Animal and Plant Health Agency
Technical Team Leader
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Technical Team Leader (APHA)
Primary Locations: Horley, Canterbury, Leicester, Lincoln
Job Summary
Are you highly motivated with excellent communication skills?
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!
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (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, because it helps us be more innovative and make better decisions.
We are dedicated to being an inclusive employer, offering equitable opportunities for all individuals. Our goal is to build a diverse workforce, and we hope to attract applications from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups.
Job Description
We are looking for a confident and inspiring Technical Team Leader (TTL) to lead and manage a team of technical field staff within APHA, helping to protect animal health, safeguard animal welfare, and support international trade. Using your strong interpersonal skills, you will oversee a geographically dispersed delivery team, providing leadership and line management to a multidisciplinary group of Animal Health Officers and Egg Marketing Inspectors.
The role offers two distinct fixed terms (12 months each):
- Horley or Canterbury
- Leicester or Lincoln
Offers will be made in merit order by location.
As a Technical Team Leader, you will be accountable for the effective management of resources, prioritising workloads to meet delivery targets and collaborating with Technical Advisors to ensure your team possesses the capability to respond to:
- Emergencies
- Disease outbreaks
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This is a varied role that requires flexibility and a positive, focused attitude to achieving outcomes, even when setbacks occur. You must be able to adapt to different tasks as needed.
As a visible leader, you will:
- Foster a positive team environment
- Ensure clear vision and direction are communicated
The role involves diverse responsibilities, including but not limited to:
- Leading and managing local and geographically dispersed technical staff, ensuring optimal resource deployment.
- Proactively managing performance, conduct, and attendance, implementing improvement plans where necessary.
- Building a strong team culture that promotes consistency and best practice across local, national, and agency-wide work.
- Collaborating across Agency and Policy functions to influence tactical and strategic decision-making.
- Working with Resilience and Technical Advisors to:
- Maintain technical quality standards
- Address skill gaps or development needs
- Using management information to:
- Monitor outputs
- Identify risks
- Take ownership of resolving issues
- Contributing to agency-wide change initiatives and supporting the implementation of customer- or policy-driven changes.
- Championing high health and safety standards and supporting staff in fulfilling their responsibilities.
Note: The role requires managing a geographically dispersed team, which may involve travel to multiple sites.
Person Specification
Candidates must demonstrate experience and skills in the following areas:
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- Experience in leading and managing operational delivery teams, with a strong track record of:
- Developing people
- Managing performance
- Building skills in collaboration with functional managers
- Planning and organisational skills to ensure:
- Effective work allocation
- Efficient resource management
- Success in meeting challenging targets
- Ability to adapt to changing directions and deliver difficult messages with:
- Clarity
- Purpose
- Understanding
- Commercial experience in reporting on activity and target delivery
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Confidence and ability to challenge constructively to achieve positive outcomes
Licence Requirement
- A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle with appropriate business use insurance.
Remuneration & Benefits
- Salary: £34,765
- Pension Contribution: APHA contributes £10,071 towards membership of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
Additional Benefits Include:
- Minimum 25 days paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- Extensive learning & professional development opportunities tailored to your role.
- Access to a range of retail, travel, and lifestyle employee discounts.
- Staff bonuses, recognition, salary sacrifice options, and an employee discount scheme.
- Flexible working options to support your needs.
For further details, visit: Technical Team Leader - Civil Service Jobs UK
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