Organisational Development (OD) Partner

Job overview

We’re looking for an experienced Organisational Development (OD) Partner to join our Leadership and OD team and play a key role in building organisational capability, strengthening leadership and supporting sustainable cultural and organisational improvement across the Trust. Working in partnership with leaders and teams, you’ll use your expertise in OD, behavioural science and change methodologies to design and deliver evidence-based interventions that improve culture, employee engagement, leadership capability and team performance. You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Design and deliver tailored OD interventions that create meaningful and sustainable change.
• Facilitate strategic conversations, workshops and team development sessions.
• Provide expert consultancy, coaching and support to leaders and managers.
• Lead key elements of the Trust’s Leadership and OD Strategy.
• Develop programmes that support our workforce, culture and transformation priorities.
• Evaluate OD and learning interventions and demonstrate their impact.
• Build strong relationships and promote an inclusive, engaging and enabling culture.

We’re looking for someone with strong OD expertise, excellent facilitation and coaching skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships and influence at all levels. If you’re ready to make a real difference to our people, teams and organisation, apply today!

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert OD consultancy and advice to senior leaders, managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Build trusted relationships, constructively challenge and influence stakeholders to support strategic priorities and organisational improvement.
• Diagnose complex team, leadership and cultural challenges and design evidence-based OD interventions.
• Lead complex Trust-wide OD, leadership development and change projects, managing priorities, risks and resources.
• Facilitate strategic conversations, workshops, team development, conflict resolution and reflective practice.
• Lead leadership, management and personal effectiveness programmes and support ongoing learning through networks and peer development.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to leaders and teams, while developing internal coaching and facilitation capability.
• Lead organisational change and transformation initiatives, supporting sustainable behavioural and cultural change.
• Evaluate OD and leadership interventions, using data and evidence to demonstrate impact and inform decision-making.
• Produce reports, evaluations and assurance information for senior stakeholders.
• Contribute to the Trust’s Leadership and OD Strategy and lead designated Trust-wide initiatives.
• Promote the Trust’s values, behaviours, inclusion and employee engagement through OD practice.
• Identify opportunities for service improvement and continuously develop OD processes and interventions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• Masters Degree or equivalent knowledge and experience 2. Training or teaching qualification or equivalent experience 3. Mentoring and/or coaching qualification, and or Psychometric testing e.g. Hogan Affina OD etc and or Mediation qualification or willingness to undertake 4. Experience of providing OD consultancy to senior leaders and management teams. 5. Experience of leading organisation-wide OD, culture change or transformation projects 6. Ability to travel to multiple sites and transport training materials

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

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.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, 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 call: Ash Ellis on 07342061967 or email: Ash.Ellis@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help

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.

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.