Working Team Leader

This role is for you if you:

• Love working outdoors
• Care about Sheffield’s communities
• Have great customer service and people skills
• Can support others at work
• Work well in a team
• Like a mix of hands-on graft, planning & development
• Know your stuff when it comes to groundwork and horticulture

About the Role

As a Working Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in shaping, caring for and improving Sheffield’s parks, gardens, and public realm. You’ll lead a grounds maintenance team within a geographical area of the city – working hands‑on and using your expertise to ensure our green spaces look their very best. You’ll combine people leadership, horticultural skills, and great customer service to deliver a high‑quality, safe spaces for our residents and visitors.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading, motivating, and organising a grounds maintenance team across Sheffield.
• Carrying out a full range of horticultural and environmental maintenance tasks—including turf care, sports field upkeep, planting, and soft/hard landscape maintenance.
• Ensuring work is completed safely, on time, to specification and to a high standard.
• Supporting the training and development of staff, seasonal workers, trainees, and volunteers.
• Working positively with local communities, tenant/resident groups, and partner organisations to enhance green spaces.
• Responding to customer enquiries and helping resolve issues with professionalism and care.
• Managing machinery, plant and equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience supervising staff, volunteers or community groups within a green‑space, horticultural or grounds‑maintenance environment.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety and safe systems of work, ideally including grounds maintenance machinery.
• Great organisational skills, the ability to prioritise, and confidence working both independently and as part of a team.
• Good communication and customer service skills, with the ability to deal professionally with the public.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• A full clean driving licence.

Our Values

We’re looking for someone who shares our values:

• People are at the heart of what we do
• We believe in openness and honesty
• Together we get things done

Why Join Us?

• Make a real, visible difference in Sheffield’s much‑loved parks and public spaces.
• Be part of a supportive, hands‑on team committed to quality and community.
• Develop your leadership and technical skills through ongoing training and experience.
• Work outdoors in a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same.

Further information on this post can be obtained by contacting:

E-mail – [email protected]

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.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

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.

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.

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.