Organisational Development/ Effectiveness Practitioner
Band 6
Main area: Organisational Development
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-TWS6969148
Site: Hollins Park, Town: Warrington
Salary: per annum
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
We are looking for a new practitioner within our Organisational Development Team. We seek someone who understands the impact of Organisational Development (OD) when done well across an organisation 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. 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. Excellent engagement skills and experience with online facilitation are essential, along with experience delivering on a varied OD agenda and leading evidence-based interventions.
Working for our organisation
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 are committed to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Support the development of a quality improvement culture by supporting the systematic development of high performing, multi-disciplinary teams across Mersey Care.
2. Support the development of quality systems and processes for collating and analysing information to measure and explore organisational performance.
3. Analyse and act on information to proactively manage agreed targets and action plans for all Organisational Development activity.
4. Develop and maintain systems to ensure that learning needs are identified and met.
5. Contribute to the development and implementation of Organisational Development policies and guidelines.
6. Design and deliver sustainable Organisational Development interventions in line with organisational requirements.
7. Support the development and implementation of Talent Management, Succession Planning, and Appraisal schemes.
8. Ensure compliance with Trust policies and guidelines.
9. Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise.
10. Take responsibility for own learning and development.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Responsive to service users
* Transparency and honesty
Skills
* Ability to design, deliver and evaluate high-quality learning interventions.
* Coaching & Mentoring skills.
* Data analysis to support OD interventions.
* Project Management.
* Quality Improvement techniques and tools.
Qualifications
* 1st Degree/appropriate professional qualification in Leadership/Organisational Development.
* Specific OD Practitioner Certification (e.g., MBTI, LQF, Coaching, Mentoring).
Knowledge and experience
* Experience of embedding organisational values.
* Experience of supporting workforce implications of Health & Social Care reform.
* Involvement in managing complex change and service development programmes.
* Evidence of effective performance management.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
#J-18808-Ljbffr