Cemetery Operative

**Ashton Recruitment requires a Cemetery Operative for their client based in Belfast.**

**Job Title**:Cemetery Operative

**Location**:Belfast

**Duration**:Temporary

**Rate of pay**:£10.42

**Hours of Work**:37 per week, 8am to 4pm

**Duties include (but are not limited to)**:

- To be responsible to the Cemeteries and Crematorium Manager or other appropriate officer to undertake work in the cemeteries or crematorium, either individually or as part of a team.
- To undertake the full range of duties involved in cremations and burials in accordance with recognised Codes of Practice.
- To undertake a range of horticultural and gardening duties, as directed.
- To identify and take remedial action for headstone safety.
- To carry out duties to ensure the smooth processing of the funeral from reception of the body, through the service for the dead, to the cremation or burial of the body.
- To co-operate with the Senior Crematorium Technician or Community Parks Supervisor in the compilation of work schedules and report any requests for alterations to the same to the Senior Crematorium Technician or Community Parks Supervisor.

**Essential Criteria**:
At least one year’s relevant experience in each of the following areas:
a) commercial horticultural work, for example, grass cutting, hedge trimming, turfing and seed sowing, planting, sweeping, removal of litter and rubbish etc; and

b) dealing with members of the public in a tactful and sensitive manner, in a similar environment, for example, funeral parlour, cemetery, park, etc.

Ashton Recruitment are acting as an Employment Business

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £10.42-£20.84 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Company pension

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

**Experience**:

- Commercial Horticultural Work: 1 year (required)
- Dealing with members of the public: 1 year (required)

Work Location: One location