Job vacancy: Head of Organisational Development, North London NHS Foundation Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: Organisational Development
Grade: Band 8c
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 455-NLFT-0108

Employer: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Anns Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £80,025 - £91,336 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/06/2025 23:59

Head of Organisational Development

Band 8c

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Working with the Director of OD, develop and implement the Partnership’s approach to culture change and OD, ensuring alignment with the Partnership’s vision, values, and strategic aims.

· Lead and enable the cultural and behavioural changes which are needed to embed and sustain performance improvement, and to create a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

· Develop new methodologies and appropriate interventions to improve quality and operational performance and to support local innovation and transformation measures, ensuring improvements to care are tested.

· Provide specialist internal OD consultancy to influence the successful uptake of cultural transformation using distributed leadership as a vehicle to work with senior managers and leaders.

· Implement coaching sessions and mentorship programs to establish a culture of continuous learning and development.

· Identify and monitor the Partnership culture so that is supports the attainment of Partnership goals and promotes enhanced performance, increased recruitment and retention, better job satisfaction and engagement of staff

Work closely with colleagues and stakeholders, and provide support to improvement initiatives, providing expert advice on how to bring about behavioral and cultural changes to support changes in processes, pathways, and systems, to fully deliver and sustain impact.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

Graduate level education and/or professional qualification
Specialist OD knowledge acquired through a degree and CIPD qualification or equivalent experience
Highly developed specialist professional knowledge covering a range of OD functions, underpinned by theoretical knowledge gained through further academic/skills study
Management qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

Evidence of continuing professional Development

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret information and disseminate complex information or recommendations
Highly developed verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to synthesise and articulate highly complex information and build rapport with a diverse audience
Ability to lead others through change, building commitment and managing complexity and uncertainty
Able to develop successful relationships with external stakeholders and work with individuals and groups from a range of backgrounds
Excellent group facilitation, presentation and communications skills
Ability to work in collaboration and build the capability of others through coaching and mentoring
Highly developed partnering skills to enable the capability of others
Ability to manage/priorities own work and work collaboratively to achieve common goals & maximise resources

Desirable criteria

Ability to work with and adjust style to a diverse healthcare population

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant experience and proven track record of delivering complex culture change at team and system level
Working knowledge of OD theory and practice and proven experience in its application to bring about positive culture change
Working knowledge 360 psychometric feedback or other psychometric tools
Good understanding and expert knowledge of: a) OD consultancy cycle and designing interventions b) OD tools and ability to translate to practice at a personal and organisational level c) Change management theory, principles, and tools
Proven experience developing strategies, policies and processes that support organisational analysis and development
Experience in the delivery of complex work, incorporating multiple inputs and stakeholders with fluctuating and competing priorities
Experience in programme and project management
Track record of achievement as a leader with demonstrated significant successes through building relationships

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity
Commitment to Mental Health improvement

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.