Enforcement Team Leader

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.

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.

• 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

• 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

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

• 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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