Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Organisational Development Practitioner - Experience and Retention

The closing date is 02 November 2025

Job summary

We are excited to be recruiting for an Organisational Development (OD) Practitioner within the Organisational Development team within the Single Corporate Service. In this role, you will support the design and delivery across a range of OD programmes and interventions. Working closely with other OD practitioners, OD leads and wider stakeholders throughout the organisation to make our Trusts a great place to work.

Main duties of the job

With a flair for creativity and innovation, you will utilise your unique set of skills to support delivery of a range of OD programmes and initiatives across the organisations from agreeing the approach to evaluation of impact.

You will be responsible for day-to-day delivery of staff engagement and staff experience activity across both organisations to ensure that they have a motivated, engaged, and high performing workforce aligned to its business objectives and clinical strategies.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The vision for our single corporate services is to:

Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

Date posted

17 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

REF1794K

Job locations

St Mary's Hosp (IOW), Parkhurst Road

Newport

Isle of Wight

PO30 5TG

Job description

Job responsibilities

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

NHS Band 6 - Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum

Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

You will work with the Organisational Development Lead Experience and Retention to design, deliver and evaluate staff engagement strategies to support the People & Organisational Development Strategy and ensuring that both Trusts are equipped to provide excellence in care for patients and communities; and provide a work environment that staff would recommend as a great place to work. Including but not limited to: annual and quarterly staff surveys, staff benefits and retention strategies, reward and recognition and activities to develop employee engagement and organisational culture. You will be required to work closely with stakeholders including Communications, Improvement, People & OD Department and Learning and Development colleagues to ensure a joined-up approach to staff experience and retention.

For full details of this position, please refer to the enclosed Job Description

Please note, this position has also been advertised on the Isle of Wight NHS Trusts jobs page. If you are interested in this position and wish to apply, there is no requirement for you to submit two separate applications.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

NHS Band 6 - Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum

Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

For full details of this position, please refer to the enclosed Job Description

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge of specialist OD/HR topics to postgraduate diploma level acquired through degree and professional HR Qualification or equivalent level of training experience.
Level 3 or equivalent trainer/facilitator qualification
Evidence of continuous personal professional development

Desirable

Coaching or Mentoring Qualification, MBTI, HLM360 Facilitator

Experience

Essential

Working in the NHS or equivalent large organisation
Experience of design and delivery of engagement activities to understand staff experience
Experience of design and delivery of team development activities and facilitating bespoke learning with multi professional teams
Working with a diverse range of people in a challenging environment

Desirable

Successfully managing and supporting project management in a complex organisation

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge of specialist OD/HR topics to postgraduate diploma level acquired through degree and professional HR Qualification or equivalent level of training experience.
Level 3 or equivalent trainer/facilitator qualification
Evidence of continuous personal professional development

Desirable

Coaching or Mentoring Qualification, MBTI, HLM360 Facilitator

Experience

Essential

Working in the NHS or equivalent large organisation
Experience of design and delivery of engagement activities to understand staff experience
Experience of design and delivery of team development activities and facilitating bespoke learning with multi professional teams
Working with a diverse range of people in a challenging environment

Desirable

Successfully managing and supporting project management in a complex organisation

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Address

St Mary's Hosp (IOW), Parkhurst Road

Newport

Isle of Wight

PO30 5TG

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Address

St Mary's Hosp (IOW), Parkhurst Road

Newport

Isle of Wight

PO30 5TG

Employer's website

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