Salary: £33,143 - £36,363 a year
Hours: 37 hours a week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Stores Road, Derby
Closing Date: 2 August 2026
We're looking for a talented team leader to help us deliver a first-class service to our customers. You will manage our administrative Operational Support team day to day, getting the best from your team, enabling customer issues to be resolved upon first contact and providing consistent customer care.
We collect 200,000 bins per week in Derby and manage over 100,000 tonnes of household waste per year. You'll be supporting the delivery of a vital front-line service which reaches all households across Derby.
We may be biased, but there has never been a more exciting time to work in waste. Recent changes about how local authorities collect waste, as well as increasing awareness of the impact our consumption of stuff has on the climate, means there is much to do! This is your opportunity to make a difference to the local community and environment.
The Opportunity
In the role of StreetPride Operational Support Supervisor , here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
You will supervise a small customer focused administrative and operational support team, ensuring tasks get done as required and to standard.
You will be responsible for all aspects of management, ranging from day-to-day issues and compliance, to managing performance, development, wellbeing, health and safety etc, as well as following process to manage issues such as attendance and capability.
You’ll be confident in the use of IT and will become a Whitespace superuser, a go to member of the team to support colleagues. Whitespace is our business-critical system, used to schedule and manage the frontline waste service. Your capabilities with systems will enable you to support with Whitespace improvements and system maintenance. You will also appreciate the importance of processes and following these, so that you can confidently train and share this knowledge with colleagues.
You will lead and support the team managing customer and councillor enquiries relating to waste services, resolving service issues, advising on policy, escalations and keeping our systems up to date. You will assist customers via email, over the phone, or via letter.
You will review how customer service and operational support tasks are delivered and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. We're keen to use the insight available to us, embrace technology, automating processes where possible.
The role is based at Stores Road Depot, the home of StreetPride services. You will work in an open office with other colleagues who provide a range of functions for the waste team.
About You
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...
You will be experienced at supervising a small team. You will manage the team day-to-day, organising and overseeing various work streams and ensuring they are delivered consistently to a high standard.
Resolving requests for service and customer complaints, at the earliest opportunity, will be your forte. You’ll be able to work with operational colleagues and other teams to identify solutions to service issues. In addition, you will be a great communicator, both verbally and in writing, and able to address issues with courtesy and compassion.
It is essential you are confident in the use of IT generally, workplace systems and MS Office and can grasp new systems with ease, to a high level. You will be experienced at supporting and training colleagues, helping them to understand systems and processes.
You will feel comfortable designing new administrative processes or proposing opportunities to streamline and improve existing ones. You'll have the people skills to implement and deliver change within the service, supporting colleagues through training and coaching.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
- Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
- Hybrid working (depending on your role)
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
- Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract)
- Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on Sunday 2 August. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held: on 12th & 14th August 2026, in person at Stores Road Depot in Derby. The interview will consist of a short test followed by an interview.
If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to
[email protected]. Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to
[email protected], however this is optional and will not affect your application.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Before you complete your application, please read ourguidance on filling in your application form.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at
[email protected]https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
