Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Trust’s OD and culture programme, providing expert consultancy to teams and senior leaders.
• Develop and deliver leadership and management development pathways, coaching, mentoring and action‑learning offers.
• Lead the Trust’s approach to wellbeing and people experience, shaping a proactive and inclusive wellbeing strategy.
• Oversee the NHS Staff Survey, Pulse Surveys and staff feedback insight, ensuring robust action planning and assurance.
• Design and deliver team‑level OD interventions that support effectiveness, relationships and performance.
• Coordinate delivery of the Trust’s People Plan across OD, leadership, wellbeing and culture priorities.
• Provide leadership and line management to roles within the OD and wellbeing portfolio.

About You

You will bring:

• Significant experience in organisational development, culture change, leadership development or a related field.
• Strong credibility working with senior leaders in a complex organisation.
• Experience delivering staff wellbeing or people experience initiatives.
• Excellent analytical, communication and relationship‑building skills.
• A commitment to our Trust values: Caring, Inclusive, Ambitious, Belonging and Collaborative.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• Masters level qualification in people services/management, organisational development, leadership or a related field, or equivalent level of knowledge and experience. • Evidence of continuous professional development relevant to OD, leadership, wellbeing or people experience.
• Relevant professional qualification (e.g. CIPD Level 7, CMI, BPS, coaching or facilitation qualification) or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in an OD, leadership or people role within a complex organisation
• Demonstrable experience of leading organisational development, culture change and leadership development initiatives
• Proven experience of leading staff survey processes and developing, coordinating and assuring delivery of staff survey action plans
• Experience of designing and delivering leadership and management development programmes and pathways.
• Experience of leading or contributing to wellbeing strategies and interventions informed by workforce insight and staff feedback.
• Experience of advising, influencing and challenging senior leaders on complex organisational, cultural and workforce issues