Seasonal Grounds Maintenance Operative (Cemeteries)

About the Role:

An exciting and challenging opportunity has been created to join our Cemetery Grounds Maintenance team who maintain various Cemeteries within Wirral.

We are looking for a Seasonal GMO to help provide an excellent service for local people. The successful candidates will help implement the Wirral Parks Standard which will involve working with staff, Friends Groups, service users and external organisation.

You will join one of the Cemetery team based at Flaybrick cemetery. The Grounds Maintenance team work to provide a comprehensive grounds maintenance service to these areas for Parks & Countryside.

About the Candidate:

We are looking for someone who has worked within a Grounds Maintenance team and experience of mowing and vegetation control, maintenance, and management of shrub stock, and in addition undertake cleansing operations and all other duties which includes assisting at burials relevant to the grade.

The successful candidate will have the following essential Knowledge & Skills:

Health & Safety awareness.

Full Driving Licence

As well as being able to carry out a full range of maintenance duties it will be desirable if you were skilled in at least one of the following:

Compact Ride-On Mowing Machines

Experience in use of industrial horticultural machinery, strimmer, backpack blower and hedge cutter.

The postholders Key Tasks will include:

Working within a Cemetery Grounds Maintenance team.

Assisting and implementing a grass cutting schedule.

Working with plans.

Carry out other Amenity work when required.

Possession of the following Desirable Criteria will be advantageous. Previous experience working within a Cemetery environment. Towing of trailers NVQ 2 in Amenity Horticulture.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. For this vacancy, candidates must have an existing right to work in the UK before commencing employment. Skilled Worker visa sponsorship is not available for this post. Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process.

If you’re already a Wirral Council employee, and as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress, and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@wirral.gov.uk

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Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies.

It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Applications will be accepted until midnight on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications.

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We do not accept applications or CV’s from recruitment agencies, unless otherwise stated. Therefore, any candidates submitted via a recruitment agency will not be considered for this role.