Enforcement Team Leader, RIBBONS & REEVES HOUSING Full Time NEW

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We’re Hiring: Enforcement Team Leader

London | Local Authority

£250 – £280 per day (depending on experience)

Are you an experienced enforcement, environmental protection, community safety, or policing professional ready to lead from the front and make a visible impact across one of London’s most vibrant communities?

We’re recruiting for a passionate and driven ASB Enforcement Manager to support the delivery of safer, cleaner, and stronger neighbourhoods across South London.

About The Role

This is a frontline operational leadership role within Public Protection & Regulatory Services, responsible for delivering high-profile environmental enforcement, public protection, and community safety functions across public spaces.

You’ll lead a high-performing Response Team of five, balancing reactive demand with intelligence-led proactive enforcement activity to tackle:

• Anti-Social Behaviour
• Fly-tipping, littering, graffiti & fly-posting
• Noise nuisance & out-of-hours reactive response
• Unlicensed street trading
• Waste Duty of Care & highways enforcement
• Public nuisance and environmental crime

You’ll also coordinate hotspot operations, support borough-wide crime prevention initiatives, oversee enforcement investigations and prosecution files, and work closely with residents, councillors, police, businesses, and partner agencies.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and motivating frontline enforcement officers
• Managing reactive out-of-hours noise services
• Delivering intelligence-led and data-driven enforcement operations
• Managing complex investigations, enforcement action, interviews, and prosecution case files
• Driving service improvement, performance, and operational excellence
• Supporting staff wellbeing, development, recruitment, and performance management
• Representing the service at community forums, operational meetings, and partnership groups

What We’re Looking For

• Strong leadership and people management experience
• Background in environmental enforcement, public protection, regulatory services or community safety
• Experience managing investigations and enforcement activity
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and enforcement procedures
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• A proactive, resilient, and solutions-focused mindset

Highly Desirable:

• Experience working within enforcement-led operational environments
• Experience managing high-profile or complex anti-social behaviour investigations
• Previous Police or Law Enforcement background

Essential Legislative Knowledge:

• Environmental Protection Act 1990
• Highways Act 1980
• ASB, Crime and Policing Act 2014
• London Local Authorities Act 1990 (as amended)

This role involves evening, weekend, and out-of-hours working, including up to 21 hours of paid overtime per month, in line with service requirements.

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