Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 277-6412349-CORP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pinewood House
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £75,853 - £86,574 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/07/2024
Employer heading
Assistant Director of Strategy, OD and Improvement
Band 8c
Job overview
Following a restructure to align our culture and improvement programmes, a fantastic opportunity has arisen to lead our new Strategy, Organisational Development and Strategic Improvement Team. We are currently finalising our Trust Strategy for 2024 – 2027. To successfully deliver on these plans, we need a continued focus on driving effective cultural change, using continuous improvement, change management and organisational development methodologies.
You will be responsible for operationalising strategy delivery, integrating OD initiatives and best-practice improvements to address cultural and process aspects of change. The role will support the alignment of our People and Quality programmes, exploring innovative approaches to project delivery. You will also lead on key programmes including leadership development, staff engagement, retention and wellbeing.
You will be an excellent, compassionate leader who will be passionate about ensuring that our Oxleas values can be felt throughout the organisation. You will be a key part of the People Senior Management Team, as well as working closely with the Quality Team. You will work with us to ensure staff members feel a strong sense of belonging as part of the Oxleas family. We are proud to have been awarded HSJ Trust of the Year 2023. We are continuously striving for improvement and we want every member of staff to feel that Oxleas is the best place to work. You will have a key role in helping us to achieving this ambition.
Main duties of the job
You will work alongside our Executive Team to deliver the Trust’s strategic ambitions for the coming years. You will lead and manage key strategic programmes, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to deliver these. You will need to secure support and engagement with the programmes from all stakeholders, influencing and collaborating to achieve the desired results.
You will drive cultural transformation in alignment with our overall strategy and values. You will oversee the creation and execution of employee engagement strategies to boost retention and workforce involvement. Focus areas will include talent management, career development and team effectiveness.
You will lead the design, delivery, and execution of large-scale strategic change and improvement programmes, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the Trust. You will ensure strategic programmes blend improvement and change management methodologies with organisational development strategies. You will seamlessly integrate programme and project management approaches to deliver key strategic initiatives, while tracking milestones, risks, and performance objectives.
You will have the ability to formulate long-term strategic plans, in an ever-changing landscape. As a specialist in strategy, organisational development and improvement, you will advise the organisation on policy implementation, best practice and developments in these areas.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Do you have a passion for organisational development and continuous improvement? Do you have experience of strategy development, informed by staff and service user feedback and best practice? Do you have demonstrable experience of leading and implementing large-scale cultural change across complex working environments?
If you can bring us, through your personal life experience or professional skills, insights that will enhance our ability to make a significant difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff members and the treatment of our service users, we would love to hear from you.
We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We welcome applications from all people, including those from a global majority background, those who live with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the main responsibilities of this role.
If you would like an informal conversation about the role, please contact Rachel C Evans, Director of Strategy & People, or Kim Gilbey, Associate Director of People via email [email protected] or [email protected].
Interviews will be held on 18 July 2024.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through a masters degree or equivalent.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of service and organisational. transformation tools, techniques and methodologies.
- Either a CIPD qualification or equivalent Organisational Development qualification.
- Evidence of QI training and understanding e.g.QSIR.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as PRINCE2.
Experience
Essential criteria
- In depth experience of operating at senior management level.
- Demonstrable experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful partnerships across a range of stakeholders.
- Experience of strategy development, informed by staff and service user feedback and best practice.
- Demonstrable experience of leading and implementing large-scale organisational or cultural change across complex working environments.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- Considerable and recent experience working in a senior OD role in a complex environment.
- Knowledge of OD theory and Change management models.
- Experience of leading projects to a successful conclusion.
- Experience of designing strategic programmes of engagement and plans.
- Strong track record of promoting and delivering organisational and transformational change.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kim Gilbey
- Job title
- Associate Director of People
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02038715641
- Additional information
If you would like an informal conversation about the role, please contact Rachel C Evans, Director of Strategy & People, or Kim Gilbey, Associate Director of People via email [email protected] or [email protected].
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