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We Are St Helens Borough Council

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as an Environmental Team Leader in Place Services

As an Environmental Team Leader, you will be responsible for delivering a quality recycling and waste operation across the borough to support the local community. You will work closely with the Environmental Team Managers to ensure safe collection of scheduled recycling and waste collections.

You will work as part of a team to complete daily routes to ensure the local area is in a clean and tidy state.

A good understanding of recycling and waste collection procedures will aid you in this role. As well as being comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions.

You must ensure you follow safe working practices and health & safety policy. You must be comfortable and confident in being able to communicate with managers, colleagues, and members of the public as necessary in accordance with council policy.

The duties of this post will be carried out on a Thursday and Friday.

Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early with sufficient application numbers, please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Must be flexible for all services within recycling and waste, and have an up to date CPC card.

Equality & Diversity

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. The Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within selection.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles

St Helens Council is officially recognised as one of the region’s leading fair employers, achieving accredited status under the Liverpool City Combined Authority Fair Employment Charter. The Charter recognises the ongoing commitment to fair pay, secure work, training & progression & staff well-being whilst celebrating employers who go above and beyond for their workforce providing an inclusive and supportive environment.