Manchester City Council
Location
Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
Working Hours: 35 Hours per week
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent x3
Additional Payments: 6.7% Flexibility Payment
Closing Date: 18 March 2024
This role is subject to -
Medical Clearance - Pre-placement health assessment (PPHA)
Bereavement Services deliver in the region of 3,000 burial and cremation services each year in the Councils five cemeteries and one crematorium. The Cemetery Worker role sits within the Infrastructure Team which provides cemetery & crematorium management and delivery of the burial and cremation services and grounds maintenance function for five cemeteries within Bereavement Services.
The Cemetery Worker role covers all duties relating to burials, cremations, grounds maintenance, horticulture and memorial safety testing, across a number of sites. Cemetery Workers are expected to undertake all duties as required by the service, and will be expected to work as required at any of these sites:
· Blackley Cemetery & Crematorium
· Philips Park Cemetery
· Gorton Cemetery
· Manchester General Cemetery
· Southern Cemetery
The role holder will be required to understand and keep up to date with Council policies, and legislation and procedures that are specific to the role, and to undertake necessary training and development regularly to ensure they are compliant. The role holder will also be expected to support the training and development of new staff.
The Infrastructure team is required to work alongside other teams across all cemeteries and the crematorium, to coordinate and communicate tasks ensuring smooth and efficient delivery of the service. Strong team work and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to work proactively and use initiative and quick thinking to resolve problems.
This is primarily an outdoor based role, with significant physical demands working in extreme outdoor conditions.
The post holder will provide a sensitive, professional and tactful service to a range of customers which will include funeral directors and bereaved families, and should be able to communicate with sympathy, sensitivity, tact and professionalism.
The role requires the post holder to drive fleet vehicles and operate drive on and manual equipment and machinery such as diggers, mowers and power tools. The role holder will be required to hold a clean driving license.
The role holder will support service delivery in relation to the following tasks, ensuring duties are carried out in the most efficient way, and that the service is delivered and maintained to a high standard:
· preparing graves for burials and supporting burial services
· operating cremators and carrying out the full cremation process
· carrying out a variety of grounds maintenance and horticultural duties
· providing front of house crematorium chapel duties
· undertaking tasks relating to memorial safety testing
We’re the local government authority for Manchester , and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.
When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.
To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:
A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.
Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council
At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.
If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
Accessibility
As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.
When you join us
We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.
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£26.87k per annum
