Job summary
We are looking for a new Organisational Consultant to join the Tavistock Consulting (TC) Team.
Our Organisational Consultants play an important role in designing and delivering a range of consultancy interventions, working with other Consultants as part of a team, and ensuring TC has a successful reputation and operates as a financially viable enterprise, making a sustainable financial contribution to the Tavistock and Portman Trust.
Trained in the systems-psychodynamic approach, and with an understanding of its application in an organisational context, successful applicants will work on a range of change, leadership and organisational development projects for individuals, teams and organisations, often in complex and challenging contexts.
Project delivery encompasses a range of activities including planning, budgeting, design, delivery and evaluation and will require the consultant to engage a range of clients in carrying out individual, team, leadership development and organisational consultancy.
Consultants will be required to work flexibly and proactively to deliver individual and project team performance, commercial focus, client outcomes, increased profile and reputation and ongoing learning and innovation.
They will need to be motivated, adaptable and an effective multi-tasker. They will be equally effective working autonomously and as part of a collaborative team and able to work under pressure and at times to demanding deadlines.
Main duties of the job
With excellent written and verbal communication skills, whether face to face or online, the post-holder will be comfortable working across different organisational contexts and ideally have experience of managing relationships with external partners and other stakeholders at senior levels.
Working as a member of a small, expert team, the post-holder will proactively build relationships with immediate colleagues, associates and other stakeholders across the Trust. They will also support our Senior Consultants in leading projects and developing new business opportunities.
Identify new commercial opportunities for Workforce Innovation Unit offerings, and contribute to written proposals, tenders, pitches and presentations and successfully converting these to sales to clientorganisations across all sectors
Design and deliver world-class, cutting-edge organisational consultancy interventions, which have a significant impact on organisational performance. This includes a range of activities aligned withorganisational aims, sponsor objectives and participant concerns including a diagnostic approach where appropriate, expert process facilitation of groups, change consultancy and bespoke programme design and delivery.
About us
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Facilitate online, face to face and hybrid workshops and events for groups of participants, including lectures, conference presentations and experiential learning and enabling those groups to connect to and engage with complex, challenging and often contentious themes andissues.
Work individually with leaders and managers across sectors using a systems-psychodynamic approach. Engage professionally to deliver insight and impact in complex, and challenging situations.
Offer training and supervision to students, and clients and stakeholders seeking development in their role as coaches and organisational consultants.
Assess risks associated with organisational consultancy interventions and consider this in design, ensuring the work is professional and ethical
Work closely with client contacts to both manage the client relationship and ensure organisational learning is achieved when projects are evaluated and reviewed. Present feedback to client via formal meetings,presentations and written reports as appropriate.
Manage a team of consultants, including associates, on any project requiring a team, including contract oversight, budget management, performance management, project meetings, and peer or externally sourced supervision
Applicants should have experience of delivering relevant work in at least one of these sectors:
- NHS and health-related organisations
- Commercial organisations including financial, legal and manufacturing sectors.
- Education, including Higher Education.
- Central and Local Government.
- The Third Sector including charities, social enterprises and charitable foundations.
Currently hybrid working, including based in TC Offices at 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Facilitate online, face to face and hybrid workshops and events for groups of participants, including lectures, conference presentations and experiential learning and enabling those groups to connect to and engage with complex, challenging and often contentious themes andissues.
Work individually with leaders and managers across sectors using a systems-psychodynamic approach. Engage professionally to deliver insight and impact in complex, and challenging situations.
Offer training and supervision to students, and clients and stakeholders seeking development in their role as coaches and organisational consultants.
Assess risks associated with organisational consultancy interventions and consider this in design, ensuring the work is professional and ethical
Work closely with client contacts to both manage the client relationship and ensure organisational learning is achieved when projects are evaluated and reviewed. Present feedback to client via formal meetings,presentations and written reports as appropriate.
Manage a team of consultants, including associates, on any project requiring a team, including contract oversight, budget management, performance management, project meetings, and peer or externally sourced supervision
Applicants should have experience of delivering relevant work in at least one of these sectors:
- NHS and health-related organisations
- Commercial organisations including financial, legal and manufacturing sectors.
- Education, including Higher Education.
- Central and Local Government.
- The Third Sector including charities, social enterprises and charitable foundations.
Currently hybrid working, including based in TC Offices at 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
- Masters qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Professional accreditation in a relevant skill e.g. executive coaching
- Knowledge of health service management, including change management and workforce re- design, acquired through training and experience to Masters or equivalent level
Experience
Essential
- Ability to apply the systems psychodynamics model as part of organisational development work
- Experience of working with groups, e.g. reflective practice, action learning, away days
- Experience of managing or working within a context of organisational chang
Desirable
- Experience of using the systems-psychodynamics model as part of organisational development work
- Experience of winning work, and working on, consultancy projects with organisations in more than one of WIU's target sectors (NHS, third sector, commercial, higher education, central government)
- Experience of working 1- 1 with clients e.g. through executive coaching or role consultancy
- Experience of designing consultancy projects and/or development programmes in
- Experience of using online surveys e.g. for feedback or evaluation
- Experience and knowledge of NHS systems, structures and processes
- Experience of Group Relations Conferences as a member or as a member of staff
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
- Masters qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Professional accreditation in a relevant skill e.g. executive coaching
- Knowledge of health service management, including change management and workforce re- design, acquired through training and experience to Masters or equivalent level
Experience
Essential
- Ability to apply the systems psychodynamics model as part of organisational development work
- Experience of working with groups, e.g. reflective practice, action learning, away days
- Experience of managing or working within a context of organisational chang
Desirable
- Experience of using the systems-psychodynamics model as part of organisational development work
- Experience of winning work, and working on, consultancy projects with organisations in more than one of WIU's target sectors (NHS, third sector, commercial, higher education, central government)
- Experience of working 1- 1 with clients e.g. through executive coaching or role consultancy
- Experience of designing consultancy projects and/or development programmes in
- Experience of using online surveys e.g. for feedback or evaluation
- Experience and knowledge of NHS systems, structures and processes
- Experience of Group Relations Conferences as a member or as a member of staff
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).
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).
