Employer: NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Employer type: NHS
Site: Level 1A
Town: Manchester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/10/2024 23:59
Interview date: 04/11/2024
NHS AfC: Band 6
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance and advice on promoting high quality health, public health and social care.
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome everyone from all backgrounds to apply so we can continue to create a workforce which is representative of the communities we serve.
If you are suitably qualified and have an interest in remote, hybrid, full time or part time working, we encourage you to get in touch as we are happy to discuss potential flexible working opportunities.
We have modern offices in Manchester city centre and Stratford, London. Please take into consideration that you may be required to commute to one of our offices for business purposes if necessary.
Job overview
Here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), we are going through an exciting period of change and rapid growth. As an organisation, we collaborate to achieve the same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things. We understand the importance of creating a respectful, supportive and transparent environment for all our employees, which is why your health and wellbeing is a top priority for us!
As an OD Practitioner, you will support the Head of OD and Talent in the delivery of organisational development interventions and projects which serve the strategic priorities of NICE, including the culture change and transformation agendas.
A significant part of the role will be to support the OD aspects of the ‘new ways of working’ and culture change agenda, utilising robust OD approaches and methodologies and acting as a source of expertise in the OD field. This will include designing and delivering team building and team development sessions in-house and managing OD projects. The role will also include liaising with and coordinating external OD consultants working with us to deliver programmes of development.
You’ll be joining a small friendly team of experts in talent development, diversity and inclusion, OD, and staff engagement.
Main duties of the job
1. Support the OD aspects of the culture change and transformation agenda, ensuring the right impact is being made to enable behavioural and culture change, empowerment, collaboration, and delivery of high-quality business outcomes across NICE’s strategic 4 priorities.
2. Provide OD expertise, contributing to the design and delivery of people, organisational development, and organisational design projects and initiatives providing advice, and delivering activity and services as required.
3. Undertake diagnostics, design, and delivery of a wide range of OD projects and interventions ranging from team development and coaching, action learning sets & other peer consulting approaches, to interventions supporting individuals (including coaching, 360 feedback and psychometrics) and large-scale group activity (listening events, big conversations, etc).
4. Support the implementation of the NICE values and behaviour framework and supporting activities and materials in line with NICE’s leadership competences, values, and culture change programme.
5. Support the employee relations team and trade union in the implementation of a restorative and just learning approach to people management.
6. Provide OD analysis, interpretation, observations, recommendations, feedback, and, where appropriate, action planning, for a wide range of HR and ER activity e.g., case work, management of change activity, policy development.
Working for our organisation
The People Team is responsible for Human Resources, Recruitment, and Talent Development across NICE. The Talent and OD team, a sub-team of the people team, comprises experts in OD, EDI, L&D, and staff engagement. We are a friendly team of 6 with a track record of high-quality delivery. We collaborate widely across the organisation, influencing culture development and capability development at a strategic level.
We offer a range of benefits including:
* NHS pension scheme which is one of the most generous in the UK.
* We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work-life balance.
* Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants, and more.
* Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays.
* Access to modern offices with showers, bike storage facilities, and refreshments such as tea and coffee.
* Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Eco-NICE, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
* Personal development tailored to your needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria throughout the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Specialist knowledge of OD topics to postgraduate level, acquired through degree and professional OD qualification or through equivalent experience.
* Professional facilitation and/or training qualification.
Experience
* Experience of designing and delivering OD interventions and workshops.
* Experience of applying OD methodology in practice e.g., diagnostic interventions and OD techniques and practice.
Skills / Knowledge
* Knowledge of OD methodologies and practices.
* Ability to design, deliver and evaluate OD and learning programmes.
Important - Due to NICE’s use of anonymised recruitment practices, we ask all candidates not to include any personal details within their application. Please ensure you provide sufficient detail in the supporting information section to allow our team to make an informed judgement about your suitability for this role at this stage. CVs will not be considered.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please note that applications may be rejected or subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own.
Please contact [emailprotected] if you wish to discuss any additional needs or reasonable adjustments which may support you with your application and/or at the interview.
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