintenance
- Empathetic
- Family Counseling
- Chapel organization
- Accounting Software
- Funeral service coordination
- Active Listening
- Effective Communication
Certification
Currently Working On Apprenticeship Training & Currently Enrolled in Pedimont Technical College Embalmers Certification Program..
Timeline
Funeral Director's Assistant
Williams Funeral Home Inc
11.2023 - Current
High School Diploma - Basic Education Curriculum
CornerStone Christian HighSchool
Currently Working On Apprenticeship Training & Currently Enrolled in Pedimont Technical College Embalmers Certification Program..
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