Prosecution and Legal Services Team Leader – Part Time
| Posting date: | 04 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,525 to £30,262 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 August 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 418853/1 |
Summary
Are you proficient in data analysis?
Would you be interested in using these skills to gain experience withing a prosecution and legal work environment?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- make roads safer
- improve services for our customers
- make road transport greener and healthier
- harness the potential of technology and data
- grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA:
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers
You will line manage a team of Case Officers, including managing performance, quality assurance and distribution of caseloads. You will assist line managers by producing statistical analysis to monitor the performance of the team, quality check failures that the team have had to issue and effectively support business cases as required. You will work closely with the Training and Development team to ensure new entrant Vehicle and Traffic Examiner courses run smoothly.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Managing the provision of prosecution cases with regard to Scottish law and the Scottish legal system.Provide support, advice and guidance to new or existing laws if a question arises and conduct legal and factual research to affect management decisions.Manage the graduated fixed penalty deposit reports, distribution and completion of cases from these reports.Draft and produce legal documents and standard forms for the team to use which assists with coaching and training.Carry out legal and factual research/project pieces into all necessary areas of the teams work, presenting findings accurately and clearly.Deliver on all aspects of staff management including reviews of personal development plans, disciplinary matters, sickness absence, performance monitoring and annual staff reports.Contribute to audit checks of court costs working closely with line managers.Present on Prosecution and Legal Services prosecution issues and fixed penalty issues as part of formal training structure for new and experience staff.Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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