Application Support Team Leader London, England
Job description
We are recruiting for Application Support Team Leader ona permanent with British Transport Police (BTP) based at BTP Force Headquarters, Camden, London.
BTP is the national police Force for the rail network throughout Great Britain, including London Underground, across which we ensure the safety and security of nearly 3 billion passenger journeys and over 100 million tons of freight every year.
The Application Support Team Leader's primary responsibility is to act as an SME across a wide variety of applications and systems whilst managing and supporting the members of the Application Support team. The team supports a wide range of applications from operational policing systems dealing with Command and Control (Control Works) and Records Management (Niche) through to business focused HR (ORIGIN) and Finance (eFinancials)system across a 24/7 landscape.
This is a management role, with a primary responsibility around managing the team, development of the team, improving processes and procedures and project allocation. In addition, the role will still hold technical guidance and hands-on engagement as required, and undertaking on-call duties as part of the role. The team also work with projects and as the Team Leader, you will have experience of scheduling and resourcing both project development and support efforts.
The team works closely with Digital Policing function and we support and assist with the delivery of their projects and business as usual force wide support. The role will require you to develop and manage the team, working with individual team members to develop their skills and with the team as a whole to define and develop the technical solutions. Making sure that the team keep up to date with skills and advances that their role covers. The role will require you working in cross functional technical delivery teams within their area of functional expertise.
The Application Support Team Leader leads a technical team within their area of functional expertise.
Please refer to the role profile for more information.
In return for your experience, we can offer you:
- £47359.27 base + £2,835.11 London Allowance + 10% shift allowance + a SFIA supplement of up to £3,086
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Competitive pension scheme
- Flexible agile working approach
- Family friendly policies including up to 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
- Bespoke benefits platform and access to Blue Light Card
- Development opportunities including fully funded apprenticeships
As an equal opportunities employer, British Transport Police is committed to the inclusive treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We want our organisation to be as diverse as the community it serves and strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. In order for us to achieve this we ask that you complete the relevant diversity monitoring form. Any information relating to the diversity monitoring form are used only with the intent to improve our services and people practices. Please be assured that all applications will be judged on their individual merit and no other factors.
In order to apply, you must have the permanent right to live and work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for the previous 5 YEARS (dependant on the level of vetting required of the role). You will be asked these and other questions to determine your eligibility to work for British Transport Police when you start your application and you must answer honestly. Closing date for application Tuesday 4th April at 12pm.
BTP has undertaken a review of Police Staff pensions and as a result of this the Police Staff pension will be changing. The current police staff pension is a Defined Benefit scheme which is administered by the Railways Pension scheme. The new pension scheme which is launching is a Defined Contribution scheme which is administered by Royal London. The new pension scheme is awaiting formal approval and an introductory date is not finalised. The earliest this will be is June 2023. If you have any queries, please contact Emma Norman – [email protected]
Internal candidates must have completed their probation for their current substantive posting and can only apply in tenure if Head of Department approval is emailed to [email protected] prior to the vacancy closing. Internal candidates must confirm that they are not subject to formal action plans for sickness/complaints/discipline or poor performance and that all mandatory training courses have been attended and are in ticket/up to date. A minimum indicator of 3 / developing' or' 'Indicator 5 / no rating must have been achieved on the last reporting year PDR.
