Grounds Person

4 weeks ago


North Waltham, United Kingdom Crematoria & Memorial Group Full time

**Groundsperson**

12-Month FTC/ Part-time

Basingstoke Crematorium / Basingstoke

24 hours per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 08:00 am - 17:00 with 1-hour break)

£13,852.80 per annum + Company Benefits

Accruing 22 - 25 days holiday + bank holidays | Sick pay eligibility after 12-month qualifying period | Life Assurance 2 x salary

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, we aim to do this by persistently delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people.

**Basingstoke Crematorium opened in June 1998 and is set on 22 acres of well-maintained grounds. We are located close to the M3 motorway and A303/A30 and are ideally placed to serve the communities of North East Hampshire.**

Basingstoke Crematorium is looking for a compassionate, dedicated individual to join our team as a **Groundsperson**. 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, supportive 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 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 Groundsperson?**

As a Groundsperson, you will be carrying out a full range of gardening & horticultural tasks, including building new gardens and maintaining a high-quality environment.

**Other duties will include**:

- Take care of the grounds, keeping them maintained and presentable
- Supporting the creation of memorial gardens and plots to client specification
- Make sure graves are dug appropriately for the deceased and maintain graves as needed for the friends and family of the deceased
- Dealing with visitors' enquiries

**What Do I Need?**
- Horticultural experience is an advantage but not required - the key is a willingness to learn, develop your skills and undertake training courses
- Experience in operating mechanical gardening equipment is advantageous, although training can be provided for this
- Is comfortable with manual handling tasks
- Excellent attention to detail is essential
- Good communication skills
- Comfortable working in a team or carrying out tasks by yourself

**Advantageous**:

- Previous experience in the industry, though this is not required, as full training will be provided.

**_
Dignity Plc is an equal opportunity employer where we celebrate diversity across our business. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees; therefore, all our employment decisions are assessed based on qualifications, merit and business need._**

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**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement**

Our Vision is to connect with our clients, colleagues, company and communities based on our principles whilst celebrating our differences.

We aim to empower leaders and colleagues to seek out and understand new voices and perspectives; to be vocal about inequity and exclusion, and take decisive, informed and bold action to promote inclusion and belonging.



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