You've heard the story about a stick of Blackpool Rock? You break it and the message runs all the way through. Well, we are looking for a new practitioner within our Organisational Development Team. We are looking for that person who "gets" Organisational Development (OD), who knows the impact it has when done well across an organisation and can show us how OD runs through every aspect of what they do.
Shortlisting planned for: 18 February 2025
Interview planned for: 28 February 2025
The post holder will act as an Organisational Effectiveness Practitioner, co-ordinating the development and delivery of our People Plan workstreams as well as delivering team based OD interventions across our wide range of Clinical and Trust Support services.
We are proud of our work on Restorative Just & Learning Culture and Anti-racism and we're looking for someone to help us move into the next phases of this development.
The post holder will support organisational wide OD plans, including delivering on leadership programmes as well as designing and delivering local interventions at team level. There is a real need for excellent engagement skills and experience with online facilitation, as wellexperience of delivering on a varied OD agenda and leading evidence based interventions.
We have a big job of change ahead of us and we are looking for someone who can bring others along, find and develop champions and nurture talent.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Support the development of a quality, improvement culture by supporting the systematic development of high performing, multi-disciplinary teams across Mersey Care.
Support the development of quality systems and processes for collating and analysing information to measure and explore organisational performance to enhance organisational capacity and capability.
Analyse and act on information to proactively manage agreed targets, standards, activity reports and action plans for all Organisational Development activity.
Develop and maintain systems and processes to ensure that learning needs are identified and met, and that all learning is planned, implemented, evaluated and shared in order to change and improve services according to changing health care needs
Contribute to the development and implementation of Organisational Development policies, procedures and guidelines.
Design and deliver sustainable Organisational Development interventions in line with organisational and service requirements, legislation and best practice. Providing advice and guidance to Services by working alongside managers and staff in planning and implementing change, team building/development, designing new ways of working, redesigning existing
jobs and developing new roles.
Design, commission and deliver sustainable leadership and management development programmes and interventions, including coaching, mentoring, career development advice and support.
Support the development and implementation of Talent Management, Succession Planning and Appraisal schemes, by working with managers and staff to develop sustainable programmes, including the development of any training.
Develop and maintain systems and processes to establish and maintain effective communication, and confidentiality of information. Maintain systems to continually monitor standards, e.g. identifying risks, benchmarking, audit, and prepare and implement action plans to improve quality of services.
Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others, by taking action/alerting Head of Organisational Effectiveness and Learning/other senior manager, if practice appears to contravene policy, or if concerned about any aspect of customer/service user care.
Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise, and by maintaining credibility within the Trust, the wider health care community and external agencies, ensuring a positive image of the Trust is maintained.
Develop and maintain systems and processes to promote monitor and maintain a healthy, safe and secure working environment, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, maintaining accurate documentation and reporting any concerns.
Take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn, including full participation in appraisal, supervision, action learning and by maintaining a professional/personal portfolio of learning.
The post holder will actively demonstrate Mersey Care’s operational leadership competencies which include role modelling trust values, ensuring operational activity is delivered across the team, making decisions and acting on them within strategic context, working collaboratively to achieve desired results, delivering continually improving services, and building personal and team resilience.
The role will involve hybrid working with a mix of home working and travel across the Mersey Care footprint.
Interviews planned for 28th February 2025
This advert closes on Monday 17 Feb 2025