Groundsperson - Braintree, United Kingdom - Dignity Funerals

Dignity Funerals

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Braintree, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Groundsperson

Permanent / Full-time

Three Counties Crematorium/ Braintree, Essex

40 hours per week + occasional overtime

£23,088 per annum + overtime payments

Accruing days holiday + bank holidays | Sick pay eligibility after 12-month qualifying period | Life Assurance 2 x salary| Pension Scheme
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 offer a range of challenging and rewarding roles for caring individuals across the funeral profession and we continually invest in our staff, premises and vehicles so that we can ensure clients and their loved ones receive the highest standard of care.

Every day, we want to exceed our customers' expectations, we aim to do this by persistently delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people.

Three Counties Crematorium in Braintree is a modern, state-of-the-art building, which was officially opened on 2 June 2009 by the Right Reverend J Gladwin, Bishop of Chelmsford. Our chapel can accommodate larger funerals and is multi-faith; we can help you arrange the service according to your cultural and religious needs. We aim to provide the highest possible standards of care in all aspects of our service.

Three Counties Crematorium is looking for a compassionate, dedicated individual to join our team as a Groundsperson, to manage the day-to-day duties in the Crematorium & Cemetery grounds.

Our values:

Professional, Compassion, Respect & Knowledge form the basis of all our interactions and recognising this, you will be giving back to families in a critical time, whilst ensuring that their loved ones are treated with the utmost respect and dignity.

Alongside a highly collaborative, supportive team, we will give you the room to stretch and develop within the industry.

With both training and learning opportunities, our dedicated Learning and Development team and management team will ensure that you are delivered full training to confidently perform this role and will also promote your progression.

Alongside this, Dignity Plc really believes in our people, so you will also have access to a wide range of Mental and Financial Well-being tools, access to financial support and a broad range of benefits.

What Will I Be Doing as a Groundsperson?

As a Groundsperson, you will be carrying out a full range of gardening & horticultural tasks, including building new gardens and maintaining a high-quality environment.

Other duties will include:

Take care of the grounds, keeping them maintained and presentable.
Supporting the creation of memorials/memorial gardens and plots to client specification.
Make sure graves are dug appropriately for the deceased and maintain graves as needed for the friends and family of the deceased.
Clear the grounds, paths and roadways of litter.
Dealing with visitors' enquiries.
Carry out any other duties when reasonably requested to do so by your Line Manager.

What Do I Need?

Horticultural/ gardening/grounds keeping experience is 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
Comfortable working in a team or carrying out tasks by yourself

Advantageous:

Previous experience in the industry, though this is not required, as full training will be provided.

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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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