23538 - Team Leader - Preston & Leyland

Ministry of Justice; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in Preston seeks a Team Leader to lead a focused administrative and customer service team serving service users, judiciary and management.

You will drive prioritisation, monitor performance, and contribute to improvements while supporting staff development. This is a non-contractual hybrid role with standard full-time hours of 37 per week.

Qualifications

• Motivate and support your team to deliver excellent customer service.
• Experience in an administrative role in a customer-focused environment.
• IT proficient with the ability to learn and adapt to different technologies and software packages.
• Excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead your team and prioritise work to meet objectives.
• Ensure your team delivers high-quality administrative support and customer service to service users, judiciary and management.
• Monitor performance, analyse trends and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide data and reports to management, mediators and judiciary.

Skills

Team leadership

Customer service

IT literacy

Communication skills

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Proud to serve. Proud to keep justice going.

Our Team Leaders play a critical role in helping delivery of justice. This role will enable you to demonstrate and develop your leadership skills. You are responsible for making sure your team deliver excellent administrative support and customer service to service users, judiciary and management.

About us

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is an agency of the Ministry of Justice and is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family Courts and Tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our service users and colleagues within HMCTS, where people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and making a difference in people’s lives to deliver justice.

Your role

Leading your team, you’ll focus on the team’s area of work, making sure that work is prioritised and organised and your team fully skilled to meet objectives. As an effective Team Leader, you recognise the importance of the team’s overall wellbeing and can motivate your team to succeed.

You will contribute to the delivery of operational, performance and service standard targets and provide statistical data for the management team, mediators and judiciary. Your keen eye for detail and desire for continuous improvement is key to your success. Monitoring and analysing performance areas and trends, conducting ongoing reviews of procedures and work practices is essential, as is your ability to successfully recommend improvements, navigate change and manage the implementation of new initiatives and legislation.

This is a challenging and rewarding role, key to the smooth running of operational functions throughout HMCTS. We’re committed to helping you develop your leadership skills, through our HMCTS leadership offer. This provides a wide range of activities from development programmes to accessible bite-size guides to help build your ability and confidence to lead, guide and inspire others.

Your skills and experience

Ability to motivate and support your team to deliver excellent customer service and achieve effective performance.

Experience of working in an administrative role in a customer-focussed environment

IT proficient with the ability to learn and adapt to different technologies and software packages.

Excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills

New recruits to the Civil Service joining MoJ are expected to join at the band minimum.

These operational roles are customer facing, requiring successful applicants to be office based to provide HMCTS services to the public.

Non-contractual hybrid working may be available. Hybrid working arrangements will be determined by the business and will only be available when it has been established that delivering the service from home can be done effectively. We cannot facilitate requests for a particular work from home/working in the office schedule.

Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week.

HMCTS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs and are agreed prior to appointment. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ’s Flexible Working policy.

Applications for part-time working will be considered however due to the nature of the role the minimum hours would be 30 hours per week over 5 days.

Travel to other courts

For this post, you will be based in Preston Crown Court and Family Court (Sessions House), The Family Court, Sessions House, Lancaster Road, Preston, PR1 2PD. With regular travel to Leyland Family Hearing Centre, Lancastergate, Leyland, PR25 2EX.

Skilled Worker Visa

This role is not eligible for new Skilled Worker visas in accordance with the current immigration rules.

From 22 July 2025, the Government introduced changes to the Skilled Worker visa route. The department cannot consider sponsoring you for this role unless you have held a Skilled Worker visa prior to the 22 July 2025 changes. If you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously, please raise this during your vetting checks and eligibility will be assessed in accordance with the immigration rules and transitional provisions in place.

If you are applying for this role and you have not held a Skilled Worker visa prior to the 22 July 2025 changes, you will need to consider your options for obtaining and/or maintaining your right to work in the UK in light of these changes. Successful applicants must ensure they have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.

The Department will continue to comply with UK Immigration Rules applied in the UK and Civil Service. You can read more about Skilled Worker visas and the eligibility criteria here.