Employer: South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Nexus House
Town: Crawley
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant
NHS AfC: Band 7
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provides services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year.
Job overview
Are you passionate about shaping organisational culture, driving change, and empowering leaders to reach their potential? We’re looking for a dynamic Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant to join our forward-thinking Inclusion, Learning & OD Team at SECAmb for a 12-month fixed-term opportunity.
In this role, you’ll act as an internal consultant, designing and delivering impactful OD interventions that align with our strategic goals. Working collaboratively and in partnership with leaders and colleagues across the organisation, you’ll advise on, lead, and support activities that enhance employee experience, strengthen organisational effectiveness, and foster an inclusive workplace.
You’ll need exceptional expertise in organisational development practices, leadership coaching, and facilitation, paired with a flair for influencing and inspiring change. Creativity, initiative, and the ability to build strong relationships will be key to succeeding in this role.
Main duties of the job
As an Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant, you will deliver initiatives that strengthen leadership, improve team effectiveness, and foster a collaborative, values-driven workplace. Partnering with leaders and teams, you will design and deliver Organisation Development (OD) interventions aligned with our strategic objectives to achieve measurable impact.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Act as a consultant, partnering with leaders to identify challenges and collaboratively design evidence-based OD interventions that drive sustainable change.
* Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and team sessions to inspire collaboration and embed our organisational values.
* Conduct diagnostics to identify barriers to cultural change and develop practical solutions.
* Use data and feedback to evaluate interventions, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational goals.
What We’re Looking For:
* Strong consultation skills to build trusted relationships, challenge constructively, and influence stakeholders.
* Exceptional facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and manage group dynamics.
* Analytical abilities to design and evaluate OD interventions using data-driven insights.
* A collaborative and inclusive approach to foster trust and promote belonging.
If you’re passionate about shaping culture, empowering people, and driving meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post Graduate professional qualification or equivalent level of experience.
* Degree or equivalent level of experience in a leadership, management, or team development, in a highly specialist OD related discipline/subject.
* Coaching & Mentoring Qualification or equivalent experience.
* Qualified or equivalent experience in project management processes.
* Specific Practitioner Accreditation e.g. MBTI, Insights Discovery, Hogan, HLM 360 Feedback
* CIPD Chartered Member.
Knowledge
* Thorough understanding of organisational culture principles, values, and dynamics, with the ability to assess cultural strengths and areas for improvement.
* Good awareness of diversity and inclusion principles, with the ability to navigate cultural differences sensitively and promote inclusive practices.
* Knowledge and prior use of the OD Consulting Cycle.
* Deep understanding of OD and management and leadership theories, including contemporary models and best practices, and the ability to apply these principles effectively.
Experience
* Experience of providing an internal OD consultancy service within an organisation, working with and influencing managers and leaders at all levels of the organisation.
* Experience designing, facilitating and delivering engaging and interactive workshops and focus groups, managing group dynamics, and encouraging active participation from all attendees.
* Proficiency in collecting feedback and evaluating workshop and intervention effectiveness, using data-driven insights to refine workshop content, future interventions, and delivery methods for continuous improvement.
* Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating a broad range of complex OD interventions and programmes to deliver improved outcomes.
* Evidence of successful development and implementation of cultural change to achieve improved performance and outcomes.
Skills
* Exceptional facilitation, communication, and presentation skills.
* Ability to design and deliver relevant and effective OD interventions, based on evidence, and needs of the individual, team, and organisation.
* Ability to receive and convey complex, sensitive, and sometimes contentious information.
* Effective organisational and time management skills.
* Ability to identify challenges or barriers to cultural change within the organisation and develop practical solutions or strategies to address them effectively.
* Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and motivate colleagues of all levels and from across the organisation.
* Ability to analyse complex and sometimes contradictory information to inform effective action.
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
Working for our organisation
* Option to join NHS pension scheme
* A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
* Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
* Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
* Access to occupational health and counselling services.
* Back up buddy App
* Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Equality and Diversity Statement
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief.
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