Job summary
- Main area
- Organisational Development
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: 0.8WTE
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 216-YM-CO7621356
- Employer
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Derriford
- Town
- Plymouth
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Organisation Development Consultant
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you energised by the idea of shaping organisational culture, enabling meaningful change, and helping leaders truly thrive? If so, we’d love to hear from you. We’re excited to be recruiting an Organisation Development (OD) Consultant to join our ambitious and people-centred Learning & OD Team at University Hospitals Plymouth.
In this pivotal role, you’ll work as an internal consultant, partnering with leaders and teams across the Trust to design and deliver creative, evidence-based OD interventions that support our strategic objectives and operational priorities. You’ll be at the heart of programmes that enhance employee experience, strengthen organisational effectiveness, and embed our commitment to a respectful, inclusive, safe and compassionate workplace.
You’ll bring deep expertise in organisational development, leadership practice, and facilitation, coupled with the confidence to influence, coach, and inspire colleagues at all levels. This role calls for someone who is curious, innovative, and collaborative — someone who can spot opportunities, build strong relationships, and help create the conditions where both people and services can flourish.
If you’re passionate about making a real impact and shaping the future culture of our Trust, this is an opportunity to do work that genuinely matters. Let’s make great things happen together.
Main duties of the job
What You'll Be Doing:
- Act as a consultant, partnering with leaders to identify challenges and collaboratively design evidence-based OD interventions that drive sustainable change.
- Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and team sessions to inspire collaboration and embed our organisational values.
- Conduct diagnostics to identify barriers to cultural change and develop practical solutions.
- Use data and feedback to evaluate interventions, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational goals.
Organisation Development:
Provide highly specialised expertise and advice in OD practices, including large-scale culture change, facilitation, organisation design, diagnostics, group dynamics, psychometric assessments, and coaching and mentoring.
Leadership & Talent:
In Leadership & Talent, you’ll identify skills gaps, shape targeted development , and measure impact on culture and performance. You’ll coach leaders one-to-one to refine their style, tackle challenges, and achieve goals, using tools like personality and leadership assessments to unlock potential and drive lasting organisational change.
In Workshop and Intervention Delivery, you’ll design and facilitate engaging, interactive sessions that spark reflection, dialogue, and collaboration. You’ll create inclusive spaces where participants actively contribute, build connections across teams, and embrace our organisational values of kindness, compassion, respect, and integrity.
Working for our organisation
We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment manager for this post who will put you in touch with the recruitment team. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PRIMARY DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
What You'll Be Doing:
- Act as a consultant, partnering with leaders to identify challenges and collaboratively design evidence-based OD interventions that drive sustainable change.
- Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and team sessions to inspire collaboration and embed our organisational values.
- Conduct diagnostics to identify barriers to cultural change and develop practical solutions.
- Use data and feedback to evaluate interventions, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational goals.
Organisation Development:
Provide highly specialised expertise and advice in OD practices, including large-scale culture change, facilitation, organisation design, diagnostics, group dynamics, psychometric assessments, and coaching and mentoring.
- Play a key role in the internal OD Consultancy Service, utilising the OD Consulting Cycle and specialist knowledge to deliver an effective, evidence-based service.
- Work with teams to design and implement OD initiatives, monitor impact, and ensure interventions are evaluated effectively.
- Contribute to the development of OD strategies and programmes that align with the Trust's goals.
- Lead in developing and delivering plans to embed the Trust's values and associated behaviours.
- Collaborate with directorates to enhance the capacity and capability of managers to undertake OD activities.
- Introduce a range of tools and methodologies to embed good practice across the Trust.
- Influence and challenge leaders at all levels to act as catalysts for culture change, acting as role models by demonstrating leadership and expertise.
- Analyse and act on information to proactively manage targets, standards, and action plans for OD activity.
- Lead delegated project work, ensuring agreed outcomes are monitored and communicated effectively.
Leadership & Talent:
- Conduct scoping exercises and training needs analysis to identify skills gaps and inform programme content and design.
- Evaluate the impact of programmes to measure behavioural and cultural change against internal and national metrics (e.g., sickness, absence, morale, turnover, NHS Staff Survey).
- Provide one-on-one coaching to leaders to help them refine their leadership style, navigate complex challenges, and achieve personal and organisational goals.
- Use various assessment tools (e.g., personality tests, leadership style inventories) to evaluate leaders strengths, weaknesses, and potential.
Workshop and Intervention Delivery:
- Design, plan, organise, and facilitate workshops, programmes, focus groups, and other interventions.
- Deliver engaging and interactive sessions to stimulate reflection, encourage participation, and promote open dialogue.
- Utilise a variety of instructional techniques and materials to accommodate different learning styles.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive environment during workshops, encouraging active participation from all attendees.
- Promote networking and relationship-building across teams and directorates, enhancing shared understanding among colleagues.
- Act as a champion for organisational values, inspiring colleagues to embrace kindness, compassion, respect, and integrity.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent level of demonstrable experience in a leadership, management, or team development, in a highly specialist OD related discipline/subject.
- Coaching & Mentoring Qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Thorough understanding of organisational culture principles, values, and dynamics, with the ability to assess cultural strengths and areas for improvement.
- Good awareness of diversity and inclusion principles, with the ability to navigate cultural differences sensitively and promote inclusive practices.
- Proven knowledge and prior use of the OD Consulting Cycle.
- Deep understanding of OD and management and leadership theories, including contemporary models and best practices, and the ability to apply these principles effectively.
- Demonstrable experience of providing an internal OD consultancy service within an organisation, working with and influencing managers and leaders at all levels of the organisation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caroline Callow
- Job title
- Head of Learning and Organisational Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01752 437753
- Additional information
Please note my Monday - Thursday working week.
Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.
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