Thinking About A Career in Funeral Service?
Select Your Route To A Career In Funeral Service
Are you interested in:
- Helping Others?
- The Human Biological Services
- Community Involvement?
- A Business Environment?
A Funeral Service Professional:
- Works with the bereaved, providing sensitive, effective intervention during a time of emotional need.
- Is a professional caregiver who enables families and communities to express their concern for life and the living.
- Is a motivated man or woman who practices a unique vocation and who is legally required to possess certain professional qualifications.
- Is involved in a variety of activities within the community.
- Carries out administrative and logistical tasks required by law, custom and accepted practice.
Duties and responsibilities of a funeral professional:
- Provides support to the bereaved during initial stages of their grief.
- Arranges and directs funeral ceremonies.
- Arranges for transfer of the deceased from the place of death.
- Prepares the body according to the wishes of the survivors and requirements of the law.
- Secures information for legal documents.
- Registers death and other legal papers.
- Assists survivors with details for filing claims for death benefits.
- Helps individuals adapt to changes in their lives following a death through post-death counselling and support group activities.
Why should you enter funeral service?
- You are a caregiver who desires to serve others.
- You believe that ceremony is an effective means of expressing feelings and meeting needs.
- You are tolerant of ways in which people of different faiths and cultures express their feelings and practice their beliefs.
- You are interested in the technical sciences.
- You exhibit sensitivity and compassion for those with whom you are in contact.
- You are interested in learning all aspects of a business.
ABOUT THE BC FUNERAL SERVICES APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
The BC Funeral Services Apprenticeship Program is a formal training program that involves:
- Full time employment
- Learning how to do a task by performing it on the job
- Learning why a task is done that way by taking related classroom instruction and online study modules
- Hands-on training performed under the direct supervision of a licensee
- Industry-driven training program that promotes a skilled work force
To begin the funeral services program – You must FIRST obtain FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT at a funeral home AS AN APPRENTICE FUNERAL DIRECTOR / EMBALMER. Work experiences are documented by students in student logbooks and case study records and validated by the student’s employer / mentor. An APPRENTICESHIP is paid work-based training combined with post-secondary education.
Apprenticeship is a three-way contract between an apprentice, the apprentice’s employer and the Industry Training Authority of British Columbia (ITABC).
The Funeral Service Association of British Columbia is the Approved Designated Training Service Provider for BC Funeral Services Apprenticeship Programs.
Our Education Programs Mission Is:
“To train funeral service apprentices through quality apprenticeship education programs and support employers to meet the training needs.”
LINKS to the Embalmer & Funeral Director Apprenticeship Program
