Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Organisational Consultant

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Job summary

We are looking for a Senior Organisational Consultant to join the Tavistock Consulting (TC) Team on a full-time, permanent basis.

Our Senior Organisational Consultants play a crucial part in identifying potential clients, attracting and developing business interest, converting interest to sales and then designing and delivering a range of consultancy interventions. Working alongside other Senior Consultants and line managing and working with Organisational Consultants as part of a wider team, the Senior Consultant plays a key role in ensuring TC has a successful reputation and operates as a financially viable enterprise, making a sustainable financial contribution to the Tavistock and Portman Trust.

Main duties of the job

Trained in the systems-psychodynamic approach, applicants should have significant consulting and coaching experience with senior staff in more than one of the following sectors.

  • NHS and health-related organisations
  • Commercial organisations including the financial sector, legal and professional services, and manufacturing.
  • Education, including higher education.
  • Central and local government
  • The third sector including charities, social enterprises, and charitable foundations.

The Senior Organisational Consultant is responsible for generating business, acquiring clients and sales, and leading the delivery of highly specialist organisational interventions. This includes planning, budgeting, design, delivery, and evaluation as well as engaging a range of senior-level clients and delivering individual, team, leadership development and organisational consultancy.

All Senior Organisational Consultants are responsible for line managing internal organisational consultants as well as managing external associates and project managers on specific projects.

All Consultants are required to work flexibly to deliver individual and project team performance, commercial focus, client outcomes, increased revenue and profile, reputation and ongoing learning and innovation.

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

Tavistock Consulting (TC) was formed in 1994 to provide coaching and consultancy to leaders and their teams in commercial organisations. The aim in establishing Tavistock Consulting was to apply the psychoanalytic and systems thinking embedded in the Tavistock tradition to working with organisations, to impact in a meaningful manner on the workplace and the workforce and to generate income to support the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

Through specialised interventions in the areas of organisation and system change, team effectiveness and leadership development, we help clients to develop a strong and effective organisational culture that supports their staff to perform at their best in complex and often challenging environments.

See https://tavistockconsulting.co.uk/ for more information.

Details

Date posted

15 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£66,718 to £76,271 a year per annum including HCAS (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

260-TP-640

Job locations

Tavistock Clinic

120 Belsize Lane

London

NW3 5BA


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Senior Organisational Consultant role plays a crucial part in delivering Tavistock Consulting strategy, taking up specialist delivery working with other consultants as part of a team, and ensuring Tavistock Consulting has a successful reputation and operates as a financially viable enterprise, contributing to the Tavistock and Portman Trust.

Working as a member of an expert team, the post-holder will proactively build relationships with immediate colleagues, associates, stakeholders in the trust, and with clients and potential clients to identify and develop new business opportunities

All Senior Organisational Consultants are responsible for line managing internal organisational consultants as well as managing external associates and project managers on specific projects. Senior Organisational Consultants have their own sales targets to achieve and hold responsibility for ensuring those less senior consultants they line manage, also achieve their sales and delivery targets. All Consultants are required to work flexibly to deliver individual and project team performance, commercial focus, client outcomes, increased revenue and profile, reputation and ongoing learning and innovation.

TC currently supports hybrid working. This includes home based working, and there is a requirement for some onsite working in TC Offices at 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA and onsite at client locations.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Senior Organisational Consultant role plays a crucial part in delivering Tavistock Consulting strategy, taking up specialist delivery working with other consultants as part of a team, and ensuring Tavistock Consulting has a successful reputation and operates as a financially viable enterprise, contributing to the Tavistock and Portman Trust.

Working as a member of an expert team, the post-holder will proactively build relationships with immediate colleagues, associates, stakeholders in the trust, and with clients and potential clients to identify and develop new business opportunities

All Senior Organisational Consultants are responsible for line managing internal organisational consultants as well as managing external associates and project managers on specific projects. Senior Organisational Consultants have their own sales targets to achieve and hold responsibility for ensuring those less senior consultants they line manage, also achieve their sales and delivery targets. All Consultants are required to work flexibly to deliver individual and project team performance, commercial focus, client outcomes, increased revenue and profile, reputation and ongoing learning and innovation.

TC currently supports hybrid working. This includes home based working, and there is a requirement for some onsite working in TC Offices at 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA and onsite at client locations.

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
  • Post graduate qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Professional accreditation in a relevant skill e.g. Executive Coaching

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced in using 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 working 1-1 with clients e.g. through executive coaching or role consultancy
  • Experience of designing impactful consultancy projects and/or development programmes in response to client briefs
  • Experience of managing or working within a context of organisational change

Desirable

  • Experience of working on consultancy projects with organisations in more than one of TC's target sectors (NHS, Third Sector, Commercial, Higher Education, Central Government)
  • Experience of working on consultancy projects within complex systems
  • Experience in a leadership or senior management role
  • Experience of managing relationships with external partners and other stakeholders at senior management level
  • Experience of managing relationships with external partners and other stakeholders at exec/board level
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Undergraduate qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
  • Post graduate qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Professional accreditation in a relevant skill e.g. Executive Coaching

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced in using 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 working 1-1 with clients e.g. through executive coaching or role consultancy
  • Experience of designing impactful consultancy projects and/or development programmes in response to client briefs
  • Experience of managing or working within a context of organisational change

Desirable

  • Experience of working on consultancy projects with organisations in more than one of TC's target sectors (NHS, Third Sector, Commercial, Higher Education, Central Government)
  • Experience of working on consultancy projects within complex systems
  • Experience in a leadership or senior management role
  • Experience of managing relationships with external partners and other stakeholders at senior management level
  • Experience of managing relationships with external partners and other stakeholders at exec/board level

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tavistock Clinic

120 Belsize Lane

London

NW3 5BA


Employer's website

https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tavistock Clinic

120 Belsize Lane

London

NW3 5BA


Employer's website

https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Director, Tavistock Consulting

Charlotte Williams

tc@tavistockconsulting.co.uk

Details

Date posted

15 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£66,718 to £76,271 a year per annum including HCAS (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

260-TP-640

Job locations

Tavistock Clinic

120 Belsize Lane

London

NW3 5BA


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