13 Oct
South Gloucestershire Council
Yate
As Trading Standards Team Leader, you will be responsible for the management and delivery of services aimed at protecting the health of our residents, businesses and communities by providing statutory trading standards services.
Managing a team of 9 staff, you will be accountable for the effective delivery of value for money and responsive services. By leading a balanced delivery of a risk-based service provision, involving both preventive and reactive actions, your work will protect consumers, businesses and the environment.
What you will be doing
- You will provide input to the preparation of plans and budgets for the service, taking account of external developments and priorities, ensuring work is completed to set time scales.
- Using your experience and knowledge, you will organise the work and budgets in specialist areas, to ensure targets are achieved and that work meets the required standards.
- It will be your responsibility to motivate and develop a team, leading complex projects with overall responsibility for technical enforcement and regulation services.
- It will be key for you to prepare and present reports on complex issues, ensuring reports are completed on time and provide a clear summary of issues, progress and implications.
This post is restricted to permanent and temporary employees of South Gloucestershire Council only.
What we need from you
- It is essential you hold a professional qualification and ideally a management qualification at NVQ level 4, or you have equivalent relevant experience of managing service delivery.
- Given the elements of this role, you will have in depth knowledge of trading standards and service issues.
- We require you to have financial experience,
sufficient to manage budgets.
- You will have excellent report writing skills and the ability to explain technical information to non-technical audiences.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected,
promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
- We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
We've achieved a great deal,
but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
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▶️ Internal Only - Trading Standards Team Leader
🖊️ South Gloucestershire Council
📍 Yate