Do you bring the strategic leadership and operational expertise required to deliver high-performing, citizen-focused services in a complex local government environment?
Are you ready to lead a critical public service that directly enhances the quality of life for communities across the borough?
Is your ideal job one where operational excellence meets environmental ambition and no two days are ever the same?
Our Purpose
The Head of Street Scene leads the strategic delivery of essential front-line services including waste and recycling collections, street cleansing, and fleet and garage, ensuring they are efficient, sustainable, and community focused. The service exists to create cleaner, greener neighbourhoods while supporting the council's environmental goals through innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.
The Role
As Head of Street Scene, you'll be the driving force behind a bold and forward-thinking service. With strategic leadership at your core, you'll shape a positive, collaborative culture that puts people, residents, customers, communities, and our dedicated workforce at the heart of everything we do.
Your day-to-day will be anything but ordinary.
From designing and delivering service transformation to leading the council's fleet procurement and capital replacement programme, you'll ensure our operations are efficient, effective, and aligned with our environmental ambitions.
You'll build strong relationships with the workforce and colleagues and invest in partnerships, working with suppliers, public bodies, voluntary groups, and private sector partners to deliver real, measurable outcomes.
Your insight will help shape local and national thinking, as you provide strategic intelligence that drives operational improvements and informs future policy.
And when the unexpected happens, you'll be ready. You'll take the lead in emergency out-of-hours operations, ensuring our services respond swiftly and effectively, in line with our emergency plans and depot operations.
About You
You’ll bring specialist knowledge of front-line operations, waste and recycling collections, street cleansing, fleet, and garage services. With a strong track record in strategic planning and operational delivery, you know how to lead multi-functional teams with confidence and clarity. Your leadership style is both practical and visionary. You're comfortable navigating complex challenges, analyzing detailed information, and turning insights into smart, actionable solutions. Prioritizing under pressure? That's where you shine, balancing competing demands while keeping your eye on the bigger picture. You’ve successfully managed budgets and driven innovation in service delivery, including rethinking and implementing alternative delivery models. Whether delivering service transformation or leading change, you bring energy, expertise, and a results-driven mindset to everything you do.
Although the role profile states that a Certificate of Technical Competence in Waste Management is essential, we are keen to hear from candidates who are undertaking this or willing to work towards this.
Your Application
All applicants are advised to carefully read the information provided in the Role Profile and Person Specification. If you require an informal discussion about the role, please contact Kath Jickells.
Key Dates
Interview date: 18th June
We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.
We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.
Reward and Benefits
As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrollment into a local government pension.
You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform, which includes salary sacrifice schemes like Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra, and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, access to wellbeing support, free and discounted local parking, and savings at retailers, entertainment, and hotels.
NELC staff can benefit from flexible working, excellent training and development opportunities, and a Fostering friendly scheme.
Support
If you need help applying for this position, contact Wendy Trask at 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can assist with digital access and guidance on completing the application.
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