Technical Team Leader

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 374619**Salary**:

- £33,590 - £36,000- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- 12 months**Business area**:

- APHA - Operational Delivery**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Chelmsford, Norwich, Wallingford, Welwyn Garden City, WinchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
APHA is a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

Do you want a role safeguarding standards of animal and plant health and welfare?

Are you someone who can lead and manage change in a challenging and dynamic environment?

Do you have the ability to influence others and guide your team in a shared strategy?

**If so, we would love to hear from you**

**Job description**:
We currently have two Fixed Term Appointments available until 2nd February 2026, offering exciting opportunities as Technical Team Leaders to join our England Field Delivery Team.

As a confident and inspiring Technical Team Leader (TTL), you will lead and manage a team of technical staff within APHA, helping to protect animal health, safeguard animal welfare and facilitate International Trade.

This is an exciting, varied, and high-profile role that will also require you to regularly liaise with our wider APHA colleagues, policy colleagues and operational partners, as well as create a positive team environment in which everyone can, and does, contribute.

You will be a visible leader, ensuring that a clear vision and direction are communicated to your team. You will organise the delivery of a wide range of work in your geographical area and build a network of support across teams.

The role involves a wide range of responsibilities including; but not limited to, the following:

- Lead and line manage a team of local and geographically dispersed technical staff, which will require travel to multiple sites, ensuring effective and efficient deployment to meet delivery requirements.
- During outbreaks of notifiable disease, participate as directed to contribute to the control and the eradication of the disease including participating part in rosters for detached duty in other parts of Great Britain.
- Be responsible for the day-to-day effectiveness of resource management, prioritising resources and workloads across the team to achieve delivery targets. You will be accountable for ensuring your teams capability to meet performance expectations and respond to emergencies and disease outbreaks.
- Maintain a team culture that enables your team to work effectively on a local and agency-wide basis, by encouraging consistency and best practice nationally.
- Work collaboratively across the agency and with policy colleagues to help influence tactical and strategic decision making.
- Ensure your team works effectively with operational partners and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with functional leadership (specifically Resilience & Technical Advisors & Government Technical Advisors for Eggs & Poultry Meat Marketing) to ensure the team meets technical quality standards, procedures and policies, consistently identifying and addressing any development needs.
- Use management information to monitor, analyse and manage outputs against expectations, conducting horizon scanning to report and resolve delivery risks and issues.
- Contribute to the delivery of agency wide changes that reflect required customer and/or policy differences providing constructive management and leadership in change discussions and planning.
- Champion high health and safety standards and support staff to fulfil their health and safety responsibilities.
- Proactively manage the performance, conduct and attendance of your team, reviewing performance regularly and, when necessary, establishing performance improvement plans.

**Person specification**:

- Experience of leading and managing Operational Delivery Teams.
- Planning skills to enable effective work allocation and resource management to deliver challenging targets.
- Ability to effectively lead others, managing performance and developing team members.

**Learning and Development**

Everyone in APHA is supported to develop their skills and capabilities. When you join the Directorate, you will be welcomed into your new team through an induction programme that will provide you with helpful information on the civil service, our work and our policies. Your line manager will also work with you to establish your priorities for the year, developing a performance, learning and de