People and OD Partner

Job overview

The People and Organisational Development (OD) Partner is a key role in the Trust at a time of significant change, where we aim to grow the capacity and expertise of our people and our people and OD team, whilst supporting our organisation deliver expert patient care in a learning and people focused environment. The Trust is developing three strategic pillars to enable this: 1. Strengthening the organisation (by building a resilient and high performing organisation)

• Joining up care (integrating care around people and communities to improve outcomes and equities)
• Improving how we work (embracing information, using information more effectively and enabling our people)

Main duties of the job

Our future People Partnering offer will be closely embedded with Clinical and Corporate Boards to enable the Trust to translate ambitions for patient care into the people priorities required to deliver them. To achieve this, people partners will focus on outcomes over activity, for example through insight-driven workforce planning, oversight of complex Employee Relations cases, leadership coaching, culture shaping and organisational change programmes. They will draw on specialist teams for targeted support, ensuring People Plans land with impact and consistency. To provide a streamlined service for managers, this team will work closely with: o People Operations o Investigation Hub o Digital and Culture teams

To achieve this, the post holder will have a major focus on strategic oversight of Clinical Boards and building the capability of our people and leaders through our people plans and organisational development offer across the Trust and this role will be pivotal. The People and OD Partner must be able to build and sustain positive working relationships with staff at all levels and across all organisations, with operational and clinical teams, and teams within corporate areas, such as finance or ICT. The post holder will need to plan work and potentially respond at short notice to requests from Executives and/or Boards.

The People and OD Partner will be required to have deep subject matter expertise in people issues covering both Human Resources (such as Employee Relations, workforce planning matter) and Organisational Development (including culture, leadership and behavioural change, organisational design and staff experience. The People and OD Partner should have demonstrable experience of managing organisational change working in a project management environment. Experience of working across organisations from mobilisation to completion stages of projects is required. The post holder must be able to take ownership of people and OD aspects of projects. The post holder will also be required to line manage, support and develop Deputy People and OD Partners and Associate People and OD partners to ensure

The role will require working flexibly to tight timescales across multiple teams and workstreams. A commitment to co-production and working with people and OD colleagues within other Integrated Care System (ICS) organisations is essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Strategic people and OD oversight of the relevant Clinical or Corporate Board(s) – overseeing everything as a trusted member of those Boards and the Senior Leadership teams to ensure People and OD matters are considered
• Being a strategic people adviser to Clinical Boards and SLTs to link Trust strategy with annual people plans.Develop collaborative and close working relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders including members of the Trust Board, Clinical Board senior triumvirates, line managers, staff side representatives, service users, volunteers, and external partners to ensure that they are appropriately informed and engaged in the development and implementation of workforce and organisational policies, strategies and plans.
• Produce Board and Exec level updates to link into the relevant committees / meetings.
• Support the delivery of the priorities identified in the Trust’s People Strategy, delivering systems and strategies that will improve organisational performance and quality through the development of the workforce.
• Lead on the analysis of any identified cross organisational People and OD policies and implementation of specific People and OD initiatives and schemes, as agreed with the Deputy Director of People and OD or the Director for People and OD.
• Advise on the creation of local People and OD procedures, protocols, and guidance where necessary, ensuring consistency and shared learning across the Trust.
• Provide strategic workforce advice on OD initiatives and strategic change management, using workforce data to inform decision making and planning.