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Cemetery attendant
Burial ground attendant Burial ground worker Burial grounds custodian Burial site attendant Burial site worker Cemetery attendant Cemetery labourer Cemetery worker Churchyard attendant Graves digger Graveyard attendant Graveyard worker Undertaker's helper
Cemetery attendants maintain the cemetery ground in good condition. They ensure the graves are ready for burial prior to funerals and ensure accurate burial records. Cemetery attendants offer advice to funeral services directors and the general public.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Making arrangements for, and conducting, funerals, cremations and burials;
(b) Embalming human bodies to retard or arrest the process of decay;
(c) Conforming to health and sanitation and ensuring that legal requirements concerning embalming are met;
(d) Incising and closing incisions on various parts of the body and reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary;
(e) Dressing bodies and placing them in caskets;
(f) Conducting interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
Knowledge
- Management and administration
Digital competencies
- Complying with operational procedures
- Cultivating land and crops
- Planning events and programmes
- Maintaining operational records
- Moving or lifting materials, equipment, or supplies
Digital competencies
No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.
Personal competencies
- Supporting others
- Working efficiently
Professional groups of the occupation
Service and sales workers
Personal service workers
Other personal services workers
Undertakers and embalmers
Other occupations of the professional group
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Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Undertakers and embalmers
179
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
37,84%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
-18,64% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
24,02%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
31,28%
Part-time contracts
1,75% Turnover index
54
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
15%
Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
The market for this profile is hiring
Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age
Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.
Personal service workers
53%
47%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Personal service workers
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
What vacancies are published in the professional family?
Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year
Other personal services workers
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Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.
What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?
Undertakers and embalmers
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
The vacancies published are for working in:
Job vacancies posted by county
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
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