Delivery Team Leader - Ayr, United Kingdom - Animal and Plant Health Agency

Animal and Plant Health Agency

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Ayr, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £37,295 - £41,425

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
APHA
Operational Delivery
Type of role:
Operational Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

Ayr, Dumfries, Perth, StranraerAbout the job

Job summary:

The Animal Plant Health Agency (APHA) is a government agency that sits within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

We currently have one exciting opportunity to join the Scotland Field Delivery Team as a Delivery Team Leader, to lead a complex local field delivery team of mixed veterinary and technical professionals.

The post holder will be accountable for prioritising resource and workloads across the team to achieve all expected delivery targets, and primarily helping to safeguard animal health and welfare, protect the economy and enhance food security.

Job description:

As Delivery Team Leader for The Scotland Delivery Team your duties will include but not be limited to the following:

Provide visible leadership to the team, monitoring performance against agreed objectives to keep work on track.
Manage the performance, conduct and attendance of the field team, ensuring that all team members contribute to achieving targets and operate in accordance with policies, procedures and our values and ways of working.
Deploy resources and organise workloads to enable the most effective and efficient delivery despite challenges.
Work with the wider Delivery Team Leader cohort to prioritise and share resource and workloads across the Agency, rather than maintaining a focus on local delivery goals alone.
Build and maintain constructive relationships, including partnering with senior professional veterinary and technical functional managers.
Ensure capability to meet performance expectations and respond to emergencies, by reviewing performance on a regular basis, seeking professional insight from functional partners, providing access to professional coaching and mentoring within the matrix system, implementing performance improvement and development where necessary.
Create a team environment within a geographically dispersed team in which everyone can and does contribute effectively, and where different perspectives are heard and channelled.
Ensure that professional skills are developed and maintained to undertake any allocated roles during incidents and emergency activities.
Respond flexibly to incidents and outbreaks of notifiable animal and plant disease, with reasonable notice undertaking periods of detached duty, roles and tasks as required by the Agency.

Working Arrangements

Support and Training

Person specification:

Ability to give clear and concise instructions and constructive feedback.
Ability to effectively lead others, managing performance and developing team members.
Ability to report on activity and target delivery.
High standards of interpersonal skills and ability to lead and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Behaviours:

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

Leadership
Making Effective Decisions
Managing a Quality Service
Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £37,295, Animal and Plant Health Agency contributes £10,069 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities tailored to your role
Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 4060% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%).

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
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A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

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Visa Sponsorship Statement

Please take note that Defra does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

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