Developing Your Skills
Local Environmental Management (LEM) is a complex sector that hosts a wide range of job and career opportunities. LEM is a term used to bring together the services involved in providing attractive local environments. These services, which include street cleansing, environmental education and enforcement, are only as good as the people delivering them.
Progressive local authorities and private sector organisations look to reward talent and good performance through helping employees to advance themselves.
Whether you are a Street Cleansing Operative or a Director of Environmental Services, this site aims to provide everyone working in the Sector with an opportunity to gain new skills and increase their knowledge.
The benefits of doing so can include:
- Enhancing your chances of career progression
- Broadening the job opportunities that you are suitable for
- Being able to meet the toughest challenges that your job throws at you
- Gain satisfaction and motivation through improving your performance at work
How do you get the skills you need?
Localenvironmentskills.org promotes training and other skills opportunities from providers within the LEM sector.
Using the skills diagnostic tool, we can map skill requirements against the tasks you undertake. To help you to attain those skills, localenvironmentskills.org has a catalogue of learning opportunities and supporting information to help you to evaluate whether any will support your particular requirements. Please read the disclaimer
How do we know which skills are required throughout the LEM sector?
We have researched extensively the roles within LEM and the functions that are undertaken within the sector.
The Government has established Sector Skills Councils to represent the various skills needs of employers and their employees. LEM is largely represented by Asset Skills who have produced Occupational and Functional maps (PDF Format). This is a process that identifies all of the different job roles from Cleansing Operative to Service Director and every single function from street sweeping to developing a Service Strategy.
The maps were produced by asking people within the sector what they do and how they do it. They have given us the opportunity to identify all of the skills required to be successful in completing the nominated tasks.
How do we know how you would like skills delivered?
We have researched the triggers and barriers (see below for a link to the report) to skills development within the Sector. Part of this process involved speaking to employers and employees about suitable training formats. The results demonstrated to us that we had to provide opportunities in a number of ways to cater for everyone’s needs.
We have listened to what you requested and are working with training providers to ensure that offerings include:
- Training courses
- Formal qualifications
- Workshops
- Seminars and guidance
- Web based support
- Written Materials
