Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Worker Type: Onsite Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £28,598 (Level one), rising to £31,022 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Location: Nottingham, Citywide
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here .
About The Role
Are you a dedicated and compassionate individual with a commitment to delivering respectful bereavement services? Nottingham City Council is seeking a reliable
Bereavement Services Operative to support cemetery operations and ensure dignified services for our community.
As a Bereavement Services Operative, you will undertake a range of cemetery duties including grave digging, grounds maintenance, and memorial safety. You will interact with the public, funeral directors, and stakeholders to support statutory duties and uphold high standards of service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- To undertake a range of cemetery duties, including grounds maintenance, grave digging, sexton responsibilities, and ensuring memorial safety across all Nottingham City Council cemeteries.
- To plan and prepare for burials, considering grave and coffin dimensions, location, soil conditions, and excavation methods.
- To coordinate funeral corteges, attend and support burials, including backfilling and finishing graves, and conduct the burial of cremated remains.
To recognise the sensitive and emotional nature of burials, exercising sound judgement in potentially distressing situations
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- You will be an experienced with:
- Experience in operations and grounds maintenance.
- Sensitivity to the needs of bereaved families and cultural diversity.
- Ability to work flexibly across sites and operate council vehicles and machinery.
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
You can find the job description for this post here
Please submit an application explaining how you meet the criteria, clearly articulating how you will fulfil the role and what positive contribution you feel you will bring to the service.
Your application should be no more than two sides of A4.
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the
additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact
Dan Farrell, Cemetery Manager, by email at
[email protected] .
Closing Date: 21st September 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: w/c 6th October 2025
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support
By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.
About Us
Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working – to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
