Job summary
- Main area
- Organisational Development & Leadership Consultant
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-6187672-A
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free London Hospital Roy Shaw Building
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 ODL Consultant
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
The Organisational Development and Leadership purpose is to be a catalyst for change in leadership impact, at scale and depth, beyond the moment.
In order to deliver on our purpose, ODL operates as an internal consultancy delivering value to the Group in the following ways:
- We engage at a strategic level. Our approach is to be agile, credible and impactful group wide; and to provide a catalyst for change in our culture and leadership.
- Linked directly to our strategic priorities. The GEMM annually direct OD resources at the key strategic objectives to ensure that ODL has the optimal impact. We will also try to accommodate ad-hoc requests for work if they are aligned to the Groups key strategic objectives.
- We use our expertise to enable change at the individual, team and Group level. Our work is anchored in outcomes that make a positive difference and building OD capacity in the organisation, for sustainable change.
- We operate as a connector across the organisation and work strategically with other change agents including Human Resources, Service Transformation, Clinical Practice Groups and Quality Improvement.
- In the interests of progress, our work focuses on compassionately disrupting unhelpful patterns, behaviours and practices and as such OD is impartial.
- OD purposefully works with dialogic OD practices – those that expand the range of voices in all conversations in order to create shared meaning, generate new knowledge that leads to transformational change.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The current priorities for the ODL team is the implementation and continuous improvement of the Leadership Framework, learning pathways and development offers, and the delivery of the OD plan (primarily through through systemic team development interventions) as agreed by the GEMM. The post holder will be involved in both of these priorities.
The OD consultant will have the opportunity to work as part of a team and independently on OD projects and/ or support SOD consultants to diagnose, design and implement complex OD, as well as delivery of pathways and development offers. introducing best practice OD, leadership & learning approaches to maximise organisational health and effectiveness.
The post holder will deputise for the Senior OD consultants as required.
Working for our organisation
The primary purpose of ODL is:
To bring our expertise to develop capability of our leaders in an agile way, with a focus on behaviours, attitudes, and mindsets to support a well led culture that makes us the very best trust we can be.
To deliver on our ODL purpose and meet the needs of the business, our ODL ecosystem consists of 3 interconnected areas, all building leadership capability with a slightly different focus. The 3 interconnected areas are:
Leadership development - building leaders through learning interventions offered at scale
ODL offerings - building leaders through bespoke interventions & projects
Talent -building leaders through focused talent cohorts
all in the service of helping achieve world class patient experience & outcomes
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Service Delivery Responsibilities:
OD Provision
- To be part of a small team of OD consultants to contribute to the development of the in-house service for both planned and ad hoc work.
- To be part of the team who commission, design, implement and evaluate open door OD commissioned work.
- To lead on and/or support OD consultants to identify, diagnose and plan OD interventions based on client needs and in line with the OD consultancy cycle.
- To support OD consultants with the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions relating to trust-wide transformation programmes, quality improvement, leadership and talent and complex team development work
- To proactively engage in relationship-building with key stakeholders and partners across the trust i.e. clients, transformation, HR, QI, patient safety, service re-design.
- Provide expert facilitation and/or co-facilitation, coaching and personal and team development to improve team effectiveness
- Deputise for the OD consultants as necessary
Leadership Pathways & Development offer
- To oversee the delivery of a pathway of development (from beginning to end).
- Facilitate Peer Learning and /or Action Learning Sessions
- Ensuring that there are adequate administrative resources that are clear about their tasks and objectives.
- Ensure advertising, promotion, application process & validation of applicants by LEC and Group Directors ( provide a list of participants to relevant management teams)
- To prepare, and contribute to, reports as required
- To lead on the organisation and co-ordination of leadership pathways/s across the trust and work in collaboration with colleagues to deliver and/or facilitate elements of the programmes
- Conduct learning needs analyses to underpin the design of leadership pathways where directed to do so
General ODL services
- To participate in the continued development and effective implementation of an in-house coaching and mentoring service to support leaders at all levels across the trust
- Facilitate individual 360 feedback sessions as requested internally or externally
- Facilitate and co-facilitate MBTI individual/team sessions as requested
- Undertake individual coaching to leaders at the trust, via the Coaching & Mentoring hub, to support them with their development
- Commission and manage external learning providers to support the delivery of leadership pathways, development offers, coach and mentor skills training programmes and other OD interventions
Person specification
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in organisational development or related field e.g. psychology, behavioural science OR requisite experience
Desirable criteria
- MBTI practitioner level 1 and 2 (or working towards)
- Coaching qualification
- 360 facilitation
- Action Learning Set facilitation
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of designing and delivering leadership training/ development programmes
- Experience of working in a large, complex, culturally diverse organisation
- Experience of engaging, collaborating with and managing stakeholders
- Knowledge of organisational development and change management theory
- Experience of advising leaders on OD issues
- Experience of supporting organisational and behavioural change
- Experience of group facilitation and/or co-facilitation to small audiences of up to 70 people
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda O'Connor
- Job title
- Principal ODL Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7794 0500
- Additional information
- If you are not able to contact Amanda O'Connor please contact Catherine Abrey, Principal OD Consultant, as an alternative.
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Please note we are not currently contactable by phone. Please email with your telephone number and we will get back to you asap.
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Support
Open Monday to Friday
08:30 am to 17:30pm
- Telephone
- 01629 702338
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