Job summary
Associate Director of Organisational Development and Culture, Band 8D
At Barts Health NHS Trust, we are committed to becoming a truly flexible employer and encourage applications of variety flexible working options.
We are looking for a compassionate and collaborative leader to head up our friendly OD Team as an Associate Director of Organisational Development and Culture and be a senior member of the OD and People Strategy team. This is an amazing opportunity for someone passionate about OD and wellbeing to enable our Barts Health Group of Hospitals in achieving its ambition to be an outstanding place to work.
The key elements of the role include:
- Shaping the organisational culture
- Leading the delivery of our Wellbeing Strategy
- Leading the development of the Trust's leadership framework
- Supporting the development and approach to talent management that retains and attracts people from the communities that we serve
Main duties of the job
Based at our high-spec offices in Canary Wharf and travelling to our hospital sites and enjoying the flexibility of our agile way of working, you will lead on some of the most important agendas within the organisation. You will bring your OD subject matter expertise to lead the co-design and implementation of an overall approach to achieving cultural change and lead the Trust OD team providing leadership, expertise, advice and interventions across our Group of hospitals.
You will lead the Wellbeing agenda working closely with colleagues across the People Directorate, Hospital Executive Boards (HEBs) and colleagues across the wider Trust to deliver our Wellbeing Strategy and to promote and improve the health and wellbeing of our people.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment..
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In conjunction with Trust leaders, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of interventions that embed the Barts Health WeCare Values and concern for wellbeing into everyday processes, practices and behaviours. You will take a co-design approach working with colleagues from across our group to effectively deliver change.
We are looking for someone who has previous experience of leading and managing teams, designing and delivering OD interventions, an extensive experience of OD practice using context-appropriate methodologies in large, complex organisations and experience of leading the co-design and implementation of large-scale change initiatives.
If you are interested in this post, we would like to hear from you. If you would like to have an informal discussion, please contact Aurea Jones, Director of People Strategy & OD on aurea.jones@nhs.net or the current postholder on geraldine.cunningham2@nhs.net
***Interviews will be held on Monday,4th July 2022***
Job description
Job responsibilities
In conjunction with Trust leaders, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of interventions that embed the Barts Health WeCare Values and concern for wellbeing into everyday processes, practices and behaviours. You will take a co-design approach working with colleagues from across our group to effectively deliver change.
We are looking for someone who has previous experience of leading and managing teams, designing and delivering OD interventions, an extensive experience of OD practice using context-appropriate methodologies in large, complex organisations and experience of leading the co-design and implementation of large-scale change initiatives.
If you are interested in this post, we would like to hear from you. If you would like to have an informal discussion, please contact Aurea Jones, Director of People Strategy & OD on aurea.jones@nhs.net or the current postholder on geraldine.cunningham2@nhs.net
***Interviews will be held on Monday,4th July 2022***
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master level qualification in Organisational Development or equivalent qualification or experience
- Evidence of ongoing professional development to maintain up to date subject matter expertise
- Qualification and/or accreditation in use of psychometrics, specialist OD tools and techniques
Desirable
- Registration and/or membership of appropriate professional body
- Coaching and/or mentoring qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of leading and managing a team
- Evidence of financial management and business planning in the context of budget constraints
- Extensive experience of Organisational Development practice using context-appropriate methodologies in large complex organisations, some of which should be in a health care or health service environment, including commissioning, diagnostic, design, delivery and evaluation
- Experience of working directly with leaders and teams to affect behavioural and cultural change, including in both situations where there may be resistance and conflict, and also with high performing teams.
- Designing, facilitating and evaluating large group interventions both face to face and using virtual communication
- Experience of leading co-design and implementation of large-scale change initiatives and programmes
- Experience of designing high quality, credible, forward-thinking leadership and management development programmes and initiatives that support leaders and managers to make significant change to their practice
- Experience of designing and facilitating focus groups, workshops, large scale events, and assessment for development centres
- Experience of commissioning external agencies to deliver against an internal change specification
- Demonstrable experience of working in partnership and of influencing with senior leaders and with staff at every level and of challenging constructively the status quo
- Experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful partnerships across a range of organisations
Desirable
- Experience of leading or contributing to a corporate strategy outside field of expertise
- Experience of delivering a wellbeing programme across a team or organisation.
- Experience of preparing bids and proven success in attracting additional funding
- Experience of working in complex clinical environments
- Experience of designing and delivering a leadership strategy that reflects the organizations values and contributes to the delivery of the organizations vision
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable subject matter expertise and specialist knowledge in OD, leadership development, staff engagement, team dynamics and organisational change
- Highly developed and up to date knowledge and understanding of organisational development and design, change methodologies and systems thinking
- Specialist knowledge of OD consultancy models, including contracting, diagnostics and co-design
- Knowledge of the Data Protection Act
- Knowledge of diversity and inclusion and inclusive practice
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge and understanding of the changing national and local NHS environment strategy and policy agendas
Skills
Essential
- Able to assess, intervene and evaluate highly complex, often contentious, communication issues and styles
- Excellent communicator - using a range of media on across different levels to both internal and external audiences, able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information.
- High degree of self-awareness of their own conscious and unconscious processes in order to manage individuals teams and groups in the 'moment' when a full range of emotional responses can arise
- Skilled in conflict management approaches and resolution when working with challenging teams and individuals
- Analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data and ability to present the information in support of action in a style that reflects the needs of the audience.
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills that can be adapted to suit different participants.
- Excellent networking and influencing skills bringing people together in the interest of improvement.
- Highly developed facilitation skills for a range of contexts e.g. large-group development processes, learning sets, formal teaching setting, informal settings
- Coaching and mentoring skills in both formal and informal settings to improve individual and team performance
- IT skills to support agile and hybrid working and the facilitation of groups
Desirable
- Project management skills and advanced organisational skills, including developing strategies and plans to deliver Trust objectives for OD
Other
Essential
- Ability to work with minimal direction, in a planned and organised way and deliver against tight schedules
- Ability to be creative, innovative and formulate new ideas and concepts and engage others in adoption and delivery.
- Demonstrable ability to take a team with them from project initiation to completion.
- Demonstrable ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines and work independently.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master level qualification in Organisational Development or equivalent qualification or experience
- Evidence of ongoing professional development to maintain up to date subject matter expertise
- Qualification and/or accreditation in use of psychometrics, specialist OD tools and techniques
Desirable
- Registration and/or membership of appropriate professional body
- Coaching and/or mentoring qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of leading and managing a team
- Evidence of financial management and business planning in the context of budget constraints
- Extensive experience of Organisational Development practice using context-appropriate methodologies in large complex organisations, some of which should be in a health care or health service environment, including commissioning, diagnostic, design, delivery and evaluation
- Experience of working directly with leaders and teams to affect behavioural and cultural change, including in both situations where there may be resistance and conflict, and also with high performing teams.
- Designing, facilitating and evaluating large group interventions both face to face and using virtual communication
- Experience of leading co-design and implementation of large-scale change initiatives and programmes
- Experience of designing high quality, credible, forward-thinking leadership and management development programmes and initiatives that support leaders and managers to make significant change to their practice
- Experience of designing and facilitating focus groups, workshops, large scale events, and assessment for development centres
- Experience of commissioning external agencies to deliver against an internal change specification
- Demonstrable experience of working in partnership and of influencing with senior leaders and with staff at every level and of challenging constructively the status quo
- Experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful partnerships across a range of organisations
Desirable
- Experience of leading or contributing to a corporate strategy outside field of expertise
- Experience of delivering a wellbeing programme across a team or organisation.
- Experience of preparing bids and proven success in attracting additional funding
- Experience of working in complex clinical environments
- Experience of designing and delivering a leadership strategy that reflects the organizations values and contributes to the delivery of the organizations vision
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable subject matter expertise and specialist knowledge in OD, leadership development, staff engagement, team dynamics and organisational change
- Highly developed and up to date knowledge and understanding of organisational development and design, change methodologies and systems thinking
- Specialist knowledge of OD consultancy models, including contracting, diagnostics and co-design
- Knowledge of the Data Protection Act
- Knowledge of diversity and inclusion and inclusive practice
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge and understanding of the changing national and local NHS environment strategy and policy agendas
Skills
Essential
- Able to assess, intervene and evaluate highly complex, often contentious, communication issues and styles
- Excellent communicator - using a range of media on across different levels to both internal and external audiences, able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information.
- High degree of self-awareness of their own conscious and unconscious processes in order to manage individuals teams and groups in the 'moment' when a full range of emotional responses can arise
- Skilled in conflict management approaches and resolution when working with challenging teams and individuals
- Analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data and ability to present the information in support of action in a style that reflects the needs of the audience.
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills that can be adapted to suit different participants.
- Excellent networking and influencing skills bringing people together in the interest of improvement.
- Highly developed facilitation skills for a range of contexts e.g. large-group development processes, learning sets, formal teaching setting, informal settings
- Coaching and mentoring skills in both formal and informal settings to improve individual and team performance
- IT skills to support agile and hybrid working and the facilitation of groups
Desirable
- Project management skills and advanced organisational skills, including developing strategies and plans to deliver Trust objectives for OD
Other
Essential
- Ability to work with minimal direction, in a planned and organised way and deliver against tight schedules
- Ability to be creative, innovative and formulate new ideas and concepts and engage others in adoption and delivery.
- Demonstrable ability to take a team with them from project initiation to completion.
- Demonstrable ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines and work independently.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
