Street Cleansing Team Leader

Street Services - improving residents' lives

Help keep Royal Greenwich clean and green - kick start your career with a role in Street Services in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Street Services provide a highly visible frontline service to all the borough's residents, business and visitors from sweeping roads to collecting household and businesses waste bins. This vital frontline service has a huge impact on residents, the community and cleanliness of the public realm.

We are looking for motivated individuals to apply for our Street Cleansing Team Leader roles.

This position requires a full clean manual C1 category licence and CPC.

Responsibilities

• A team of Barrow Sweeping Operatives


• Emptying Street litter bins and removing bags


• Sweeping shop fronts


• Removing fly tips

You will be working within an area-based location between the hours of 6am and 8pm, Monday to Friday including weekends and Bank Holidays on a Contractual overtime basis.

Salary

£40,577 - £41,870 (Includes London weighting, contractual overtime IVA and Laundry allowance).

Benefits

• Training and development opportunities


• 28 days' annual leave a year rising to 31 after 5 years' service

Diversity Statement

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close

All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary Clarification

Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator' to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Staff Values

Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.

Job Details

• Salary £40,547 - £41,870 (includes additional allowances)


• Job Reference royalgreenwich/TP/1335/546


• Contract Type Fixed-term


• Closing Date 17 January, 2026


• Job Category Waste management


• Business Unit Communities, Environment and Central (CEC)


• Level of Disclosure and Barring Service, DBS, check required No DBS