Technical Team Leader

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

- 233212**Salary**:

- £29,179 - £35,888- National: £29,179 - £32,160, London: £32,557 - £35,888**Grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- Fixed-term contract for 18 months with the possibility of permanency or extension**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- NationalAbout the job

**Summary**:
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.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day effectiveness of resource management and will prioritise resource and workloads across the team for them to contribute to achieving delivery targets. You will be accountable for ensuing capability to meet performance expectations and your team’s ability to respond to emergencies and disease outbreaks.

This is an exciting, varied and high-profile role that will also see you 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 and ensure that clear vision and direction is cascaded to your team.

Vacancies are currently available across England based at Leicester/Lincoln and Beverley/Thirsk.

**Job description**:

- The role involves a wide range of work including, but not limited to, the following:
- To lead and line manage a team of local and geographically dispersed technical staff ensuring the effective and efficient deployment to meet delivery requirements
- To proactively manage the performance, conduct and attendance of your team, reviewing performance on a regular basis and, where necessary, establishing performance improvement plans
- To maintain a team culture where your team works effectively on a local and Agency-wide basis, by encouraging consistency and best practice nationally
- To work collaboratively across the Agency and Policy to help influence Tactical and Strategic decision making
- To ensure your team works effectively with Operational Partners and Stakeholders
- To work with functional leadership (specifically Resilience & Technical Advisors) to ensure the team are able to meet technical quality standards, procedures and policies which are consistently applied; together with identifying and addressing any development needs
- Use management information to monitor, analyse and manage outputs against expectations and Horizon scanning to report and take ownership of and resolve delivery risks and issues
- To contribute to the delivery of agency wide changes that reflect required customer and/ or policy differences and provide constructive management and leadership into change discussions and planning
- To champion high health and safety standards and support staff fulfil their health and safety responsibilities

The post requires management of a geographically dispersed team which will require travel to multiple sites.**Responsibilities**:

- 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 effectively

**Licences**:

- A valid driving licence that covers the UK, access to a vehicle with appropriate business use insurance.**Languages**:

- Must have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to enable effective communication about veterinary topics with customers and colleagues and meet one of the following:
- have undertaken undergraduate veterinary training in English;
or- having a sufficient command of spoken and written English to effectively perform the role being undertaken by a public sector worker in a customer-facing role

or**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:
**Pension and Financial Benefits**
Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package and there are various options including Alpha and Partnership pension schemes in which Defra can invest in providing a contribution to the cost of your pension.
Life Assurance: if you become too ill or die before retirement valuable benefits will be provided to you and your family.

**Time off**
25 days annual leave (rising up to 30 days over 5 years) for new entrants to the Civil Service and retaining existing arrangements for current Civil Servants.

**Rewards**
We have a Staff Recognition Scheme with our in-year awards rewarding exemplary work. At SEO grade for vets we currently have a system that pa