Monitoring Field Team Leader - Wallingford

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and inspirational person to lead the National Monitoring Field Team in Oxford, based at Wallingford. You will manage and be responsible for a dispersed front-line team who collect a variety of chemical, physical and biological samples surrounding Oxford, to deliver the National and Area environmental monitoring programmes. Being organised and confident in dealing with a wide range of customers and stakeholders is important and you will be responsible for the performance of your team, developing and motivating them to deliver results to strict time and quality targets, whilst ensuring their health, safety and wellbeing.You will develop team members to ensure effective delivery of the monitoring programme in Oxford. Ensuring appropriate skill levels are developed and maintained and team performance is optimised in line with specified goals.You will be responsible for the health, safety & wellbeing of your team by actively promoting awareness and ensuring the provision of safe working practices in line with Environment Agency guidance. You will be a role model and promote inclusion by respecting differences in our workforce and build a supportive & engaging workplace.There will also be opportunity to support the Environment Agency’s Incident response. A full UK driving licence is essential for this role as regular travel around Oxford will be required.We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated applicants. You should have the ability to provide leadership to motivate and inspire your team to deliver the monitoring programme in Yorkshire. Experience and knowledge of the Environment Agency’s monitoring programmes would be an advantage, but it is not essential. More important is that you will have excellent communication skills and you will know how to lead, motivate and develop your team so that they can be their best. You will also need experience of managing the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of others, ideally in a dispersed or field based setting. You support people through change and create an environment that encourages creativity, innovation and improving efficiency.You will champion Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the team.