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SalaryTHIS ROLE IS INTERNALLY RESTRICTED
To apply for this job, you must meet all of the following criteria:
- Be an employee of Kirklees Council.
- Be employed by Kirklees for the duration of the recruitment process – up to and including the start date.
- Have successfully completed your probationary period.
(Please note that if you work for an Academy, you are not an employee of the Council.)
Your employment status will be checked, if you do not meet the above requirements your application will be rejected.
Our employees are at the very heart of the services we provide to the community, to help us achieve our ambitions, we want the best possible team. In return, we will make sure you are rewarded with a great range of staff benefits to support you in and out of work.
If we had a pound for every time somebody said “haven’t you got a lovely job” we would be millionaires!
The reality is that they are very satisfying as well as being very demanding; although some duties are joyous, such as registering births and marriages, we also register deaths, still births and register civil ceremonies where an individual is terminally ill.
We are often the first point of contact for people who are facing difficult and tragic circumstances and also people experiencing optimistic and exciting times. Therefore, we are required to be aware and react to each individual situation and obtain the necessary information, following the legislation procedures as instructed by the General Register Office, to complete the registration within the allotted appointment time.
A lot of the role is clerical in nature and part of that is the issuing of certificates of past events that occurred in the Kirklees district. We hold records for births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships from 1837 to present. It’s a fast-paced environment and you need to be organised and extremely accurate. We expect to train you in civil registration, but you must have a background which can demonstrate working within strict processes, interpreting complex information and navigating IT and diary management systems; as well as having high levels of resilience and natural empathy.
Dewsbury location may change to Huddersfield during the course of the year as the Dewsbury office is set to close.
