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Job summary

Main area
Organisational Development
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Job share - 15 hours per week (Flexible in respect of how the hours are worked - but must meet service requirements)
Job ref
151-SR151-A
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Greenwood Office
Town
Ascot
Salary
£37,162 - £44,629 per annum incl HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/07/2024 23:59

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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Organisational Development Advisor

Band 6

Job overview

Organisational Development has a vital role in the delivery of Frimley Health NHS Trust’s ambition to be outstanding in staff experience, including being one of the best NHS Trusts to work for.

This role will support the delivery of Organisational Development programmes in areas of work that are important to the Trusts culture, staff experience, leadership and the People Promise. 

Support the delivery of OD initiatives that respond to the needs of our staff as reported through our National Staff Survey, Culture and Leadership Programme and the range of ways in which we seek to hear the voices of our staff. 

 

Main duties of the job

Support the delivery of the Frimley Health People Strategy through delivery of a range of programmes and OD interventions.

You will be required to  create and maintain effective working relationships with the wider HROD team, key stakeholders and staff networks to inform and support the delivery and evaluation of OD initiatives 

The role requires agility to be able to identify emerging opportunities in relation to people and change and use a variety of approaches including facilitation and coaching combined with leadership models to design and deliver planned and unplanned OD interventions.

We are looking for a team player and an OD Practitioner who is passionate about culture change.

You will be based out of our offices in Ascot and required to work across our acute sites at Frimley, Wexham as well as a number of community services across the Frimley Health footprint.

 

 

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the attached job description/job specification attached to this vacancy. 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Person specification

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of employee engagement approaches
  • Up to date knowledge of facilitation approaches
  • Planning skills and ability to formulate and adjust plans to reflect changing circumstances
  • Excellent facilitation and presentation skills

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree level qualification in related subject or equivalent relevant experience
  • Training qualification or relevant experience
  • Coach/mentoring or relevant experience
Desirable criteria
  • Member of CIPD
  • Continuous Improvement qualification (i.e.Six Sigma, LEAN)
  • Team/systemic team coaching

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating development/OD interventions and programmes
  • Experience of carrying out diagnostic work and using findings to inform work
  • Experience of facilitating group interventions
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of facilitating large group interventions
  • Experience of working in the NHS or a large complex organisation

Special Requirements

Essential criteria
  • There is a need to be flexible with working hours in order to accommodate service needs
  • Ability to travel and work across all Frimley Health sites

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employer

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Shaminder Flora
Job title
Head of OD, EDI and Wellbeing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07774329128
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