Culture & Organisational Development Practitioner

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; West Midlands Combined Authority; Remote; GBP 46,000 - 53,000

Job description

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

About
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services in the West Midlands. We are delighted to be have been awarded Outstanding from the Care Quality Commission. One of our key objectives is to attract and inspire the best people to work here. We're proud to be only one of two specialist Mental Health Trusts in England rated Outstanding by the CQC, and we are not stopping there. Our aim is to be Outstanding in ALL we do and HOW we do it. And that's OUR aim for YOU.

We strive to be recognised as a centre of excellence in both integrated and specialist care, bringing innovative solutions to the services we deliver and the strategies we develop, embedding a culture of continuous learning across our organisation, and supporting and inspiring others. This is reflected in our vision, quality priorities and values.

Our SPAR Quality Priorities are to deliver services that are Safe, Personalised, Accessible and Recovery-focused. Our Values make clear how we want to go about our business - these are to be Proud to CARE - being Compassionate, Approachable, Responsible and Excellent.

• Stoke Community
• North Staffs Community
• Acute and Urgent
• Specialist

We are moving to more integrated services across North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, supporting a new alliance of health and care providers including mental health, primary care, community services, acute services, social care and voluntary sector.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, gender reassignment or pregnancy/maternity. We fully support the right of all staff to equal opportunities and are committed to the development of a diverse workforce.

Key Details

Location: Home Based
Town: Staffordshire
Postcode: ST4 8HH
Contract type & working pattern: Fixed term: 12 months (Home based contract)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Job Overview

Are you a compassionate, inclusive and dynamic individual passionate about OD, people or learning looking to develop your OD career and have a positive impact within a supportive, creative and rewarding NHS People team?

We are looking for an exceptional development practitioner to support our OD, Inclusion and Talent team with the delivery of key people workstreams on a 12 month fixed term or secondment contract. The role will lead key workstreams in Our Combined People Strategy supported by the wider team. Within our ambitious organisation the importance of OD has never been greater making it a fantastic time to take a key role in the future enhancements of our people agenda and the wider and ongoing success of the Trust.

You will support the OD, Inclusion & Talent Team in the delivery of a high quality, professional OD and culture change workstreams in accordance with our Trust Values and in collaboration with the wider organisation's stakeholders.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

This exciting role will entail providing a broad range of OD and Inclusion support to the Trust, during a time of unprecedented change within the NHS. OD and Culture support is seen as crucial to enabling and supporting these changes by the trust, with further OD roles aligned to key workstreams that help develop our people, teams, leadership and the wider organisation.

Internally we are going through large changes to organisational structures, aligning our services based around localities to provide more personalised care, focusing on developing and enabling increased staff engagement and introducing talent management to meet both current and future workforce demands.

There will be sustained work to embed and continue Our Combined People plan ensuring we implement 2 key priorities to become Inclusive & Representative; to Achieve Potential & Aspirations through enhancing Joy in Work which is key to our OD approach.

Joy in Work will support managers and staff so they are better able to manage and deal with change by taking a quality improvement, strengths and evidence based approach to teams and the work they do.

Inclusive and Representative workstreams and Achieve Aspirations and Potential workstreams all ultimately supports the roll out of the Trust's inclusive talent management approach over the 2024 to 2028 period. This is underpinned by the professionalising of our managers through the delivery of mid-level Leadership Programmes.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity. We offer a variety of flexible working opportunities for both full and part time staff. Job Share applicants will be fully considered and applications are particularly welcomed from current and previous service users.

All correspondence at each stage of the process (including any offer packs) will be sent to you via the email address you applied from, please ensure you check your emails regularly.

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PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING POINTS:

• In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.

Priority will be given to NHS staff across the region who are at risk of redundancy, where the vacancy is at the same band or one below their current band and candidates meet the essential criteria for this post.
All employees new to the Trust will be subject to a 6 month probationary period.
All clinical staff bands 2-4 that are new to the Trust will be required to complete a Care Certificate.
Canvassing of members of the Trust or of any Committee of the Trust directly or indirectly for any appointment under the Trust shall disqualify the candidate for such appointment. The Trust does not pay travel expenses for candidates attending interviews.
ALL POSTS INVOLVING ACCESS TO PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF HEALTH SERVICES WILL BE SUBJECT TO A DISCLOSURE & BARRING SERVICE DISCLOSURE.
Please provide full contact details for all referees, especially their email addresses where possible. Failure to do may result in significant delays in your application. There may also be a requirement to provide additional referee details.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Relevant degree level qualification and professional experience in HR or Organisational Development.

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate qualification CIPD qualification at level 5 or higher.

Experience
Essential criteria

• Significant organisational development and inclusion, HR or patient experience.
• Proven facilitation skills with staff at all levels both in person and virtual.
• Coaching and mentoring experience.
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate clearly.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of building partnerships including across System.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jody Nicholls
Job title: Talent & Leadership Manager
Email address: [email protected]