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32337 - Team Leader Permanent

Job details
Posting date: 17 November 2025
Salary: £43,198 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 30 November 2025
Location: Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week
Company: Environment Agency
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 32337

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Summary

Working as a Team Leader in Contact Centre Services (CCS) means joining a friendly, diverse team working together to create better places for people and wildlife.
If you’re part of the Environment Agency (EA), you’re part of the solution. Working with us means protecting and improving the environment and tackling issues of national importance. Our responsibilities span industry regulation, flood defences, land contamination, water quality, fisheries and conservation across England.
Contact Centre Services (CCS) is the first point of contact for many of the Environment Agency's customers. We manage over half a million contacts with customers every year.
We are looking for team members who are enthusiastic and self-motivated to lead our Customer Service Advisors. These vacancies are opportunities to lead and manage teams in our National Customer Contact Centre and the Incident Communication Service.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a front-line team where your actions and decisions make a real difference for the customers we serve. Whether you are an experienced team leader looking for an opportunity to broaden your experience by participating in the delivery of a customer facing national service, or an aspiring team leader who wants to grow their skill in leading people and managing services.
Your positive, visible, and creative leadership style will motivate and inspire the team to achieve successful environmental results whilst providing excellent customer service. With excellent people skills you will provide leadership for your teams' health, safety and wellbeing as well as ensure their personal development.
You will also develop a network of contacts within the organisation as you lead administrative processes delivered by your team.

The team

Did we mention that we are a friendly team? We will welcome you with a comprehensive induction package and introduction to our vibrant culture. We are committed to inclusivity. You will have the opportunity to join one of our many staff support groups, which include BAME Networks, Women's Networks, and LGBT+ Networks. The health, safety, and wellbeing of every member of our team is important to us.

Experience/skills required

The successful candidate will:
have the ability to lead, motivate, support and develop a team of customer service advisors
provide clear direction to the team on key priorities especially when we are in incident
be passionate about people, both in your team and with our customers, and have good communication and influencing skills
be able to demonstrate leadership to deliver outcomes through others
have excellent customer service skills and experience of delivering work in a fast-paced environment
have experience of influencing others to achieve outcomes.

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