Overview
We are offering an exciting opportunity for 2 Delivery Team Leaders to join our England Field Delivery Team. Using your strong interpersonal skills, you will be responsible for overseeing a geographically dispersed delivery team, providing leadership and line management to a multidisciplinary group that includes Senior Veterinary Inspectors and a Technical Team Leader. You will be based either in Crewe, Horley, or Canterbury, ensuring resources are effectively and efficiently deployed to meet delivery expectations. As a Delivery Team Leader (DTL), you will be accountable for meeting all delivery targets and will work alongside Veterinary and Technical Advisors to develop and assure the high performance, capability and consistency of your field team.
Responsibilities
* Lead a professional veterinary team to help prevent the introduction of notifiable diseases and invasive species, safeguard animal welfare, facilitate international trade and protect public and animal health.
* Champion health and safety standards, fostering a proactive safety culture, ensuring consistent, complaint and wellbeing focused practices across all locations.
* Be accountable for prioritising resources and workloads across the teams to maintain a quality service and the delivery of regulatory activities in line with agreed procedures and policy intent.
* Build and maintain collaborative relationships with Operational Partners, stakeholders and key teams across the Defra group family to ensure regulatory activities are delivered correctly and consistently, supported by understanding and evidence from operational teams.
* Provide leadership, direction and support to delivery group members whilst cultivating collaboration, quality assurance and the benefits of continuous improvement.
* Support and participate in the out‑of‑hours management rota.
Some travel may be required to attend training, face‑to‑face meetings, and work in a forward operating base for exotic disease outbreaks, which may include overnight stays.
Requirements
Are you highly motivated with excellent communication skills? Do you have the ability to influence others and guide your team in a shared strategy? We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate these abilities, and we are Disability Confident. An employer that will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
About APHA
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.
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