SIFFFNL010 — Plan and conduct funeral ceremonies
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What an assessment for SIFFFNL010 must cover
44 assessable components: 4 elements (14 performance criteria), 6 performance evidence and 24 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Plan funeral ceremonies.
- 1.1Liaise with clients to plan and develop an appropriate funeral ceremony.
- 1.2Collaborate with funeral personnel to identify and confirm funeral ceremony arrangements and requirements.
- 1.3Liaise with ceremony participants to identify individual roles.
- 1.4Identify and organise required resources.
2 Prepare ceremonial addresses.
- 2.1Determine required length of address according to funeral arrangements and client requirements.
- 2.2Review available information on the deceased.
- 2.3Incorporate public speaking techniques to enhance quality of ceremonial address.
- 2.4Prepare and review address with clients and colleagues.
3 Perform funeral ceremonies.
- 3.1Deliver address according to appropriate public speaking strategies and agreed timeframe.
- 3.2Take account of ceremony participants according to agreed funeral ceremony arrangements.
- 3.3Close funeral ceremony according to agreed funeral ceremony arrangements.
4 Review funeral ceremonies.
- 4.1Request client feedback and review responses.
- 4.2Reflect on own performance and note areas for improvement and appropriate strategies.
- 4.3Record and report evaluation.
Performance evidence
- liaise with appropriate family members and friends of the deceased and funeral personnel to establish relevant information in order to prepare appropriate funeral ceremony
- communicate with the bereaved according to funeral services industry protocols and parameters
- identify and organise required resources
- use effective public speaking techniques to sensitively deliver appropriate funeral speeches according to client requirements and required timeframes
- evaluate ceremony based on client feedback
- Evidence of performance of planning and conducting funeral ceremonies of diverse client requests on five or more occasions is required to demonstrate consistency of performance and ability to respond to different situations.
Knowledge evidence
- roles and responsibilities of the range of funeral services personnel and external contractors and agencies involved in funeral ceremonies
- features of ceremony requirements, including but not restricted to: committal style: burial, inurnment, cremation, entombment, memorial service
- features of ceremony requirements: selection of text readings or scriptures
- features of ceremony requirements: public acknowledgment of deceased
- features of ceremony requirements: choice of speakers or readers
- features of ceremony requirements: inclusion of work and community colleagues
- features of ceremony requirements: placing special personal effects with the deceased
- features of ceremony requirements: use of music
- features of ceremony requirements: audiovisual, such as videos or DVDs
- features of ceremony requirements: use of lighting
- features of ceremony requirements: placement of candles
- features of ceremony requirements: choice and placement of flowers
- features of ceremony requirements: photographs
- features of ceremony requirements: special locations: outdoors, private home, cemetery, crematorium
- resources required conducting funeral ceremonies
- processes for burial and inurnment
- social, religious and cultural differences and traditions that impact on conducting a funeral ceremony
- professional funeral services industry parameters and protocols in dealing with the bereaved and the deceased
- workplace policies and procedures regarding performing funeral celebrancy
- techniques that allows for effective public speaking, including: methods for managing nerves: centred breathing, practising material, checking environment and facilities, positive thinking
- techniques that allows for effective public speaking: tone, pitch and volume of voice
- techniques that allows for effective public speaking: pace of delivery
- techniques that allows for effective public speaking: use of body language and eye contact
- purpose and benefits of formal and informal client feedback mechanisms
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Questions about assessing SIFFFNL010
What does an assessment tool for SIFFFNL010 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for SIFFFNL010 needs to address all 44 unit components: 4 elements with 14 performance criteria, 6 performance evidence requirements, 24 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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