Cemetery Operative - Belfast, United Kingdom - Lynn Recruitment

Lynn Recruitment

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Belfast, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you a dedicated and reliable person? Do you have previous horticulture experience? In this role, you will be responsible to the Cemeteries and Crematorium Manager or other appropriate officer to undertake work in the cemeteries or crematorium, either individually or as part of a team.

Read on to find out more about this exciting opportunity.

Main Duties:

To carry out duties to ensure the smooth processing of the funeral from reception of the body, through the service for the dead, to the cremation or burial of the body.
To cooperate with the Senior Crematorium Technician or Community Parks Supervisor in the compilation of work schedules and report any requests for alterations to the same to the Senior Crematorium Technician or Community Parks Supervisor.
To carry out necessary checks before cremation on identification and to supervise the correct placing of the coffin onto the catafalque by the family or Funeral Directors.
To ensure safe operation and routine maintenance of cremators and auxiliary equipment such as fans, smoke indicators, reducing machine and catafalque etc including minor repairs and identifying and reporting any irregularities with equipment.
To check the daily list of services and ensure that the Chapel is prepared according to the type of service that will be conducted. To set out correctly the times of the services and the names of the deceased onto the daily information board.
Show the family mourners to their seats in the chapel and assist as required with the transfer of the coffin from the hearse to the catafalque and escort the mourners from the Chapel at the end of the service via the exit corridor and floral tributes hall.
To identify and check grave spaces and report irregularities to the Community Parks Supervisor and/or Cemetery Manager.
To excavate grave by use of appropriate tools, for example, shovels, spades and other tools including powered tools and plant such as mechanical excavator, Kango hammers, water pump to appropriate depth.
To be available for emergency cover as required.
To undertake such other relevant duties as may from time to time be required.

Personal Attributes:

Applicants must have at least one year's relevant experience of:

Commercial horticultural work, for example, grass cutting, hedge trimming, turfing and seed sowing, planting, sweeping, removal of litter and rubbish etc.

AND

Dealing with members of the public in a tactful and sensitive manner, in a similar environment, for example, funeral parlour, cemetery, park, etc.

Remuneration and Conditions of Assignment:

- £10.60 per hour

Fulltime, Temporaryongoing
8am4pm, 37 hours per week
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