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Operational Leader

Job details
Posting date: 16 January 2025
Salary: £37,497 to £38,373 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 31 January 2025
Location: SA72 6UP
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 384397/3

Summary

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you have leadership experience, great communication skills and enjoy coaching others?

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives. Work and Health Services Working Age is a great place to work where the leadership team are passionate about attracting the best talent whilst nurturing and valuing new and existing colleagues to be the best they can be.

The Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest profession in the Civil Service. ODP’s 200,000+ members work in a wide range of operational delivery roles across government, providing essential services that support and protect UK citizens at home and overseas. They help to make the Department for Work and Pensions a great place to work.

DWP will support you in further developing your professional knowledge and skills for this role and future career development. For this role you may be expected to undertake an Apprenticeship – further details are included in the candidate pack.

This is a key role and we are looking for people who will help us deliver key leadership roles across the Departments Operational Delivery functions.

We welcome applications from candidates who demonstrate inspirational and resourceful leadership to help drive performance and deliver a positive and efficient service to our customers.

We are proud to be part of DWP, which is the Government’s largest public service department serving 18 million customers.

We are committed to the Civil Service ambition to become the UK’s most inclusive employer and we absolutely welcome and encourage applications from every part of our community, particularly from groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and those with protected characteristics

Operational Delivery Leadership Roles 

Successful candidates can expect to be involved in a range of the following:

Lead by example, providing inspiration, direction and support to colleagues by translating our DWP vision, values and priorities into improved outcomes delivered in collaboration with, and beyond your immediate team.

Drive improved customer service and efficiency outcomes by planning, implementing and evaluating changes, involving your own team and wider stakeholders and colleagues.

Showing innovation and creativity to lead activities that support efficiencies and improvements to service delivery. 

Lead a team ensuring that its members are organised, and fully skilled to meet their work objectives. Effectively managing both team and individual performance, addressing any issues as they arise, and apply policies and procedures (including diversity, attendance and discipline).

Create an environment that empowers others to do the right thing for customers, being responsible for delivering excellent service to achieve quality outcomes.

Operates as part of a team focused on agreed goals and priorities to achieve collective commitments, effectively managing resources in an ever-changing organisational structure to drive efficiencies and keep costs down.

Build individual and team capability by personally coaching and mentoring colleagues at all grades on a variety of procedural and leadership skills, promoting and making full use of professional learning products available.

Being accountable for managing workloads, attendance and conducting regular one to ones, face to face performance reviews, confidently addressing risks to performance achievements, driving forward continuous improvement in an inclusive and engaging environment. Confidently handle challenging conversations.

Through your behaviour and ways of working develop an environment of inclusivity and trust where people can be their very best. Creating an environment where everyone feels they belong, that their contribution matters and that they can reach their full potential.

Ensure all Health and Safety and security matters are dealt with promptly and sensitively, in line with DWP policies and procedures.

This list is not exhaustive.

All prospective applicants should fully consider the candidate pack before applying.

For locations in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

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