Organisational Development/ Effectiveness Practitioner
Band 6
Main area: Organisational Development
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months
Hours: Full time, Flexible working (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 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
Main duties of the job
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 well experience of delivering on a varied OD agenda and leading evidence-based interventions.
The role will involve hybrid working with a mix of home working and travel across the Mersey Care footprint.
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 to enhance organisational capacity and capability.
3. Analyse 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 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.
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 organisational and service requirements, legislation and best practice.
7. Design, commission and deliver sustainable leadership and management development programmes and interventions, including coaching, mentoring, career development advice and support.
8. Support the development and implementation of Talent Management, Succession Planning and Appraisal schemes.
9. Develop and maintain systems and processes to establish and maintain effective communication and confidentiality of information.
10. Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
11. Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise.
12. Develop and maintain systems and processes to promote monitor and maintain a healthy, safe and secure working environment.
13. 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 innovative, high-quality learning interventions.
* Coaching & Mentoring skills
* IT skills for developing practice
* Ability to manage/prioritise own work but also to work collaboratively.
* 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.
* Specific OD Practitioner Certification (e.g., MBTI, LQF, Coaching, Mentoring, NLP, Leadership, Project Management).
Knowledge and experience
* Experience of embedding organisational values.
* Experience of supporting workforce implications of Health & Social Care reform.
* Involvement in leading and managing complex change and service development programmes.
* Evidence of effective performance management.
* Good understanding of leadership and management theory.
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As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum criteria for the role in the person specification.
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