29599 - Team Leader - Combined Packaging Team

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. You will join the wider leadership group the Waste Regimes Department part 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'. Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM As a Team Leader you will lead a team of Officers to deliver our outcomes. You will lead a dispersed team and be responsible for service delivery, performance and resilience 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.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate some of 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.