Skilled Cemetery Operative L2

**Job details**:
Job reference

REQ4772

Date posted

09/12/2024

Application closing date

29/12/2024

Location

Gilroes Cemetery

Salary

£24,790 - £25,183 Per Year

Package

Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): £34,174.57

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

City Services

Attachments

Skilled Cemetery Operative Level 2 Job Description.pdf

**Skilled Cemetery Operative L2**:
Job description

**Full Time / Permanent / 37 hours**

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 in faiths and cultures, and ensure all safe working practises 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 must be willing to work on a rota system to cover out of hour burials and to undertake any other similar or equivalent duties commensurate with the post.

This is a career graded post (LG Band 3 - LG Band 4). Appointment will be at a Band 3. Dependent on availability of work/vacancy at a higher level, progress will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual Appraisals and through on-going supervision.

**What you’ll be doing**

You will prepare graves for burial, backfilling and subsequent aftercare either mechanically or manually using shoring, shuttering and plant equipment. Locating graves using cemetery plans and maps, you’ll prepare and dress graves for funerals as well as level and turf graves and the surrounding areas. You’ll be responsible for operating and cleansing powered and manual hand tools specialised plant and other equipment. Liaising with Funeral Directors and members of the clergy you’ll discuss issues in preparation for future burials. On occasions you may be required to carry out exhumations, assist in the development of soft and hard landscaping as well as other activities in aspect of horticulture work.

**What you’ll need**

You’ll have experience of outdoor work using construction or agricultural machinery with knowledge of basic maintenance, motor vehicles or other mechanical equipment. With empathy and compassion, you’ll be able to deal sensitively with members of the public and others in times of personal stress and grief. Using basic admin skills, you’ll ensure records of interments are accurate and up to date as well as complete all paperwork relevant to the cemetery and grounds maintenance service.

**What we can offer you**

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of 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.

**Join us**

Interviews/assessment will take place week commencing 6th of January