Team Leader

**General Information**:

- Salary
- £29,303 - £31,061
- Working Pattern
- Full Time, Part Time
- Vacancy Approach
- External
- Location
- Blackburn, Preston
- Region
- North West
- Closing Date
- 26-Sep-2025
- Post Type
- Fixed Term, Loan
- Civil Service Grade
- EO
- Number of jobs available
- 2
- Reserve List
- 12 Months
- Job ID
- 9733

**Descriptions & requirements**:

- Job description

**Proud to serve. Proud to keep justice going.**

Our Team Leaders play a critical role in helping deliver justice, this role will enable you to demonstrate and develop your leadership skills. You are responsible for making sure your team deliver excellent administrative support and customer service to service users, judiciary and management.

**About us**

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family Courts and Tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our service users and colleagues within HMCTS, w people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and making a difference in people’s lives to deliver justice. If you are interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.

**Your role**

Leading your team, you’ll focus on the team’s area of work, making sure that work is prioritised and organised and your team fully skilled to meet objectives. As an effective Team Leader, you recognise the importance of the team’s overall wellbeing and can motivate your team to succeed.

You will contribute to the delivery of operational, performance and service standard targets and provide statistical data for the management team and judiciary. Your keen eye for detail and desire for continuous improvement is key to your success. Monitoring and analysing performance areas and trends, conducting ongoing reviews of procedures and work practices is essential, as is your ability to successfully recommend improvements, navigate change and manage the implementation of new initiatives and legislation.

This is a challenging and rewarding role, key to the smooth running of operational functions throughout HMCTS. We’re committed to helping you develop your leadership skills, through our HMCTS leadership offer. This provides a wide range of activities from development programmes to accessible bite-size guides to help build your ability and confidence to lead, guide and inspire others.

**Your skills and experience**
- Ability to motivate and support your team to deliver excellent customer service and achieve effective performance.
- Experience of working in an administrative role in a customer-focussed environment
- IT proficient with the ability to learn and adapt to different technologies and software packages.
- Excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills

Please refer to the job description attachment for more information.

**Further details**:
New recruits to the Civil Service joining MoJ are expected to join at the band minimum.

These operational roles are customer facing, requiring successful applicants to be office based to provide HMCTS services to the public.

Applications for part-time working would be considered however due to the nature of the role the minimum hours would be 30 hours per week over 5 days.

T are **2** posts available:
**1 x Preston Combined Court Centre**

**1 x Blackburn Magistrates’ Court**

The base location for this role is Blackburn Magistrates’ Court with possible travel to Burnley Magistrates’ Court (BB11 2BS) one day a week.

**Fixed term appointments (FTA) on promotion**

**Loans/Detached Duty**

**Skilled Worker Visa**

The Department cannot consider sponsoring you for this role unless you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously since before 22 July 2025. If you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously, please raise this during your vetting checks and eligibility will be assessed in accordance with the immigration rules and transitional provisions in place.

The Department will continue to comply with UK Immigration Rules applied in the UK and Civil Service. **You can read more about Skilled Worker visas and the eligibility criteria.**
- Additional Information

**Working Arrangements & Further Information**

For current MoJ employees, your base location will need to be changed to the nearest viable office (to your home postcode), either at a HQ building, JCC or JSO within the National Office Network and moved its location’s respective pay scale (any legacy arrangements/locations will need to be amended).

**Flexible working hours**

**Benefits**

The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
**Annual Leave**

Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.

T is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on