Service Delivery Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Dignity Funerals

Dignity Funerals

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Service Delivery Lead

Full-time / Permanent

Wolverhampton and Birmingham Area (Multi-site)

Up to 35k Depending on Experience + Company Benefits

37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 16:30 pm ) Must be Flexible

Accruing days Holiday + Bank holidays | Sick pay eligibility after 12-month qualifying period | Life Assurance 2 x Salary | Company Car
At Dignity, we are proud to work in a unique industry. We succeed by helping people through difficult times with compassion, respect, openness and care.

We offer a range of challenging and rewarding roles for caring individuals across the funeral profession and we continually invest in our staff, premises and vehicles so that we can ensure clients and their loved ones receive the highest standard of care.

Every day, we want to exceed our customers' expectations, and we aim to do this by persistently delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people.

The
Service Delivery Lead has ultimate accountability for the efficient and smooth running of their assigned Care Centre.

They are responsible for the direction, performance, safety, well-being and motivation of all colleagues who work in and from the Care Centre, and for ensuring that the Care Centre provides high-quality service and communication to all branches.

The Care Centre's performance significantly impacts our overall Client satisfaction and wider business reputation, which will influence the Service Delivery Leader.

The Service Delivery Lead will be an ambassador for our Company, have objective lead processes and reliably model the behaviours and values it represents.

Dignity Funerals Ltd are looking for a professional and compassionate individual to join our collaborative and dedicated team as a Service Delivery Lead

Our values:

Professional, Compassion, Respect & Knowledge form the basis of all our interactions and recognising this, you will be giving back to families in a critical time, whilst ensuring that their loved ones are treated with the utmost respect and dignity.

Alongside a highly collaborative, dedicated and supportive management team, we will give you the room to stretch and develop within the industry.

With both training and learning opportunities, our dedicated Learning and Development team and management team will ensure that you are delivered full training to confidently perform this role and will also aim to promote your progression.

Alongside this, Dignity Plc really believes in our people, so you will also have access to a wide range of Mental and Financial Well-being tools, access to financial support and a broad range of benefits.

What Will I Be Doing As A Service Delivery Lead?

Ensure consistent delivery of the highest levels of client service
Proactively seek out and implement opportunities to improve the service levels provided to branches
Ensure all members of staff have been trained to perform all functions of their job; and details of this training is recorded and regularly reviewed, providing refresher training where necessary
Implement measures to monitor and improve operational efficiency within the service centre
Manage, support and work closely with the Funeral Service Operatives, Diary, Mortuary, Workshop and Administration teams
Work closely with and build successful, respectful relationships with Business Leaders and their teams responsible for the branch network in order to best effect operational decisions, encouraging all staff within remit to do the same
Work with and provide support to the Business Leaders, Regional Service Delivery Lead, Head of Region, other Care Centre Managers, and the greater area as required
Understand the roles of and provide cover for colleagues within the Care Centre as necessitated by operational demand

Other duties will include:

Client Service measurement (e.g., Funeral Standards Survey satisfaction ratings)
Cost elements of management accounts, i.e., overtime, fleet costs
Quality standards provided by the mortuary, workshop and funeral teams (e.g., feedback frontofhouse house teams, clients etc)
Speed and accuracy of production of requested reports
Health and Safety assessment scores
Some of our posts will require you to assist our oncall rota at night and at the weekend, though this will be fully discussed with you throughout the recruitment process.

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