Overview
Casual Celebrant & Registration Officer – Casual
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Casual Celebrant & Registration Officer
- Job Location: Shire Hall
- Salary: £28,142-£29,540 per annum (pro rata)
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Casual
- Closing Date: 10/11/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 6800
- This post is not open to job share
Casual Celebrants and Registration Officers
Would you like to work in a diverse, highly responsible, and challenging public facing role, where you will work across the county at differing venues? Be able to choose your own work availability, and become part of a team?
About the Role & Team
Gloucestershire Registration Service is a busy service within Gloucestershire County Council. We are looking for reliable, flexible, highly efficient people with a professional and confident approach. This is a dual trained role that entails learning to officiate at statutory (legal marriage and civil partnership ceremonies) and non-statutory (naming and renewal of vows ceremonies) and to legally register marriages and civil partnerships. You will be required to attend ceremonies in Registration offices, some places of worship, licenced Approved Premises, and non-licensed venues throughout the county.
Enhanced rates of pay for weekend and bank holiday working apply.
Mileage is payable in excess of agreed home to base (commute) mileage when travelling to ceremonies. You must hold a current full driving licence and have a vehicle available for travel on business (you must have appropriate motor insurance), as you will be required to travel to ceremonies countywide.
The role is rewarding, interesting and tests personal resilience as you will be dealing with members of the public who may be highly emotional.
You will be part of a committed, hardworking team of people who strive to always achieve excellent customer service and who are proud to represent the service.
About You
Efficiency, confidence, warmth, and assertiveness are attributes needed to deal with large, emotionally charged groups and to deliver ceremonies. You must be able to learn about and always adhere to strict policy and procedure.
You will need to have a professional and sensitive approach, building a good rapport with members of the public quickly. Ideally, you should have previous work experience of providing a pressured service to the public and experience of interviewing customers face to face. Strong listening skills, interpersonal and computer skills are essential. Clear handwriting, high standards of accuracy and attention to detail are essential in these roles.
Candidates must show ability and confidence to assimilate technical information and have a positive approach to ongoing technical learning and assessments. There is a requirement to efficiently communicate and work with others responsibly and reliably.
Work can be available weekends and/or weekdays throughout the year and is allocated according to your own availability. The amount of work offered varies and is dependent on ceremonies booked by the public.
You will be available for initial technical training (in the classroom and in the field) – training, mentoring and ongoing support are provided. Once signed off in the role you are expected to attend at least two refresher training sessions per year and positively engage to receive feedback from technical assessments in between.
About Us
Our people do all they can to make the difference to the Gloucestershire community. Here are some of the benefits we offer in return for your hard work:
• Regular formal and informal support.
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment.
• Access to training and refresher sessions.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with
major supermarket chains and high street retailers.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free,
confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online
and by telephone.
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
Initially shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an assessment day. It is a full day from 09:00-16.30 and will be held at Shire Hall on Friday 12th December 2025. Please note: Attending the full assessment day is mandatory as candidates are further shortlisted from this day to attend individual face to face interviews.
If invited candidates cannot attend the assessment day, they will need to apply at any future recruitment for the roles as the day is mandatory for suitability to be assessed for roles.
Interviews for those successful from the assessment day will be held at Shire Hall on 8th, 9th or 13th January 2026.
How to apply
If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive impact then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” button.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Tara Chatham or Michelle Jones via email SRSO@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Closing date: 10th November 2025
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to the assessment day during the week commencing 24th November 2025.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Casual Celebrant & Registration Officer – Job Profile
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
