Burial and Grounds Team Leader

Plymouth City Council; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Team Leader for their Bereavement Service. This role involves supervising a small operational team to ensure safe and efficient interments and grounds maintenance across multiple cemeteries. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and compliance with health and safety standards while providing training and support to the team. This flexible employer values equality and offers tailored working arrangements. If you're passionate about community service and have the skills to lead a team effectively, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills to supervise operational teams effectively.
• Ability to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and organize tasks for Burial and Grounds Technicians.
• Ensure safety and quality assurance of cemeteries and grounds.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Health and Safety Compliance

Risk Assessment

Customer Service

Job description

Burial and Grounds Technician - Role Profile.pdf

12-month Fixed Term or Secondment

An opportunity has risen for a 12-month fixed term or secondment working with the Bereavement Service as a Team Leader Burial and Grounds.

This post will support the Bereavement Service Management Team with supervising a small operational team to deliver interments and grounds maintenance tasks across our four cemeteries, Efford, Longcause, Ridge Cross and Weston Mill alongside the 5 closed churchyards that the service is responsible for.

The candidate will need strong leadership skills and be able to demonstrate compliance with health and safety, to ensure that the team and the equipment they use is compliant and able to give daily reassurance to the management team that health safety and well-being procedures are being followed.

Duties will include:

1. Direct supervision and organisation, delegation of tasks and direction of the Burial and Grounds Technicians
2. Quality assurance of our cemeteries
3. Ensure compliance with Health and Safety requirements for staff and machinery
4. Ensure that all our cemeteries are safe for our visitors
5. Provide relevant training ensuring safe, efficient and best practices are undertaken and adhered to
6. Undertake Risk Assessments and produce SWOPS and the delivery of Toolbox Talks
7. Organise and task the team to ensure that works are completed within set timescales, efficiently and to the required standard
8. Respond to and manage staffing / HR issues
9. Respond to customer comments and complaints, face to face, over the telephone or by email
10. Meet customers and help locate graves
11. Actively promote the memorial items within our cemeteries to improve revenue
12. Officiant at burials and interments
13. Work planning in the short/medium term

Plymouth City Council is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, care experience, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation.

As part of our commitment to promoting equality we offer guaranteed interviews to those who meet the essential criteria and are considered disabled, care experienced or are an Armed Forces Service Leaver within the last two years.

We are a flexible employer and provide a variety of working arrangements tailored to the needs of each role.

For more information or an informal discussion regarding this role, please contact Cheryl Spear by email at [e-mail].

Closing Date: Monday 28 April 2025