The main duties of this post include the registration of births, deaths and marriages, and taking of notices of marriage and civil partnership. Conducting marriage and civil partnership ceremonies at the Register Office and Approved Premises.
Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.
We are seeking a Registration Officer to provide outstanding customer service whilst focusing on statutory duties of a Deputy Registrar, which includes registration of births, stillbirths, deaths and attestation of notices of marriage/civil partnerships. This is an office based role which involves seeing customers face to face.
We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, together with good IT, administrative skills and meticulous attention to detail who can remain calm under pressure and has the ability to apply complex regulations in a sensitive and customer focused way.
Experience of delivering services directly to the public is needed and the successful candidate must be able to work effectively and flexibly in a busy front-line office.
Some weekend working will be required and travel to venues within the borough will require you to use your own transport for which mileage will be paid - business use insurance will be required.
Interviews will be held on Thursday th June at Chester Register Office.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient applications have been received.
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Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £ per hour for all contracted hours.