At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic team delivering essential equipment to residents in Gloucestershire.
- Company: Join Gloucestershire County Council and make a real difference in the community.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous annual leave, and supportive work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth and making a positive impact in your community.
- Why this job: Be a natural leader and help improve lives through logistics and teamwork.
- Qualifications: Experience in team leadership and logistics management required.
The predicted salary is between 33143 - 36363 £ per year.
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
Job Location: Hempsted, Gloucester
Salary: 33,143 - 36,363 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 09/07/2026
This post is not open to job share.
We are looking for a Logistics Team Leader to join our team! If you are a natural leader and have a passion for helping others this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Bring your passion to our service, delivering essential equipment to the residents of Gloucestershire, and make a tangible difference in their lives alongside your GELS colleagues.
About the Role:
Gloucestershire Equipment Loan Service (GELS) plays an important role in supporting the care sector in Gloucestershire, delivering community equipment on behalf of Health and Social Care to residents in Gloucestershire. Join our team as a Logistics Team Leader and take charge of a dynamic team responsible for orchestrating deliveries, collections and maintenance of crucial medical equipment. Your role involves supervising, coaching, and guiding a team of dedicated Logistic Assistants and Logistic Officers, ensuring seamless day to day operations and delivering excellent customer service.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and line manage a team of Logistic Officers (drivers) and Logistic Assistants (drivers assistants).
- Oversee the planning and allocation of work to the team.
- Ensure business needs and KPIs are met.
- Responsible for monitoring and improving performance and service standards.
This is a great opportunity to join an established and supportive team, making a difference to people in Gloucestershire. Our teams include customer service, warehouse, transport, logistics, equipment refurbishment and finance & administration and provides supported employment for people with disabilities who experience substantial barriers to employment. We have two sites, at Hempsted in Gloucester and Mitcheldean in the Forest of Dean.
About You:
We are looking for someone who has experience leading and managing a team. The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience as a Team Leader or Manager with a background in logistics and distribution.
- Passion, a great attitude, and cares about making a difference.
- Experience of line management, supervision, delegation, and performance assessment.
- Experience undertaking administration tasks, progress chasing and working to tight deadlines.
- The ability to work under pressure and deal positively with stressful situations.
- Motivational skills that give the team purpose and understanding of the role they play in achieving strategic outcomes.
Our values of accountability, integrity, empowerment, respect, and excellence are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about.
If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you!
We Offer:
Our people do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. And that's exactly what we aim to do for our people. Here are some of the ways we aim to achieve this:
25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years service, plus...
Logistics Team Leader 2, Permanent employer: Gloucestershire County Council
Gloucestershire County Council is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive work culture where your leadership can make a real impact on the lives of residents in Gloucestershire. With a commitment to employee growth and development, you will have access to extensive training opportunities and a generous benefits package, including up to 30.5 days of annual leave after five years of service. Join our dedicated team at the Gloucestershire Equipment Loan Service in Hempsted, where your passion for helping others will be valued and rewarded.
Contact Details:
Gloucestershire County Council Recruitment Team
