Job Description

Vacancy reference

ECR000444/445

Salary

Grade 6 - 28,598 to 31,022 per annum

Hours

37 hours per week.

Contract

Permanent

Location

Kutton Lane Depot, Newcastle-under-Lyme

About the job

Our team delivers high quality services, with a strong customer service ethos and a positive culture that promotes the wellbeing and health and safety of our people.


As a professional driver team leader you will lead a team of up to two crew members. You'll have a strong team ethos motivating your own team as well as working closely with other team leaders and crews to ensure efficient service completion. Day to day you'll be responsible for the completion of collection rounds and team health and safety, providing feedback relating to collections and any issues encountered, using the in-cab device and assisting with bin loading. You'll have excellent customer service skills dealing with our residents in a polite and professional manner and will be able to explain our services confidently. We'll pay for your ongoing CPC and training which will all be done during the working day. You'll have a sound health and safety knowledge of the industry, and will ensure that safe systems of work and incident reporting procedures are always followed.

If you're looking for an improvement to your work life balance, look no further. Here our drivers may start early but they also finish early (usually 2pm), giving you time to spend with family and friends or enjoying your favourite activities.

Requirements

Must be able to work weekends and Bank Holidays as required. You will have a current valid HGV Class 2/LGV C and current CPC card. Ideally, you'll have experience of stop-start HGV driving and manoeuvring in residential areas, have worked on collection services before and used in cab technology such as Bartec Collective. We know that services collecting waste from residents and businesses are changing, and that providing 'Green Skills' for our people is a future investment. Our culture is all about getting the best out of our team by providing a range of benefits to everyone. We expect good teamwork, and focus on being accountable, respectful, and inclusive and achieving our goals.

Why work for us?

Newcastle-under-Lyme is a borough with big ambitions. We've already started our transformation, however, we still need to find better ways of doing things because we are determined to do the very best we can for our communities.


If our vision is to be the best, then we need the best people working for us. Our people are at the heart of what we do and have the freedom to innovate, grow and develop. We recruit people who share our vision and values; people who have the drive to deliver our ambitious Council plan.


Our historic Borough is a place of marked contrasts. We are the home of a world class University at Keele, a leading light known internationally for its research and sustainability record, which stands side by side with former mining communities including some which register amongst the most deprived areas in the country. Our Borough is also a mixture of urban centres, affected by some of the same social issues facing our neighbouring city, Stoke-on-Trent, but also outstanding rural landscapes in our less populated villages. Our plans and priorities aim to address the needs of all our communities.

Our People Offer

We reward our people with a competitive range of benefits including; access to the local government pension scheme, minimum 24 days annual leave plus 5 extra days after 5 years' service, flexible working options and family friendly policies, local and national high street discounts, free car parking, wellbeing support including 12.50 per month Jubilee2 membership , green travel scheme including cycle to work and electric car salary sacrifice, free employee 24 hour employee assistance and counselling services, flu vaccination service and health checks plus development and training opportunities.

Contact

Please contact Connie Copeland,Connie.Copeland@newcastle-staffs.gov.uk Collections Manager, if you would like to discuss this opportunity further.

Closing date

5pm on Thursday 16 October 2025


Should we receive a large number of applications, then this post could close sooner than the date stated.


Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within two weeks of the closing date.

Interview date

Thursday 23 October 2025




We are committed to making our recruitment process as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the interview or assessment process please contact our People team (humanresources@newcastle-staffs.gov.uk)

Need help completing the online application form?

Our application form has recently been updated to make it easier to apply, please be aware that you are not able to save your application part way through so please ensure you have all information to hand;


Make a note of the details of the post you are applying for. Read through the job description and person specification. Review our values and behaviours. Ensure that you have relevant job application information to hand i.e. employment details, qualifications and training, professional memberships (if applicable) and the details of two referees. If you have a CV you can cut and paste information easily into the form. The supporting information section of the application is your opportunity to share with us your key achievements and highlight any relevant experience. We'd like you to tell us; who you are, your values and strengths, why you feel you are suitable for the role and finally, your career goals. We'd suggest typing your supporting information firstly to a Word document and then copy and paste to the supporting information section of the online application. This way you won't lose valuable information if the page times out. At the end of the form you can choose to save a copy of your application, we advise doing this. If you are interested in more than one role, you will need to submit a separate form for each job.

Contact our People team if you have any questions regarding the online application form or require further support (humanresources@newcastle-staffs.gov.uk)