Head Grounds Person

1 month ago


Bishop Auckland, United Kingdom Dignity Full time

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 service families. We act with integrity. We celebrate life. Whilst we deal with death, we have an immense appreciation for the beauty of life, and we care deeply for our clients and communities. We help the bereaved celebrate the memory of lost loved ones and support people in planning ahead so their families can focus on remembering.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Grounds Person to Join Business Leader Andrea Todd and her dedicated team at Wear Valley Crematorium as a Heads Grounds Person.

This is a full time permanent position working 38.33 hours per week, Monday - Friday 09:00am -17:00pm.

**What would I be doing as a Head Grounds Person?**

As the Head Groundsperson, your priority will be to maintain a high-quality environment that will give clients and visitors a sense of tranquillity, reflect the excellent standards of care and sensitivity, and work closely and creatively with the memorial team.

Further duties will include:

- Ensure consistent delivery of the highest levels of client service and provision of all aspects of ‘Serving our Local Communities.'
- To undertake the full range of gardening, Cemetery, Crematoria, and horticultural tasks.
- Be aware of and sensitive to the needs of bereaved people.
- Maintain the grounds and buildings to the highest standard in accordance with recognised horticultural and grounds maintenance practices.
- Ensure creativity but sensitivity with the design, construction of memorial gardens and where appropriate, utilisation of space.
- Carry out inspections of all new memorials and graves to ensure correct location, orientation and quality standards.
- Operating cremators and ancillary equipment in accordance with manufacturers' guidelines (Full Training will be provided for this).

**What Do I Need?**
- Health & Safety awareness to include risk assessments and method statements.
- Previous management or supervisor experience.
- Horticultural qualifications to National Diploma Standards (**Desirable**).
- Skills and knowledge of professional landscape maintenance.
- Willing to attend a Cremator Technicians training course **(Essential).**:

- 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.
- Have the willingness to be multi-skilled in different areas of the business.

**What do you get?**
- An annual salary of **£23,818.26**:

- Accruing 22 - 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
- Sick pay eligibility after 12 month qualifying period.
- Life Assurance 2 x salary.
- Company Pension Scheme.
- Opportunity to enrol on several of our apprenticeship schemes.

**What are the next steps?**

**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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