# Leadership, Talent and Organisational Development Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/leadership-talent-and-organisational-development-lead/a8dbf542-4db6-49be-9625-a48ac82854b7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/leadership-talent-and-organisational-development-lead/a8dbf542-4db6-49be-9625-a48ac82854b7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** London House (Head Office) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Human resources manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £68,852 - £79,638 per annum (incl. of HCAS) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T10:11:55.325Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Berkshire/Bracknell/Berkshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Leadership_Management_Development/Leadership_Management_Development-v8273422 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8273422?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced organisational development professional with a passion for OD, leadership, talent and culture? Do you have a track record of leading change and influencing senior stakeholders within a complex organisation? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Leadership, Talent and Organisational Development (OD) Lead to join Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This is a pivotal strategic role, leading the Trust's leadership, talent and organisational development agenda to build leadership capability, foster an inclusive and high-performing culture, and drive the delivery of our People Strategy. Working in partnership with Executive Directors, senior leaders and colleagues across the Trust, you will provide expert leadership and consultancy on organisational development and design (ODD), helping to shape innovative solutions that enhance organisational effectiveness, staff engagement, inclusion and continuous improvement. You will lead a specialist OD team, overseeing a broad portfolio including leadership and management development, talent and succession planning, coaching and mentoring, organisational development consultancy, and culture change programmes. This is an outstanding opportunity to make a lasting impact, influencing strategic priorities and helping to ensure Berkshire Healthcare remains a great place to work, where colleagues can thrive and deliver exceptional care for our communities. ### Main duties of the job As Leadership, Talent and OD Lead, you will set the strategic direction for the Trust's leadership, talent and organisational development portfolio, ensuring alignment with the People Strategy, NHS priorities and organisational objectives. You will provide expert consultancy to Executive Directors, senior leaders and divisional teams on leadership development, organisational effectiveness, talent management, engagement and culture change. You will lead the design, implementation and evaluation of leadership and management programmes, talent and succession initiatives, coaching and mentoring networks, psychometric assessment processes and organisation-wide ODD interventions. Working collaboratively across the Trust and wider system, you will use workforce intelligence and organisational data to identify priorities, evaluate impact and deliver sustainable improvements in performance, inclusion and staff experience. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The ‘must haves’ for this role: - Extensive professional knowledge acquired through a master's level qualification or equivalent experience in Organisational. Development, Organisational Psychology, Leadership, Management or a related discipline. - Significant senior-level experience in organisational development, leadership, talent management, people strategy or organisational change within a large and complex organisation. - Significant experience leading a Leadership, Talent and OD team and service. - Proven experience of leading organisation-wide change, culture and leadership initiatives and delivering measurable improvements in organisational performance and employee experience. - Knowledge and experience of organisation design and transformational change. - Strong consultancy, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and work across professional boundaries. - Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating leadership and management development programmes and organisational development interventions. - Experience of delivering, leading and embedding inclusive change initiatives with an understanding of the dynamics of change and the effects on people. - Ability to travel across sites and attend regional and national meetings as required. For further information, please see attached job description and person specification. Please ensure your supporting statement clearly demonstrates how your skills, knowledge and experience match the essential requirements of the Person Specification. We recommend addressing each requirement individually and providing relevant examples. We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and ‘Other’ Ethnic Groups. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed. We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Ash Ellis, Deputy Director for Leadership, Inclusion and Organisational Experience, for a conversation about the role: ash.ellis@berkshire.nhs.uk. Interviews for this role will be held on Friday, 25th September 2026. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey. In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted. Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible. ## Person Specification ### Education and Training **Essential** - Extensive professional knowledge acquired through master’s level degree or equivalent level of experience (in relevant subject area such as MSc Organisational Psychology, Organisational Development or Leadership/Management. - Coaching/mentoring qualification or substantial experience of coaching and/or mentoring a range of people. - Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development. - Teaching/Training qualification or equivalent level of experience. - Psychometric analysis qualification such as MBTI, Hogan, Insights, Disc. (Pref Hogan). - Workplace Mediation qualification or willingness to undertake. - Large scale project management qualification (eg Prince 2) or equivalent experience including experience in delivering EDI and/or leadership programs. ### Additional Requirements **Essential** - Ability to meet travel needs of the post as required. - Ability to attend local, and ad hoc regional and national events. ### Experience and Knowledge **Essential** - Significant senior experience in Organisational development, Organisational Design, leadership, talent and change within a large and complex organisation. - Significant experience and track record of leading organisation-wide change and transformation programmes that deliver improved outcomes, culture, engagement or performance. - Significant and recent experience of working as an internal or external OD consultant and providing an OD consultancy service Including experience of scoping, design, analytical and diagnostic skills to implement OD interventions to meet a range of different stakeholder needs. - Experience of communicating with Executive Directors, senior leaders or equivalent senior stakeholders on complex, sensitive and high-impact organisational development, culture, leadership or change issues, adapting communication to suit the audience. - Experience of developing Trust-wide or organisation-wide strategies, frameworks, policies or guidance and securing senior stakeholder agreement for implementation. - Significant experience of designing and delivering a range of high quality, high impact leadership development programmes. - Experience of delivering, leading and embedding inclusive change initiatives, with an understanding of the dynamics of change and the effects on people, as well as equality impacts. Understanding of, and commitment to antiracism. - Experience of evaluating and evidencing the impact of learning and development programmes, OD interventions and culture change, including developing relevant return on investment measures, key performance indicators, assurance reports and reporting mechanisms. - Ability to lead an OD team with visibility, credibility and compassion to develop and maintain capability, high standards of care, learning culture, accountability and performance. - Experience of budget management resource planning, commissioning, procurement or contract management. - Proven strategic skills with demonstrated ability to develop, translate, and implement organisational strategy into efficient and measurable outcomes, including delivery of transformational and cultural change within a large, diverse organisation. ### Knowledge, Skills & Abilities **Essential** - Excellent facilitation and consultancy skills; Ability to facilitate and chair workshops/ groups and deliver presentations/interventions to all levels of individuals in an engaging and interactive way. - Innovative, with the ability to ‘think differently’ and challenge current behaviours and mind-sets, making service improvements. - Ability to think strategically, exercise sound professional judgement and consider complex organisational, political, cultural, operational and stakeholder factors in order to develop the most impactful OD solution. - Ability to apply analytical and diagnostic skills to make a wider corporate contribution to the organisation’s strategies and decision making, operating comfortably at the most senior levels of the organisation and across multiple professional disciplines. - Able to work with significant autonomy, prioritise complex and competing demands, manage risk and make decisions where there may be no obvious precedent. - Highly developed analytical skills with an ability to solve problems in high pressure situations. - Advanced IT skills with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and MS Teams. ## Documents - [working for us (pdf, 773.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10588974) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 159.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10588975) - [value based recruitment behaviour framework (pdf, 453.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10588973) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.