Local Environment Team Leader

Are you passionate about the local environment and the community benefits it provides? 

If the answer is yes, then an exciting opportunity exists for you within Environment, Housing & Leisure.  Local Environmental Services are looking to appoint a highly motivated and experienced Team Leader.

You will manage a front-line team of arborists. You will be required to assist the maintenance of North Tyneside’s tree stock in accordance with the Tree Management Objectives, good practice, British Standards, safety standards and all legislation and deal with technical and day to day enquiries linked to the trees, woodlands and waggonways located in North Tyneside. You will be required to engage with users in the local community. You will need to be able to work independently and use your own initiative to provide benefit for all users of the park. You will work proactively with all members of the wider team including external agencies.

You will be working alongside existing Team Leaders and providing support to the Operational Managers. The role includes responsibility for Health and Safety and safe working practices in respect of the service. You will be a role model to the team and will also be able to demonstrate excellent customer care skills in this environment.

The successful candidates should be able to display excellent leadership, communication and customer care skills, and demonstrate a commitment to delivering high quality customer focused environmental services; providing clean, safe and tidy places to an agreed standard within all parts of the borough to ensure North Tyneside is a place in which people want to work, live and visit.

The posts will predominantly be responsible for the day to day delivery of grounds maintenance services with regards to trees but may be required to cover across different areas of the Street Environment Service including Street Cleansing, Waste Collection, Neighbourhood Delivery, and Parks & Allotments.

You will be involved in a wide range of duties therefore you must be able to prioritise tasks and work to tight deadlines.

If you have the appropriate skills and have existing Team Leader experience and want to make a difference, we would like to hear from you.

For an informal chat or more information please contact Nicola Grogan on 0191 643 7484.

North Tyneside Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

In addition, staff and volunteers are expected to familiarise themselves with all relevant policies, procedures and guidance in relation to safeguarding children and safe practice with vulnerable adults. Within North Tyneside, safeguarding is everybody’s business.

To apply for this position please click on the following link

North East Jobs - 4737 Local Environment Team Leader

Closing date: 12 September 2021.