Team Leader - Combined Packaging Regime - South East - 30819
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Job Description
Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
The Team Leader role will be based in one of our waste teams within the Combined Packaging Regimes department of Environmental Markets and Regulation. We’re a national team with officers based across England, ensuring a consistent regulatory approach across the country.
As a department, we ensure that companies are disposing of their waste correctly by enforcing government regulations—‘right waste, right place’.
You will be key to leading, managing, and supporting your team to enable them to fulfil their roles of delivering compliance and enforcement within your area.
As a Team Leader, you will lead a team of Officers to deliver outcomes.
Please note that this role will be based in the South East.
Everyone starting in a new role with the Environment Agency will be welcomed into the team and given all the training and support you need to succeed.
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role. This may attract an additional payment.
Please see the candidate pack for further information.
The team
Environmental Markets and Regulation is a supportive and inclusive department that encourages our teams’ health, safety, wellbeing, and development. We aim to improve the quality of recycling and ensure waste entering and leaving the country is handled appropriately for recycling and recovery. We help to protect and improve the environment by regulating industry, ensuring compliance, and eliminating illegal activities.
Key areas we regulate: Packaging Waste, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Batteries, and International Waste Shipments.
Experience/skills Required
You will lead a dispersed team and be responsible for service delivery, performance, and resilience.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
* The ability to lead a diverse group of people.
* Enthusiasm to improve how we do things.
* Excellent communication skills to engage with teams and individuals with a range of personalities and abilities.
* Leading change successfully and identifying opportunities to improve.
* The ability to deliver high-priority work through your teams.
* A positive attitude, alongside a genuine desire to support others.
* Ability to manage completing workloads and to prioritise your own personal development, as well as that of your team members.
* Managing the health, safety, and well-being of yourself and others.
* Ability to deliver results through others by monitoring the delivery of targets, managing many priorities, and conflicting demands.
* Build and maintain productive relations to achieve environmental benefits.
Contact and additional information
We offer an attractive and competitive benefits package including:
* A fantastic pension scheme, competitive salary, flexible working, and a starting annual leave allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays (pro rata). For more information, please see the candidate pack.
* Interviews are expected between June 2nd and June 13th face-to-face, subject to change. Further details will be communicated nearer the time.
* You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. The Environment Agency utilises a hybrid working approach, including office and home working. Regular travel within your base area and for training and meetings is expected.
* We may use the outcomes from this recruitment for future vacancies within the next 6 months.
* For an informal discussion, please contact amy.reeves@environment-agency.gov.uk
Competence 1: Communicates Effectively
Description: Listens and questions to understand and engage. Conveys information and ideas clearly, accurately, and persuasively through speech and writing. You will be developing a team of new Officers to undertake regulatory action. Tell us about a time you have used effective communication to deliver a message.
Competence 2: Delivers Results Through Others
Description: Harnesses the team to deliver results on time, to required standards, and in line with organisational processes and procedures. You will be leading and coaching a team to achieve a common goal. Tell us about a time you have delivered results through others.
Competence 3: Manages Change
Description: Understands role in leading change. Successfully leads change in own team. You will be working in an environment where change is common and needs to be prepared for. Tell us about a time you have managed a team through change.
Role-specific license requirements: Full UK Driving License.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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