# Organisation Development Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** City Health Campus
- **Workplace type:** hybrid
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata/per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30T12:51:00.377Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/BirminghamWest_BromwichDudley/Sandwell_West_Birmingham_NHS_Trust/Learning_Development_OD/Learning_Development_OD-v8157878
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8157878?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.swbh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Sandwell and West Birmingham and Dudley Group Foundation Trusts are seeking experienced Organisation Development (OD) Practitioners to help deliver an ambitious programme of improvement across the Group. The roles will strengthen leadership, team effectiveness and organisational culture, supporting a sustainable workforce and better experiences for staff, patients and the communities we serve.

Quality, sustainability and equity are central to our approach. You will design, deliver and evaluate interventions that build capability at individual, team and organisational levels, working closely leaders across both Trusts to translate Group priorities into practical and measurable change.

We welcome applicants with different OD specialisms. What matters most is your ability to build trusted relationships, engage people across professional and organisational boundaries, facilitate challenging conversations and turn insight into action. You will have the confidence to lead complex pieces of work independently while contributing to a collaborative, learning focused team.

We are committed to investing in your development, creating an environment where colleagues can improve their practice and make a meaningful difference

### Main duties of the job

- Design, deliver and evaluate management development, inclusive leadership and culture change.
- Partner with leaders and teams, provide tailored OD support to strengthen collaboration, inclusion and improvement with a particular focus on supporting complex team development requirements.
- Use coaching, facilitation, engagement methods to support individual and team development.
- Use staff feedback and other evidence to shape interventions, assess impact and adapt the approach.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for specific details of the role and the requirements for applicants.

If you have relevant qualifications & experience, a passion for developing people and want to be part of this opportunity, then we would encourage you to apply.

This role is part of the People & Organisation Development Directorate and is a unique and exciting time to join as we develop and embed our new Group model together with The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, on the journey towards realising our ambitious People Plans.

This role works across all Group and Trust sites and community locations, we support flexible working and are currently operating a hybrid model of home and office based working.

### Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of current organisational development practice, tools and interventions in the NHS and how this relates to effective performance.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience designing, organising and facilitating/delivering successful training sessions/programmes and OD development interventions including leadership/management development programmes and large, complex, multi-disciplinary OD team support
- Extensive experience of diagnosing, developing/designing, facilitating and evaluating large, complex, multi-disciplinary team development interventions

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Masters degree or equivalent level of education/equivalent experience
- Professional Training qualification
- Higher level degree qualification related to role
- MBTI/psychological testing qualification, accredited to use a range of profiling tools including team profiling tools
- ILM level 5 Coaching qualification or equivalent

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10459454)
- [swb- sustainability (pdf, 49.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2657)
- [person specification (docx, 47.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10459455)
- [candidate briefing pack (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2982)
- [swb reward & recognition guide (pdf, 704.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2604)
- [flexible working document – healthier futures (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2437)

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