Bereavement Officer Groundsman
Gloucester
This is a Gloucester City Council job.
- Job Title: Bereavement Officer Groundsman
- Job Location: Cemeteries & Crematorium
- Salary: £25,185 - £25,583
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 24th April 2026
- Job Requisition Number: 13949
- This post is not open to job share
We are a dynamic local authority providing essential services to the people of Gloucester.
Our main office, based in the Eastgate Centre on Eastgate Street in the heart of the city, is an accessible, modern and light space designed for collaborative working and finding new ways to work. It's all open plan, with a living green wall and other plants without set desks, so you can sit next to someone new every day. We're always looking to improve how we work and we offer flexible and agile working to give our people a great work life balance.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to become part of the Bereavement Services ground staff team at Coney Hill Cemetery and Crematorium.
Where you will report to the Bereavement services grounds foreman. We are a small friendly team operating within the public sector providing Cremation and Burial services to bereaved families and the general public.
What we need from you:
We are seeking to appoint a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual to become part of the Bereavement services Grounds maintenance team assisting in the day to day running of the Cemetery.
Main duties will be, Maintain the grounds to a high standard, operating machinery, mowing, hedge trimming, edging cultivation, manuring and site preparation of beds, shrubberies,sweeping, hoeing, cleaning leaves and litter and other such duties relating to the Cemetery and Crematorium gardens
Prepare graves for burials, ensuring that excavated soil is covered up, placing out boards, matting and put logs. Excavate graves both manually and mechanically observing at all times prescribed health and safety practices using shoring at all times, covering immediately after completion.
You will be dealing with the bereaved on a daily basis, in stressful circumstances it is therefore essential that you have a high level of empathy and good communication and customer care skills.
Additional Information
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Bereavement Officer Groundsman
Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Equality and Diversity
We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.
We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability.
We are a disability confident employer committed to removing barriers to employment to those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure to ensure that no-one is disadvantages because of their disability. Please contact the recruitment team if you require support or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Further information on our commitment to Equality and Diversity can be found Here
If you wish to apply for this position on a secondment basis, please obtain approval from your current line manager that you may be released on a secondment before submitting an application form.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.
By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.
*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities