Team Leader

This Apprenticeship provides you with a range of management and leadership skills, such as managing personal performance and development, contributing to meetings in a business environment and leading and managing a team. It also provides you with a range of knowledge needed to work in a team leading role.

A team leader/supervisor is a first line management role, with operational/project responsibilities or responsibility for managing a team to deliver a clearly defined outcome. They provide direction, instructions and guidance to ensure the achievement of set goals. Working in the private, public or third sector and in all sizes of organisation, specific responsibilities will vary, but the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed will be the same whatever the role.

Key responsibilities are likely to include supporting, managing and developing team members, managing projects, planning and monitoring workloads and resources, delivering operational plans, resolving problems, and building relationships internally and externally.

Roles/Occupations may include: Supervisor, Team Leader, Project Officer, Shift Supervisor, Foreperson, and Shift Manager.

Once you've achieved your Apprenticeships, you could go on to complete further education and qualifications. With experience you could become a section manager, first line manager, assistant manager, trainee manager etc.

On completion, apprentices may choose to register as Associate members with the Chartered Management Institute and/or the Institute of Leadership & Management, to support their professional career development and progression.