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The role provides an additional point of contact for staff and helps identify and escalate issues that may affect service delivery, productivity, quality or team culture.\nThis is an additional responsibility on top of the candidate’s substantive role on an approximate 80/20 (substantive role/team leader) split.\nWorking Pattern:\nTeam Leader activities 20% of working week (subject to review)/80% substantive role. 37.5 hours over 5 days per week on rotation Mon-Fri/Tues-Sat between the hours of 7am to 7pm.\nAbout this role:\nThis is an amazing development opportunity for an established colleague to take their first steps into people and performance management, whilst maintaining their core operational skills.\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nKey Responsibilities\nPerformance Monitoring\nPlan and carry out scheduled staff performance reviews, using agreed objectives, performance data and documented examples.\nProvide constructive, balanced feedback and agree appropriate actions to support performance and development.\nMonitor individual and team performance against agreed productivity, quality and working-practice expectations.\nIdentify recurring underperformance, training needs or concerns affecting team effectiveness and escalate these to the Laboratory Operations Manager.\nRecognise positive contributions and encourage accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.\nMaintain accurate, confidential records of performance reviews and agreed actions in line with company procedures.\nPre-Analytical Rotas and Resource Planning\nCreate and maintain pre-analytical laboratory rotas in line with operational requirements, staffing levels, skills and competency requirements.\nAim to distribute shifts and duties fairly and consistently, taking account of agreed working patterns and service needs.\nIdentify potential gaps in cover, capacity constraints or rota risks and discuss proposed solutions with the Laboratory Operations Manager.\nCommunicate rota arrangements and changes clearly and in a timely manner.\nSickness Reporting and Attendance Communication\nAct as a designated point of contact for staff to telephone when reporting sickness absence, in accordance with the organisation’s absence-reporting procedure.\nRecord and communicate relevant absence information promptly to the appropriate manager and operational contacts.\nSupport the identification of immediate staffing and workload implications arising from sickness absence, including amending rotas to ensure operational delivery.\nEscalate repeated absence concerns, failure to follow reporting procedures or other attendance-management matters to the Laboratory Operations Manager.\nOversight of lab team attendance and punctuality - reporting any failure to uphold contracted working times to the laboratory operations manager.\nOperational Oversight and Escalation\nReview pre-analytical workload, staffing and performance information to identify operational pressures or emerging risks.\nEscalate Pre-Analytics Team underperformance, recurring productivity concerns and failure to meet agreed targets to the Laboratory Operations Manager.\nIdentify and escalate operational issues, bottlenecks, backlogs, resource constraints and workflow interruptions that may affect service delivery.\nEscalate quality, safety, equipment or service risks promptly to the laboratory operations manager.\nRole Boundaries and Accountability\nThe Team Leader may conduct scheduled performance reviews as delegated, provide feedback and agree appropriate development actions, but must escalate formal or persistent concerns to the Laboratory Operations Manager.\nThe post holder does not independently approve contractual changes, formal changes to working patterns or other decisions outside their expressly delegated authority.\nUrgent quality, safety or operational concerns must be escalated promptly and must not wait until the next designated Team Leader day.\nResponsibilities should be planned proportionately to circa 20% of working week, with priorities agreed with the Laboratory Operations Manager.\nThis job description is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements of the post holder. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be subject to change.\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nPerson Specification\nThe preferred candidate will have the following experience, abilities, and aptitudes:\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.\nKnowledge and Experience:\nExperience working in a laboratory environment, with a good understanding of pre-analytical workflows and operational requirements. [Essential]\nPrevious experience supporting colleagues, training staff or undertaking supervisory responsibilities. 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