Leicester City Council
Skilled Cemetery Operative
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Reference: REQ7565
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Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Would you like to play a key role in ensuring graves are suitably prepped and ready for burials? Join us as a Skilled Cemetery Operative to work in a small team to undertake grave digging, horticultural work, and other duties in accordance with Codes of Practice and current legislation. We provide services in a sensitive manner, meeting all the requirements for different faiths and cultures, and ensure all safe working practices are maintained and adhered to.
You'll be based at Gilroes Cemetery and you'll be expected to work outdoors in all-weather types. This is a full-time, permanent post working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. However, you'll be able to work on a rota system to cover our burials and to undertake any other similar or equivalent duties commensurate with the post.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Prepare graves for burial, backfilling and subsequent aftercare either mechanically or manually using shoring, shuttering and plant equipment.
- Locate graves using cemetery plans and maps.
- Prepare and dress graves for funerals.
- Level and turf graves and the surrounding areas.
- Operate and cleanse powered and manual hand tools, specialized plant, and other equipment.
- Liaise with Funeral Directors and members of the clergy to discuss issues in preparation for future burials.
- On occasions, carry out exhumations, assist in the development of soft and hard landscaping as well as other activities in the aspect of horticulture work.
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What You’ll Need
- Experience of outdoor work using construction or agricultural machinery with knowledge of basic maintenance.
- Knowledge of motor vehicles or other mechanical equipment.
- Empathy and compassion to deal sensitively with members of the public and others in times of personal stress and grief.
- Basic administrative skills to ensure records of interments are accurate and up to date as well as complete all paperwork relevant to the cemetery and grounds maintenance service.
- A valid driving license.
What We Can Offer You
- The satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester.
- A work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.
- Generous annual leave.
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- The option of flexible working.
- Opportunities to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities.
- Flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains, and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.
- For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
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We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome, and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal discussion, please contact Robert Whetstone on 07801405093 or via email: Robert.Whetstone@leicester.gov.uk
Interviews / Assessments will take place on the week commencing 17th of August.
Region: Central
Location: Gilroes Cemetery
Salary: GBP26,403 - GBP28,142 Per Year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP38,374.53
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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