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Organisational Development Strategic Lead

The closing date is 25 August 2025

Are you passionate about people and maximising their potential in work?

We have two great opportunities to join the leadership team of a high performing mental health, learning disabilities and community NHS trust. We're looking for two values-driven, innovative and highly skilled professionals to join our team within the HR Directorate as the Strategic Lead: Learning & Development and the Strategic Lead: Organisational Development.

Our strategic goals are to deliver High Quality Care, Better Health, Sustainability and a Great Place to Work. Our People Strategy gives six commitments to achieve our Great Place to Work ambitions including: -

• Health and well-being
• Great culture, values & behaviours
• Equality, diversity & inclusion
• Full potential

Main duties of the job

Strategic Lead: Organisational Development

Band 8A - £55,690,215 to £62,682 per annum (dependent on experience)

Hours: 37 1/2 hours per week (Full Time)

Base: Invista Training Hub, Gloucester with some travel to other locations and home-working (Hybrid working)

We are seeking an exceptional Strategic Lead for Organisational Development to drive transformational change across our organisation. This pivotal role requires a visionary leader who can design and implement comprehensive organisational development strategies that enhance patient outcomes, improve staff engagement, and build sustainable operational excellence.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will possess extensive experience in healthcare transformation, change management, and stakeholder engagement, with the ability to navigate complex multi-disciplinary environments while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will lead cross-functional teams, develop innovative solutions to organisational challenges, and ensure our workforce is equipped to deliver outstanding care in an evolving healthcare landscape. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on both organisational effectiveness and patient care quality across our healthcare system.

This role provides strategic leadership and operational management of the Trusts OD function, developing and driving innovation through high quality OD practice, expert knowledge and guidance. You will lead and oversee the operational delivery of Organisational Development Programmes across the Trust, including the development and delivery of various portfolios aligned to our Leadership & Culture programme which includes Restorative Just and Learning, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership and Management, Well-being, Values & Behaviours and Freedom to Speak Up.

Bringing energy, insight and a focus for inclusion and reducing inequalities, you will have responsibility for developing and driving a high-performance service culture whilst also instigating and supporting a range of organisational development initiatives. You will be highly driven, goal and action orientated, have a talent for inspiring and motivating teams, with a track-record of delivery.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience in OD/ HR
• Successfully completed an approved leadership qualification/Coaching qualification at post graduate level
• CIPD registered
• Project management Qualification e.g. PRINCE2 or similar
• Psychometric tools and techniques e.g. Myers Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI)

Experience

• Previous management experience at a senior level
• Experience of staff management/ staff supervision
• Experience of Change management, especially the management of transition
• Experience of organisational development gained through strategic management and leadership development. This could include policy development, programme/project design delivery and evaluation.
• Experience of organisational development and change consultancy.
• Experience of working within a complex environment and managing relationships with key stakeholders.
• Experience in managing/facilitating complex, multi-agency and whole systems organisational/service changes
• Experience in facilitating people and services through change and transition.
• Budgetary income/management experience.
• Experience of change management tools and techniques to support change within health and social care

Professional/Managerial/Specialist

• Experience of working on ESR/OLM or similar Learning Management System, including data analysis and reporting
• Specialist training in range of OD tools and techniques
• Other education, learning and organisational development tools
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance Framework skills in managing conflicting priorities and delivering within challenging time and resource constraints
• Previous experience of working within the NHS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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