Job summary
Are you passionate about enhancing workplace culture and improving patient care? Do you thrive on using data to drive positive change and foster a supportive environment? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We are seeking a dynamic and skilled Organisational Development and Engagement Partner to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hopspitals. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in supporting the design, development, and delivery of organisational development, engagement, and improvement activities across the Trust and the wider healthcare system. Your efforts will directly contribute to making SFH a fantastic place to work and improve patient care.
If you're ready to help us create a great place to work and improve patient care, we'd love to hear from you! Join us in making a difference in our community and beyond.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of training, delivery and organisational development
- Current knowledge of a range of OD theories and methodologies
- IT literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
- Demonstrate understanding of acute hospital culture, systems and processes
Desirable
- Knowledge of quality improvement approaches
- Knowledge of NHS IT systems eg ESR
- Knowledge of NHS Staff Surveys
- Understanding of NHS People Plan
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Training, Teaching and Facilitation qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- OD Practitioner qualification or equivalent
- Coaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of developing and delivering training and OD interventions
- Significant experience of facilitating focus groups and delivering presentations
- Significant experience of managing organisational surveys, data interpretation and quality assurance frameworks
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Credibility to work with all staff groups
- Excellent report writing skills, with the ability to present complex and /or sensitive information
- Self-motivated, flexible 'can-do' team worker
- Resilient and able to challenge
- Ability to manage conflicting pressures and to meet deadlines
Desirable
- Previous NHS experience
- Experience of working within an OD function
- Experience of working with clinical and non-clinical teams
- Experience of managing projects
- Experience of supporting quality improvement programmes
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work across the geographical area; travelling to other hospital sites
- Flexibility to attend meetings outside core working hours
- Ability to work with clinical staff in clinical settings if required
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of training, delivery and organisational development
- Current knowledge of a range of OD theories and methodologies
- IT literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
- Demonstrate understanding of acute hospital culture, systems and processes
Desirable
- Knowledge of quality improvement approaches
- Knowledge of NHS IT systems eg ESR
- Knowledge of NHS Staff Surveys
- Understanding of NHS People Plan
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Training, Teaching and Facilitation qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- OD Practitioner qualification or equivalent
- Coaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of developing and delivering training and OD interventions
- Significant experience of facilitating focus groups and delivering presentations
- Significant experience of managing organisational surveys, data interpretation and quality assurance frameworks
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Credibility to work with all staff groups
- Excellent report writing skills, with the ability to present complex and /or sensitive information
- Self-motivated, flexible 'can-do' team worker
- Resilient and able to challenge
- Ability to manage conflicting pressures and to meet deadlines
Desirable
- Previous NHS experience
- Experience of working within an OD function
- Experience of working with clinical and non-clinical teams
- Experience of managing projects
- Experience of supporting quality improvement programmes
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work across the geographical area; travelling to other hospital sites
- Flexibility to attend meetings outside core working hours
- Ability to work with clinical staff in clinical settings if required
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
