🌿 We’re Hiring: Cemetery Operative (£13.69/hour)
Join a dedicated team that plays a vital role in caring for cemetery grounds and supporting families during sensitive moments. This position offers a hands-on opportunity to work outdoors and make a meaningful impact in your community.
🛠️ What You’ll Be Doing
1. Grounds Care & Maintenance Keep cemetery sites clean and tidy by maintaining buildings, removing litter, emptying bins, and ensuring horticultural standards.
2. Burial Preparation & Grave Digging Mark out, excavate, and prepare graves safely and respectfully—by hand and using machinery.
3. Record Keeping & Map Management Maintain accurate grave records and maps, and upload key data to digital systems.
4. Working with Families & Professionals Liaise compassionately with undertakers, clergy, stonemasons, and the public.
5. Memorial & Safety Inspections Monitor for damage or hazards and conduct routine safety checks.
6. Machinery Operation Safely operate mowers, strimmers, and other maintenance tools with attention to health & safety.
✅ What You Need to Apply
7. Entry Level qualifications in Adult Literacy and Numeracy
8. At least 1 year of experience in: Grounds maintenance Operating tools and machinery (e.g. ride-on/pedestrian mowers, strimmers)
9. Valid driving licence
10. PA1 & PA6 spraying certificates (or willingness to attain within six months of appointment)