Organisational Development/ Effectiveness Practitioner
We are looking for a new practitioner within our Organisational Development Team. We seek someone who understands Organisational Development (OD), recognizes its impact when executed well across an organization, and can demonstrate how OD runs through every aspect of their work.
Shortlisting planned for: 18 February 2025
Interview planned for: 28 February 2025
Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as an Organisational Effectiveness Practitioner, coordinating the development and delivery of our People Plan workstreams and 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 organization-wide OD plans, including delivering leadership programmes and designing local interventions at team level. Excellent engagement skills and experience with online facilitation are essential, along with experience in delivering a varied OD agenda and leading evidence-based interventions.
We have significant change ahead of us and are looking for someone who can bring others along, find and develop champions, and nurture talent.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical 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, including 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 their best 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 our services and safely reduce costs.
Job responsibilities
1. Support the development of a quality improvement culture by fostering high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams across Mersey Care.
2. Support the development of quality systems and processes for collating and analyzing information to measure and explore organizational performance.
3. Analyze and act on information to proactively manage agreed targets, standards, activity reports, and action plans for all Organisational Development activity.
4. Develop and maintain systems to ensure learning needs are identified, met, and that all learning is planned, implemented, evaluated, and shared.
5. Contribute to the development and implementation of Organisational Development policies, procedures, and guidelines.
6. Design and deliver sustainable Organisational Development interventions in line with organizational and service requirements.
7. Design, commission, and deliver leadership and management development programmes and interventions.
8. Support the development and implementation of Talent Management, Succession Planning, and Appraisal schemes.
9. Maintain effective communication and confidentiality of information, monitoring standards and preparing action plans to improve service quality.
10. Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures, and guidelines.
11. Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise.
12. Maintain a healthy, safe, and secure working environment in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
13. Take responsibility for own learning and development.
14. Demonstrate operational leadership competencies.
15. The role will involve hybrid working with a mix of home working and travel across the Mersey Care footprint.
Person Specification
Values
* Accountability
* Responsive to service users
* Transparency and honesty
Skills
* Ability to design, deliver, and evaluate innovative, high-quality learning interventions.
* Coaching & Mentoring skills
* IT skills for developing Practice
* Ability to manage/prioritize own work and collaborate to achieve common goals.
* Data analysis to support OD interventions
* Project Management
* Quality Improvement techniques and tools
* Evidence of People Management skills
Qualifications
* 1st Degree/appropriate professional qualification in Leadership/Organisational Development, evidence of study at Postgraduate level.
* Specific OD Practitioner Certification (e.g., MBTI, LQF, Coaching, Mentoring, NLP, Leadership, Project Management).
Knowledge and experience
* Experience of embedding organizational values.
* Experience supporting workforce implications of Health & Social Care reform.
* Involvement in leading and managing complex change and service development programmes.
* Evidence of effective performance management.
* Development of strategies, policies, and processes that support organizational analysis and development.
* Good understanding of leadership and management theory.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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