Salary: Grade G £33,143 - £36,363 a year
Location: Shot Tower, Derby
Hours: 37 hours a week. Mon to Fri covering between 07:30am – 23:30pm
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 06th September 2026
As a Team Leader in our Civil & Digital Enforcement service, you will be at the centre of keeping Derby’s streets safe, accessible and well-managed for residents, businesses and visitors. Every day you will see the positive impact of your work, guiding a frontline team that helps to keep traffic moving, supports fair use of parking, and contributes to a safer, more welcoming city environment.
This Team Leader opportunity offers the chance to develop your leadership skills in a busy, varied and people-focused setting, where no two days are the same. If you have a talent for motivating others, making confident decisions and staying calm under pressure, this Team Leader role will give you the platform to grow, with support from experienced managers and access to wider career pathways across the service. As a Team Leader, you will join a collaborative, supportive management team that works together to solve problems, improve services and deliver real benefits for the community.
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities.Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.
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
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- 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
The Opportunity
In the role of Civil Enforcement Operational Team Leader, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
- Lead a team of digital enforcement officers, making sure day to day operations and checks are carried out safely, fairly, and in line with parking and traffic regulations.
- Plan staff rotas, monitor workloads and quality, and use information (for example, reports or complaint trends) to spot problems and improve how the service runs.
- Coach and support team members, giving feedback, training and guidance so they can handle difficult situations confidently and provide a professional service to the public.
- Deal with complex or sensitive issues, such as; formal complaints, and escalated queries, ensuring they are resolved in a calm and consistent way.
- Work closely with colleagues in other services and external partners (for example, town centre managers or event organisers) to coordinate enforcement activity, including at busy times and special events.
- Prepare clear records and reports, which may include statements or evidence packs, to support formal processes and ensure decisions can be reviewed and justified if challenged.
About You
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...
- Proven experience of supervising or leading staff in an operational or customer-focused environment, including planning work and monitoring performance.
- Strong people management skills, with the ability to motivate a team, give clear instructions and provide constructive feedback and support.
- Experience of dealing with challenging situations, including conflict or complaints, and resolving issues in a calm, fair and professional way.
- Good understanding of working within set policies, procedures and legislation, with the ability to make sound, evidence-based decisions.
- Confident communicator, able to build effective working relationships with team members, managers, partners and members of the public.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise, manage competing demands and maintain accurate records and reports.
- Competent IT skills, including the use of standard office software and the ability to learn service-specific systems.
- Flexible, proactive approach to work, including a willingness to work different shifts and locations as service needs require.
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on Sunday 6th September 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held: In person at Shot Tower, Morledge, Derby DE1 2AW, on the 21st and 22nd September 2026).
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 our guidance 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/
