People and Culture Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The People and Culture Practitioner is a new role bridging the Culture/OD Practitioner and Human Resources interface providing opportunity for a holistic approach and solution to individual and team support where a people and/or culture intervention is required.

As part of the Culture and OD team you will work with colleagues across the boundaries of Culture/OD and Human Resources/Employee Relations supporting the implementation and embedding of our THRIVE values in our systems and process especially in relation to embracing the respectful resolution approach and contributing to the evolution of our Culture and OD strategy.

Responsible to the Assistant Director of Culture and OD, you will have a flexible remit providing culture and OD support and interventions to teams and individuals as well as supporting the active embedding our THRIVE values in all we do.

The values and behaviours of our staff has a direct impact and profound effect on the evolution of our culture and therefore your values will be the most important determining success factor.

The role will be shaped around core values and competencies whilst playing to your own strengths and experience.

Provide a professional internal consultancy service to promote team working, embed our THRIVE values, improve performance and engagement and enable successful delivery of the organisation’s objectives.

Design, deliver and evaluate development interventions including facilitation of workshops, and/or team development as part of work portfolio.

Regularly undertake research and development in relation to culture development, including horizon scanning of upcoming good practice.

Work collaboratively with senior leaders to ensure organisational learning is effective and knowledge and behavioural change is embedded to prevent incidents arising.

Provide support, advice and guidance to managers and teams on how to successfully manage change and is able to offer pragmatic solutions that meet the needs of customer’s service areas.

Working with the OD Faculty, develop leadership capacity and capability across the organisation, through a range of methods.

Work collaboratively with key partners including HR Business Partners and Advisers, the Learning & Development team to ensure OD needs are identified and consistent.

Develop and implement a framework for launch, engagement and dissemination of feedback from annual staff survey and collation and monitoring of action plans.

Design, manage and run development centres as required, including the use of psychometric (behavioural and aptitude tools), and competency analysis frameworks.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Duties and Key Responsibilities
1. Overall Focus
- Contribute to the Trust’s People strategies to improve overall organisational performance and effectiveness.
- Enable leaders to develop and deliver a strategic approach to performance improvement, engagement and change management to support the achievement of the Trust’s desired culture and behaviours.
- Work alongside customers in the business planning process to identify, diagnose and plan to address culture needs through a clear framework and a pragmatic, tailored support to services to enable performance improvement and increased engagement.
- Provide a professional internal consultancy service to promote team working, embed our THRIVE values, improve performance and engagement and enable successful delivery of the organisation’s objectives.
- Demonstrate engaging, pragmatic and business focused leadership and expertise on people and culture across all sites and with key stakeholders.
- Manage and prioritise own portfolio of work, consisting of organisational development, learning and development and project based responsibilities to meet required deadlines and objectives.
- Design, deliver and evaluate development interventions including facilitation of workshops, and/or team development as part of work portfolio.
- Regularly undertake research and development in relation to culture development, including horizon scanning


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