Senior Organisational Development Practitioner

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Organisational Development (PRUH & South Sites)

• Build, embed and maintain strong relationships with care group triumvirate leadership teams and act as a critical ally providing strong OD consultancy.
• Work closely with the HR/People Business Partners to ensure care groups and their leaders receive a holistic People support offer.
• Influence senior management particularly during complex change, encouraging a strategic and people-orientated approach.
• Design and deliver impactful OD interventions and programmes based on an expert and skilful diagnostic underpinned by theory and experience, in an inclusive way which builds client understanding and capability.
• Be a key contributing member of a high performing OD team to deliver a coherent, high quality and efficient OD work plan that supports a multi-site Trust in meeting its BOLD strategy
• Alongside the OD Senior Practitioner for Culture and Experience, HR/People Business Partners and EDI team, support care groups to meet their actions from their annual staff survey responses at PRUH & South Sites
• Alongside the OD Senior Practitioner for Leadership ensure that target care groups have access to and are aware of the wider leadership development offer
• Ensure monthly reporting of OD Partnering is submitted and all interventions are evaluated for individual and organisational effectiveness.
• Lead and work in partnership with national OD organisations, NHS and Non-NHS to develop the underpinning knowledge through research and evaluation
• Be informed by key OD theories; action research, systems theory, OD self as instrument; change theories and actively develops supplemental theories to enhance the impact of OD
• Actively engage in ongoing personal learning and development and team development
• Regularly undertake research and development in relation to organisational development, including horizon scanning for upcoming good practice, benchmarking with other organisations/industries to add value to our internal OD services, triangulation of data to provide meaningful analysis of organisational trends and regularly maintain own continuous professional development.
• Lead, where relevant, the development and implementation of OD policies and processes across the Trust
• Evaluate change and OD programmes in order to identify opportunities for improvement
• Prepare and present regular reports on OD performance of various programmes, achievement against agreed KPIs and programme objectives

Coaching & Mentoring

• Develop and lead on a programme of work that builds and embeds a coaching & mentoring culture at Kings.
• Deliver on key areas in the Trust’s People & Culture Plan relating to coaching & mentoring, ensuring initiatives are aligned with and make a significant contribution to the strategic aims of the Trust
• Develop a number of resources to support managers and staff to embed coaching & mentoring in their teams including refreshing training/workshops and accompanying toolkits.
• Be a lead facilitator for the Trust’s coaching & mentoring workshops and all related interventions.
• Develop a new pool of internal coaches supporting their development and create and maintain related resources/documents such as confidentiality agreements, contracting and lead on supervision sessions for them.
• Develop a pool of internal mentors including their development and supportive resources/documents.
• Responsible for the procurement and review of digital tools and system providers to support the internal coaching & mentoring offer. Lead on contract management of these providers
• Trust lead on executive coaching, ensuring the offer is reviewed and promoted to triumvirate and executive leadership groups.
• Responsible for the procurement, tender of executive coaching providers ensuring sustainability in identifying the best use of NHS budget/funds.
• Maintaining the ongoing relationships with coaching providers and hold regular reviews of adoption, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the Trust’s values and behaviours are front and centre of all coaching & mentoring interventions and programmes.

Financial Management

• Responsibility to contribute to the identification and delivery of cost improvement programmes.
• Lead the development of business cases or bids for investment in new programmes of work.

General 

There may be other portfolios or workforce priorities that fall within the post holders remit and these will be reviewed and agreed with the Deputy Director and Head of OD&L.

The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.

• To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King's College Hospital NHS Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
• To live and role model the King’s Values of:
  • Kind
  • Respectful
  • Team
• To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
• To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
• This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.
• All employees must hold an 'nhs.net' email account which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication.