Customer Services Team Leader (2C-GPR South London/Metro) (3192)
- Salary:£37,200 + Regional Allowance + Sundays
- Location:Balham, Clapham Junction, Peckham Rye, Selhurst, Streatham
- Contract Type:Permanent
- Closing Date:9 October 2025
- Training Salary:£24,500 rising to £37,200
Key Info
Role: 2C GPR
Location: South London Metro Stations (Streatham, Balham, Peckham & more)
Contract: Full Time, averaging 35 hours per week + Rostered Sundays
Roster: Earlies, Lates & Nights - 24 hour coverage
- As the GPR, one day you could be covering Platform, the next Gateline or Salespoint duties.
- You could be working any of the shifts (early, late or nights) and any of the duties required for the above roles with the roster published on a Thursday to cover the following week.
- Covering stations across the South London area, you must be able to be flexible.
- These roles cover 24 hour operation, due to the shift times you must live in the local area and have available transport to ensure that you arrive at the station for the first shift and work your last shift as required as there may not always be a train service available.
Are you an experienced Team Leader?
Do you also enjoy working in a customer facing position?
As our General Purpose Relief (GPR) you get to do both:
- You will be passionate about delivering outstanding customer service each and every time, a role model for others to follow.
- You must be also comfortable and effective in leading your team, of up to 20 and providing them the support and development they need to enable them to perform their roles effectively
Through you and your team, our vision is to provide our customers with a welcoming, seamless, well-informed, consistent and relaxed travel experience. One which will encourage additional and repeat business whilst ensuring our customers consistently talk about our service positively. Key to your role, at all times, is being visible and anticipating the needs of the customer to meet their expectations. You and your team will often be the first point of contact our customers will meet on their journey.
All roles may involve standing for long periods of time, working weekends and bank holidays.
Platform based roles are safety critical due to the direct involvement with the operational railway.
Experience / Skills / Requirements
- A demonstrable ability to engage, lead and motivate your team
- A positive approach coupled with passion and ability to support and develop your team
- Demonstrable experience of managing customers effectively in difficult environments.
- You must be able to demonstrate a high level of numerical ability.
- An effective communicator and must be able to demonstrate this both through your application and or assessments.
- Able to make decisions in a customer focused manner and carry out instructions effectively.
What you'll get:
Living locally, you'll have a short commute. You will also get a good salary, once trained, in addition to our excellent benefits package which includes 32 days annual leave per year and a final salary pension scheme. In addition to this, you'll get free travel across our networks and 75% discount off other train service providers and leisure travel for your spouse/partner and dependents.
Benefits

Pension

Staff Travel

Childcare Vouchers

Extra Holidays

Discount Scheme

Long Service Awards

Employee Assistance Programme

The Transport Benevolent Fund

In-House Occupational Health Department

Cycle to Work Scheme
Testimonials
What our staff say
“I work as part of the Fleet Infrastructure team, which means ensuring our 18 Engineering locations operate safely and efficiently. We oversee all building and track maintenance works as well as various minor and major projects across the network.”
Hannah Richards
Fleet Infrastructure Administrator
“I started in a small ticket office back in 1996 and have continued to work my way up ever since. A previous manager told me about a job he’d seen advertised for a trainer. ’d never considered a job in HR or mentoring before then, but he said I’d be perfect for it and I haven’t looked back since!”
Zoey Hudson
Head of Talent, Diversity and Inclusion
“Since April, I’ve helped to support our Kickstart Scheme. It’s been a really rewarding process to be part of because I know first-hand how tough it can be to find work once you’re out of it.”
Jack Gow
Mobile Station Manager
“I love the freedom that comes with being a train driver. Obviously, there are rules and regulations to follow as well as duties and commitments to carry out, but in a way, you’re sort of your own boss, which is nice.”
Ashley John
Train Driver
“I’m a Thameslink passenger host and team leader based at Luton station and I’m currently doing a Level 3 Supervisor apprenticeship so that I can improve my skills even further. I was hesitant to do the apprenticeship at first because of my age – I left school over 60 years ago without any qualifications! It’s been hard to get back into the routine of learning again.”
Bob Bryce
Passenger Host Team Leader
“It was my brother’s suggestion to join the railway. He was already working in the industry and knew I had some university bills to pay off so told me to give it a go, get out of debt and see what I wanted to do next. After a while, it just felt like actually – this is exactly where I’m meant to be. I’m part of a great team and the on-board department as a whole are brilliant to work with. I feel at home here.”
Tonderai Matizha-Johnson
Area Operations Manager
“When I saw that GTR was advertising places for its apprenticeship scheme I looked into it straight away because I thought it was a great opportunity to learn whilst getting real life experience in a 9-5 job. I applied for a level three business administration apprenticeship and was thrilled to find out I had a place on the course! I was so excited that I didn’t even mind it was based 250 miles away from where I lived.”
Harriet Dee
Team Administrator
“Working for GTR is very rewarding and fulfilling. You really feel like you're making a difference to customers, no matter what role you're in as at the end of the day they're the heart of our business. I’ve had lots of opportunities to explore other aspects of the business including supporting our station staff and gaining my Train Dispatch Licence which has been enriching for my experience here.”
Maggie Luckhurst
Platform / Train Dispatch
“If you’ve always had an interest in rail, or maybe you’re just curious to find out what working in the railway might look like, GTR is the operator to go for. Not many companies do an official work experience program and this unique opportunity will give you a good grounding with varied activities to help you find the best place in the railway for you. It certainly did it for me.”
Nathaniel Owen
Station Manager