Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: OD & Talent Manager
Base: Cowley, with flexibility across sites and homeworking
Grade: Band 8A
Hours of work: 37.5
Directorate: People and Communications
Responsible to: Head of Leadership and Talent
Accountable to: Director of Culture, Leadership and Organisational Development
Details: Permanent
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Head of Leadership and Talent, the OD & Talent manager will highly provide specialist OD, leadership and talent expertise to ensure the achievement of the Trusts People Strategy to recruit, retain and develop the best workforce to deliver its goals and objectives.
The post holder will be positioned within a centre of excellence, working cross functionally and closely with key stakeholders to provide expert advice, support, and challenge in service of the organisations aims, ensuring OD, talent and leadership development are aligned to the People Plan priorities and delivery plan.
They will also play a pivotal role in the design and delivery of leadership development and cultural change initiatives in support of the Trusts strategic goals and improvement strategies, aligned to our values and behaviours.
Building on a values-based approach, the post holder will diagnose and deliver OD interventions that will support cultural transformation, build leadership capability and sustainable large scale cultural change both internally and system wide where appropriate.
The role holder will work proactively and collaboratively with the leadership team in the People and Communications Directorate and leaders across the organisation to deliver leadership and management interventions, which will have a significant impact on individual, team and organisational performance in support of excellent patient care and high levels of staff engagement.
The post holder will be responsible for providing talent solutions, such as coaching and mentoring and team development, contributing significantly to the definition and execution of leadership and talent management strategies.
Key Relationships
- Divisional leadership teams
- Professional Groups across Allied Health Professionals, Nursing and Midwifery, Medical and Dental and Corporate Professions
- Divisional Heads of Workforce and their HR teams
- People and Communications Directorate teams
- Staff Side and Trade Union colleagues
- Staff Networks
- People Development Networks
- Integrated Care System (ICS) colleagues
- NHS Elect
- NHS Leadership Academy
- NHS Regional Talent
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
Organisational Development (OD) Delivery
Designs and delivers cutting edge OD interventions which have significant impact on departments and teams. Utilising a wide range of skills, tools and interventions such as coaching, challenging, advanced facilitation skills and working with individual and team psychometric assessments to build high performing teams.
Acts as a trusted partner and proactively builds valued relationships with managers and leaders at every level in the Trust, utilising the staff survey and other data to engage with services to co create and deliver improvement plans aligned to our People Plan and priorities.
Influences and provides advice and challenge to senior stakeholders particularly during complex change, encouraging a relational and people-orientated approach.
Is informed by key theories; coaching, mentoring, action research, systems theory, self as instrument; change theories and actively develops supplemental theories to enhance the impact of OD.
Designs and facilitates workshops and bespoke team interventions across the Trust using appropriate OD models and techniques.
Role models the Trusts values and behaviours and leads from a position of embodying the change required in the system.
Actively engages in ongoing personal learning and development and team development through engagement in continuing professional development in OD, Leadership and Talent
Leadership and Talent Delivery
Designs and delivers leadership and management workshops and programmes across the Trust using appropriate OD models, leadership theories and techniques to maximise the transfer of learning and behavioural change aligned to our values and behaviours.
Supports the Head of Leadership and Talent in the delivery of the talent management strategy, with a particular focus on building the diversity of the pipeline aligned to our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action plans. Takes on people management as required.
Designs and delivers career development initiatives to a wide variety of staff groups who have the aspiration, engagement and motivation to progress in the Trust.
Designs and delivers resources for our people managers to embed career conversations, including providing leaders and managers with the skills and tools to undertake succession planning activity where required.
Delivers a strategy around mentoring and coaching skills, that supports a coaching style of management for people managers and fosters a mentoring culture to support career progression.
Reports and monitors the impact of leadership and talent strategies, adapting approaches based on full evaluation cycle.
Communication and Partnerships
Writes and presents complex and persuasive formal papers and presentations to a wider range of audiences up to and including Board level.
Undertakes academic evidence-based research and case studies to form a compelling case for change and continual improvement.
As a trusted subject matter expert in OD, leadership and talent development, business partners with a wide range of key stakeholders across the Trust, including Divisional senior leaders, Divisional Heads of Workforce, and wider Professional Groups in support of progressing local and trust wide people improvement plans.
Leads the development of policy and procedures related to area of responsibility and expertise, including informing wider policy development across the People and Communications Directorate.
Information Management and Analysis
Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of complex and confidential data and information.
Gather, manipulate and present complex data in accordance with legalisation and the Trust policies and procedures to inform decision making and people strategies.
Lead on the triangulation and synthesis of complex data, both qualitative and quantitative to understand insights into staff experience and produce a range of formats for internal reporting.
Project Management
Establishes and monitors clearly defined project plans for all activity, including key milestones, success criteria, accountability and ownership are identified to ensure successful delivery.
Manage, motivate, persuade, and influence multiple stakeholders and partners to ensure timely completion of work across the projects.
Reports into local and Trusts Corporate Governance on progress, including identifying risks and mitigations.
Financial Responsibilities
Manages contracts with external suppliers, working alongside partners in procurement and finance to ensure the Trust receives best value for money.
Accountable for ensuring allocated budgets and processes are adhered to, including regular monitoring to ensure effective use of the budget across the service.
The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the OD and Talent manager and its purpose within the service; they are not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake additional or alternative duties and responsibilities commensurate with the level of the post, to support the smooth running of the service and provide clear expert advice and guidance to leaders across the Trust.
General Conditions
Risk Management
The management of risk is the responsibility of everyone and will be achieved within a progressive, honest and open environment.
Staff will be provided with the necessary education, training and support to enable them to meet this responsibility.
Staff should be familiar with the
- Major Incident Policy
- Fire Policy
- Information governance
and should make themselves familiar with the local response plan and their role within that response.
Responsibilities for Health and Safety
The post holder is responsible for ensuring that all duties and responsibilities of this post are carried out in compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, Statutory Regulations and Trust Policies and Procedures. This will be supported by the provision of training and specialist advice where required.
Infection Control
Infection Control is everyones responsibility. All staff, both clinical and non-clinical, are required to adhere to the Trusts Infection Prevention and Control Policies and make every effort to maintain high standards of infection control at all times thereby reducing the burden of Healthcare Associated Infections including MRSA.
All staff employed by OUH have the following key responsibilities:
- Staff must wash their hands or use alcohol gel on entry and exit from all clinical areas and/or between each patient contact.
- Staff members have a duty to attend mandatory infection control training provided for them by the Trust.
- Staff members who develop an infection (other than common colds and illness) that may be transmittable to patients have a duty to contact Occupational Health.
