Team Leader

**Team Leader - Combined Packaging Regime - East Midlands - 30821**:
**Team Leader - Combined Packaging Regime - East Midlands - 30821**
Number of jobs available
1Region
East MidlandsCity/Town
NottinghamBuilding/Site
DEFRA GRP EA TRENTSIDE OFFICE, NG2 5FAGrade
Staff Grade 5Post Type
PermanentRole Type
Operational DeliveryWorking Pattern
Full Time, Part Time, OtherSalary Minimum
£41,617Closing Date:

05/05/2025, 23:55 hours
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Basic Check- 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, enabling them to fulfil their roles delivering compliance and enforcement within your area.

As a Team Leader, you will lead a team of Officers to deliver outcomes.

Please note that these roles will be based in the East Midlands.

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.

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.- 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 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

You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. The Environment Agency utilise a
hybrid working approach, including office and home working. Regular travel within your base area and
travelling for training and meetings in is expected.

We may use the outcomes from this recruitment for future vacancies within the next 6 months.- 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 Officer’s 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