Organisational Development/ Effectiveness Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

About

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is also commissioned for services that cover North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to perfect care - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

We call this continuous improvement in quality and cost, striving for perfect care. Our aim is to play a full part in the health and social care economies we serve, by promoting and driving greater integration between mental and physical health and social care.

Our clinical services are provided across over 170 sites spanning a large part of the North West. Our services are supported by corporate teams based at our offices in Kings Business Park, Prescot, and Hollins Park, Warrington.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Key details

Location

Site: Hollins Park, Town: Warrington, Postcode: WA2 8WA, Major / Minor Region: Merseyside

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (12 months), Hours: 37.5 hours per week

• Full time
• Flexible working

Salary

Grade: Band 6

Specialty

Main area: Organisational Development

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Job Overview

We are looking for a new practitioner within our Organisational Development Team. We are looking for that person who "gets" Organisational Development (OD), who knows the impact it has when done well across an organisation and can show us how OD runs through every aspect of what they do.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Support the development of a quality, improvement culture by supporting the systematic development of high performing, multi-disciplinary teams across Mersey Care.
• Support the development of quality systems and processes for collating and analysing information to measure and explore organisational performance to enhance organisational capacity and capability.
• Analyse and act on information to proactively manage agreed targets, standards, activity reports and action plans for all Organisational Development activity.
• Develop and maintain systems and processes to ensure that learning needs are identified and met.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of Organisational Development policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Design and deliver sustainable Organisational Development interventions in line with organisational and service requirements, legislation and best practice.
• Support the development and implementation of Talent Management, Succession Planning and Appraisal schemes.
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise.
• Develop and maintain systems and processes to promote a healthy, safe and secure working environment.
• Take responsibility for own learning and development.

The role will involve hybrid working with a mix of home working and travel across the Mersey Care footprint.

Person specification

Values

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Responsive to service users
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discrete

Skills

• Excellent facilitation, mediation & communication skills
• Ability to design, deliver and evaluate innovative, high quality learning interventions.
• Change Management skills
• Coaching & Mentoring skills
• IT skills used for developing Practice Ability to manage/ prioritise own work but also to work collaboratively.
• Data analysis to support OD interventions

Qualifications

• 1st Degree/appropriate professional qualification in Leadership /Organisational Development.
• Specific OD Practitioner Certification.

Knowledge and experience

• Experience of embedding organisational values.
• Experience of supporting workforce implications of Health & Social Care reform.
• Good understanding of leadership and management theory.