Operational Delivery Manager for HM Courts and Tribunals Service, leading court teams across Preston and Leyland. Day to day: leading Team Leaders, supporting Operations Managers, hitting performance targets, managing complaints, budget and resources in a process-driven courts environment. Office-based public-sector leadership role at £35,335; not eligible for new Skilled Worker visas.
Compensation
£35.3K–£37.8K / yr
Location
This position is based at PRESTON SESSIONS HOUSE PRESTON, PR1 2PD
Work setup
Hybrid
Seniority
Not specified
Employment
Part time
Experience
Not specified
Category
Project management
Posted
Skills
corrective-action
Must have
Assessed against Civil Service behaviour: Leadership
Assessed against Civil Service behaviour: Managing a Quality Service
Experience improving team performance (what you did and the result)
Must have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the UK
Must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check and baseline personnel security standard checks
Must be office based to provide customer-facing HMCTS services
Nationality requirements apply (UK, Irish, Commonwealth with right to work, EUSS, etc.)
Part-time working limited to minimum 30 hours per week over 5 days
Nice to have
Comfortable with regular travel between Preston Crown Court/Family Court and Leyland Family Hearing Centre
Full description
Job grade: Higher Executive Officer
Contract type: Permanent
Type of role: Operational Delivery
Working pattern: Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Number of jobs available: 1
Location
This position is based at PRESTON SESSIONS HOUSE PRESTON, PR1 2PD
About the job
Job summary
Please refer to Job Description
Job description
Proud to serve. Proud to keep justice going.
Our Delivery Managers play a critical role helping deliver justice. If you’re customer focussed, intent on delivering excellent service, enthusiastic about leading and motivating a team, then this role gives you the opportunity to play a pivotal role within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS).
About us
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. If you are interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.
Your role
Leading your team, you’ll support your Operations Manager(s) to meet operational needs, deliver performance objectives and provide a consistent and customer-focused service.
You’ll maintain positive and effective working relationships with the judiciary, supporting agencies, and user groupsand strive for continuous improvement to improve operational efficiency. You’ll need to be familiar with work environments that are process and compliance driven and able to constructively manage complaints and complete corrective actions within set timescales. You’ll understand the importance of Health and Safety, IT/Workstation compliance and identifying and escalating any Court facilities issues.
About you
Are you a hands-on problem solver with the ability to engage with people at all levels and deliver excellent service through effectively leading a team? Are you able to reflect on an issue and take a collaborative and diplomatic approach to your work? If you do, this varied and challenging role is for you.
A confident communicator, you will use your skills and abilities to effectively work and engage with all court users, lead your team and set local priorities and objectives aligned to national/regional strategies and plans. Driven by your enthusiasm to provide excellent customer service through your team, you’ll know that employee engagement, morale and motivation is key to delivering a highly effective performance. You’ll be able to give direction and close support to Team Leaders to develop their team plans to form part of the overall business plan for the region. You’ll make sure that targets are met and the team is resourced and trained effectively to meet your allocated budget, identifying and implementing solutions to local problems.
For a full job description, please read the supporting document before applying.Further details
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.
Person specification
Please refer to Job Description
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Leadership
Managing a Quality Service
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Could you provide us with an experience where you improved performance on your team. What did you do and what was the result?
What relevant skills can you bring to this role and how you have used them previously?
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £35,335, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £10,236 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
Access to learning and development
A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Annual Leave
Public Holidays
Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
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Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the
Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the
Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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