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Director of Organisational Development (OD) and Inclusion
Accepting applications until: 20-Jul-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 20-Jul-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Cobbett House, Oxford Road Campus
- Address
- Oxford Road
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 9WL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 9)
Specialty
- Main area
- Director of People
- Interview date
- 31/07/2025
Job overview
Join MFT as our Director of Organisational Development & Inclusion and drive your career to new heights, at one of the largest and most complex NHS Trusts in England.
This newly created role means you have the opportunity to shape, influence and build how and where you want it to impact. Reporting directly to the Deputy Chief People Officer, you will be working in collaboration with our senior leadership teams to design and implement strategic organisational development and inclusion initiatives which drive a compassionate and inclusive culture together with strategic ownership of comprehensive leadership development programmes.
It goes without saying you will have autonomy to drive organisational development and inclusion transformation strategically and skilfully, achieved by influencing decision making and increasing organisational and individual awareness of exceptional OD and inclusion practice, through the introduction, development and maintenance of leading-edge interventions.
As for you, you are passionate about all things ‘organisational development and inclusion’, recognised as a role model leader with a compassionate and supportive style, an eagerness to empower others in decision making, with the expertise to encourage our teams to know they make valuable contributions, leading to a high performing, inclusive, open, and transparent culture.
If this all chimes with you, we would love to hear from you.
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With extensive experience working at senior management level in a health, social care, or similar large complex organisations, you will provide effective leadership within the OD & Inclusion team, ensuring individual contributions are maximised, and development needs are met, creating a truly integrated OD & inclusion service.
With a successful record in service improvement & change, delivered across a complex organisation, you will make a significant contribution to the overall success of the Trust, setting & implementing strategic objectives as part of the MFT People Plan and other key Trust Strategies.
With significant experience of providing advice on OD and inclusion matters, in a large, complex, multi-professional organisation, you will lead the development and maintenance of MFT-wide OD & inclusion policies.
With a thorough understanding and practical experience of delivering large scale OD and inclusion engagement initiatives, you will work with other colleagues to influence how the OD and inclusion experience shapes organisational direction, strategy and focus, using the MFT People Plan as an enabler for change.
With considerable experience of developing and applying OD & inclusion strategies, employment law and policies, you will actively engage in national policy development, Greater Manchester and Northwest Region strategy & change, researching best practice across the NHS, ensuring MFT is innovative in its approach to the OD and inclusion profession.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke ‘Candidate Information Pack’ which provides specific information about the role and the Selection Process. To request a copy of this pack, please contact Executive Assistant/Office Manager to Chief People Officer & Deputy CPO Susan Ramnaught, via email [email protected].
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications – Academic / Professional
Essential criteria
- High level of general education to degree level or equivalent.
- Educated to Master’s level or holder of relevant professional qualification in Organisational Development, Change, Social Psychology or similar field.
- Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Track record of continuous personal and professional development.
Strategic Leadership
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working at a senior level within a similarly complex organisation.
- A high-level understanding of the national NHS agenda and the contribution of equality at both a strategic and operational level.
- In-depth knowledge of a number of disciplines such as EDI, OD, Strategy and leadership. Able to facilitate change in a way that inspires and engages the organisation.
- Successful track record in a senior OD role operating in a complex environment/sector.
- Significant track record of building leadership capability, team development, facilitation, and OD skills. Proven track record of leading the development of compassionate and inclusive cultures from team to organisation level;
- Able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of corporate and business issues with a strong emphasis on quality.
- Track record in the successful management & leadership of a HR/OD function.
- A proven ability to deliver consistently to best practice standards of OD.
- Able to work across professional and organisational boundaries and in partnership with a wide range of key stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in equality and diversity issues with demonstrable experience of developing and implementing equality and diversity initiatives
- A strong track record of managing competing demands and delivering successful OD programmes in a tight financial climate.
- Substantial experience of leading a high performing workforce or organisational development function which has enabled business transformation.
- Extensive in-depth demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through management teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
- Extensive experience of working at senior management level to manage team(s) and to influence strategy, policy and project development and implementation
- Knowledge of legal compliance for risk management, including a full understanding of the Health Act, Health and Safety, and equality legislation and the ability to advise on its implementation through strategic development, policy development, governance, risk assurance
Wider NHS and health context
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of the wider NHS agenda and challenges.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly developed OD skill-set, including ability to diagnose organisational / systemic issues to identify areas for improvement and develop targeted interventions;
- Regularly undertakes research and development in relation to organisational development and capability requirements, including horizon scanning for upcoming good practice, benchmarking with other organisations/industries to add value to our internal OD and EDI services, triangulation of data to provide meaningful analysis of organisational trends and regularly maintains own continuous professional development;
- Strong interpersonal skills and personal credibility, able to show honesty and integrity, and quickly gain the confidence of and build relationships with others, including managers, clinicians, and staff.
- Innovation and creativity – ability to make decisions that encourages new ways of working and develop a culture of innovation. Curious and open to new ideas with a willingness to take calculated risks.
- Achievement focused – has a vision for the future and how to get there delivering actions to achieve continuous improvement and organisational goals.
- Politically astute.
- Demonstrates integrity and self-awareness, holding self to account and able responds constructively to challenge.
- Resilient under pressure and in the face of adversity with a strong ability to manage competing priorities.
- Sets high standards for self and team and motivates and inspires others to achieve these.
- Committed to building a culture of continuous learning and improvement; creating a shared purpose building motivation and commitment.
- Initiative – sees opportunities and acts on them – demonstrates a can-do attitude.
- Decision making – ability to make decisions based on an analysis of key financial, people or service concepts.
- Strong ability to communicate with credibility, trust and respect, adapting style for the situation and able to work collaboratively and inclusively with a range of colleagues from different backgrounds.
- Acts as a role model for NHS values, demonstrating compassion in delivery, and has a personal commitment to building equality and inclusion.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Susan Ramnaught
- Job title
- Executive Assistant/Office Manager (Workforce)
- Email address
- [email protected].
- Additional information
Susan Ramnaught
Executive Assistant/Office Manager to Chief People Officer & Deputy CPO
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