Delivery Team Leader
| Posting date: | 24 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £42,665 to £46,765 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 March 2026 |
| Location: | Crewe |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 450059/2 |
Summary
Do you have the ability to influence others and guide your team in a shared strategy?
If so, we would like to hear from you!
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.
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. Based at either Crewe, Horley, or Canterbury, you will ensure 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. This is a varied role that requires flexibility and a positive, focused attitude to achieving outcomes, despite any setbacks, with the ability to adapt to different tasks as the situation demands.
The key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- 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 to attend training, face-to-face meetings, working in a forward operating base for exotic disease outbreaks, which may include overnight stays.
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