Registrar Level 1
Grade: G
Salary: £24,948 - £27,344
Contract: Permanent – 37 hours per week
Location: Scarborough
Do you have a strong customer focus? Are you confident as well as diplomatic with a good command of written and verbal English? Are you looking for a role that marks a milestone in someone’s life?
Our Registration Service is a statutory service delivered by the County Council on behalf of the Registrar General and the General Register Office (GRO), which is part of the Home Office. Our main purpose is to create accurate and timely records of all births, still-births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships occurring across North Yorkshire. We also offer other services such as citizenship ceremonies, and non-statutory civil ceremonies such as Renewal of Vows.
The role
As our Registrar you will be responsible for registering births, deaths, and carrying out all related duties and issuing certification, organise and conduct civil marriage and civil partnership ceremonies, ensuring that the necessary civil preliminaries are performed before a ceremony takes place and that post-ceremony procedures are completed, deal with marriage preliminaries including the taking of notices of marriage and civil partnership and undertaking of pre-ceremony discussions, and register marriages or civil partnerships at the Registration Office or approved venues and issue certification as laid down by legislation.
You will join a supportive team in the Scarborough office, covering Malton and Whitby, when required. The working days are Monday to Friday, weekend ceremonies are flexible and you will receive additional pay for performing these. Ceremonies are not just at the Registration Office, you may be required to perform ceremonies in any of our approved venues, either way you will have a chance to be part of someone’s special day.
Full training will be given and you will have the opportunity to gain a formal qualification if you so wish after a period of initial training and sufficient experience.
What you will bring
You will be confident, diplomatic with a good command of written and verbal English with an accuracy of spelling. You must also be able to demonstrate a high standard of professional service delivery and positive customer focus. You must have experience of dealing with the general public, preferably in a frontline service, with good communication and organisational skills and the ability to deal with customers from all backgrounds, sometimes in difficult situations.
Working at North Yorkshire County Council
North Yorkshire County Council prides itself on being the biggest employer in North Yorkshire as well as being the employer of choice. Our vision is for North Yorkshire to be a thriving county which adapts to a changing world and remains a special place for everyone to live, work and visit. We are a top-rated authority and great changes are afoot to continue with the improvements that have already transformed working within the council.
We welcome and celebrate diversity and inclusion, and the strengths this brings to our communities and workforce. We aim to provide excellent and efficient local services enabling everyone to fulfil their potential, to do this we give everyone equal access to services and job opportunities. We heavily invest in the development of our employees, providing training and development to further enhance their careers.
We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package including continuous professional development; flexible working hours; local government pension scheme; salary sacrifice schemes and employee discount benefits.
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Key dates
Closing date: 1st March 2023
Interview date: 15th March 2023
NYCC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
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