Estate Team Leader

Sheffield City Council HQ; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is recruiting an Estate Team Leader to supervise and coordinate staff, lead on partnership working with internal teams and external partners, and ensure estates are well-maintained, safe and welcoming.

Based in the Estates and Environmental Services Team within Housing and Neighbourhoods, you will monitor service delivery, performance, health and safety, and support resident involvement through Tenant Inspectors.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision, guidance, and support to team members, fostering a positive and high-performance culture.
• Lead on partnership working with colleagues across the Council, external agencies, and community organisations to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Monitor the Grounds Maintenance Service Level Agreement, ensuring standards are met and services delivered effectively.
• Oversee the cleared sites contract, ensuring areas are managed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with Council requirements.
• Collaborate with Parks colleagues to maintain and improve safe, accessible, and welcoming Housing playgrounds.
• Liaise with, support, and coordinate Tenant Inspectors, encouraging active resident involvement and acting on their feedback to improve services.
• Monitor performance, conduct site visits, track compliance, and report on progress, ensuring all relevant health, safety, and environmental standards are upheld.

Job description

Sheffield City Council - Make a Difference in Your Community

Are you a motivated leader with a passion for delivering high-quality services in your community? Sheffield City Council is looking to recruit an Estate Team Leader who will play a pivotal role in shaping the environment and wellbeing of our neighbourhoods.

As the Estate Team Leader, you will be at the heart of our Housing and Neighbourhoods Service and based in our Estates and Environmental Services Team. You will be responsible for the effective supervision, management and coordination of several staff. You will be a key figure in partnership working, both internally and with a range of external stakeholders, ensuring that our estates are well-maintained, safe, and vibrant places to live.

• Provide supervision, guidance, and support to team members, fostering a positive and high-performance culture.
• Lead on partnership working with colleagues across the Council, external agencies, and community organisations to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Monitor the Grounds Maintenance Service Level Agreement, ensuring standards are met and services delivered effectively.
• Oversee the cleared sites contract, ensuring areas are managed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with Council requirements.
• Collaborate with Parks colleagues to maintain and improve safe, accessible, and welcoming Housing playgrounds.
• Liaise with, support, and coordinate Tenant Inspectors, encouraging active resident involvement and acting on their feedback to improve services.
• Monitor performance, conduct site visits, track compliance, and report on progress, ensuring all relevant health, safety, and environmental standards are upheld.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we'll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.