Diploma of Mortuary Management
This qualification provides the skills and knowledge for an individual to be competent in a range of management activities requiring planning, implementing and monitoring mortuary practices and procedures. This qualification requires knowledge and application of funeral services industry protocols when dealing with the deceased. Work would be undertaken in a mortuary.
This qualification is designed to reflect the role of employees who work autonomously and manage the work of others. It involves the use of a broad knowledge base incorporating theoretical concepts and requires the identification, analysis and evaluation of information from a variety of sources.
This qualification is not suitable for an Australian apprenticeship pathway.
Job roles
Graduates with this qualification could work in a funeral home mortuary overseeing all aspects of the operation of the mortuary, including developing, monitoring and evaluating mortuary OHS practices.
Possible job title includes:
mortuary manager.
Prerequisite requirements
Those wishing to gain entry into the Diploma of Mortuary Management will be recognised as competent, through a recognised training program or recognition process, in the following units of competency:
Work effectively in the funeral services industry | |
Deal with grief and trauma | |
Encoffin the deceased person | |
Determine body preparation requirements | |
Cleanse and disinfect deceased bodies | |
Set facial features | |
Restore minor body damage | |
Restore head damage on autopsied cases | |
Restore and set eyes after eye donation | |
Dress bodies and apply cosmetics | |
Supervise mortuary operations | |
Determine embalming requirements | |
Treat the arterial system | |
Treat abdominal and thoracic cavities | |
Treat tissue gas | |
Follow infection and contamination control procedures | |
Follow mortuary OHS procedures |