Senior Registrar

Job title: Senior Registrar
Salary: C1 £ 33,119 - £34,811
Hours: Full time (37 hours)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Based in Merrion House, central Leeds

As a Senior Registrar you will be taking up a senior position within the Leeds Register Office and join our dedicated staff in delivering a variety of essential front-line statutory services. The Register Office is responsible for registering all births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships which take place in Leeds.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

The Senior registrar post provides a diverse range of roles and responsibilities.

• As your main responsibilities will be to attest notices of marriage and civil partnership, as well as registering births and deaths, the ability to enter manual and electronic information with high levels of accuracy is essential.
• You will also make arrangements for and perform marriage, civil partnership and citizenship ceremonies so must be able to perform before and control groups of people
• You must have excellent customer care skills with experience of dealing sensitively, efficiently and professionally with customer enquiries.
• You should be flexible and be able to adapt to regularly changing demands and priorities.
• You will also be a good team player but able to work independently with minimum supervision to make decisions and meet deadlines.
• Although your main base will be in Merrion House, you will also work occasionally at other locations across the city to attend at marriage and civil partnership ceremonies or to register births and deaths.

Working hours are 8.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. Monday to Friday although the services does operate a limited flexi-time scheme. The role also involves working on one in four Saturdays for which additional out of hours payments are made.

The registrars service holds birth, death and marriage records for Leeds dating back to 1837, and for civil partnerships from 2005.

As a senior registrar you will be supporting our customers at key stages of their lives, whether when registering a birth or a death, attesting a notice of marriage or civil partnership, or when performing ceremonies and sharing in the joy of the ensuing celebrations. And in making a permanent record of these events, you will be creating a permanent piece of the social history of Leeds.

If you enjoy working closely with members of the public there can be few more satisfying roles.

In delivering our services you will also be representing Leeds City Council so have the opportunity of displaying our values and demonstrating what a great service the council can provide to members of the local community. Best City Ambition

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

• a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
• membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
• a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
• a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role please contact Steve Coupe, Superintendent Registrar. Call  or email

This position requires a Baseline Personal Security Standard check. A Basic Check will be carried out on preferred candidates

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and…