Head of Organisational Development

Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for the detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join us as our Head of Organisational Development (OD).   Working with the Director of Education, Training and Workforce, you will play a key role in continuing the work to deliver elements of our People Strategy, which aims to make our Trust a great place to thrive, excel and belong.

We are looking for an experienced OD professional who can continue to lead and embed our Leadership Framework and programmes, our team development approaches, enhance and extend our support to staff engagement, provide operational leadership of our Inclusion and Belonging Strategy, and day-to-day leadership of our OD team.

With a flair for creativity and innovation, you will be confident in communicating, partnering and engaging staff at all levels of the organisation.

We are committed to creating an organisation where everyone can feel that they belong and can bring their best selves to work. This is a great opportunity to provide OD leadership and support the strategic direction of the UHS leadership team, operational managers and front-line teams.

We are a dynamic and fast-paced environment, which is always evolving, always improving and encourages innovation. We are committed to your career development and offer a supportive, flexible and collaborative working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What you’ll do

What we’re looking for

• You will lead on the design and delivery of a range of evidence-based OD interventions, which will include leadership development, inclusion, staff engagement and supporting the culture of improvement at UHS, ensuring that this provision directly meets the needs of the business.
• Provide expert OD advice and influential thought leadership to the People agenda at UHS to support the achievement of strategic and operational priorities.
• Extensive knowledge of OD acquired by formal qualifications or equivalent experience or training - gained at a senior level across large-scale, complex organisations.
• Experience in OD diagnostics, use of analytics, and translation of findings into OD solutions at a variety of levels and complexities.
• Provide current thinking on leadership, inclusion, belonging, engagement and organisational development, combined with direct experience of development, design and delivery of organisational-wide cultural transformation programmes.
• Experience of influencing and advising leaders at all levels, together with managing teams and working with external providers.
• Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet our Trust Values of: Patients First, Always Improving, Working Together