Health Play Specialist
1 week ago
The values and behaviors of our staff have a direct impact on the evolution of our culture, and your values will be the most important determining success factor.
Main Responsibilities- 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 behaviors.
- 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 of upcoming good practice, benchmarking with other organisations/industries to add value to our internal People and OD services, triangulation of data to provide meaningful analysis of organisational trends, and regularly maintains own continuous professional development.
- Champion a continuous improvement mindset and a 'can-do' approach.
- Work collaboratively with senior leaders to ensure organisational learning is effective and knowledge and behavioural change is embedded to prevent incidents arising wherever possible and improve overall organisational performance and effectiveness.
- 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.
- Lead on the effective implementation of ongoing value delivery of development, including talent management and succession planning, coaching, and mentoring, leadership, and line manager development.
- Work with the OD Faculty to develop leadership capacity and capability across the organisation, through a range of methods including training, coaching, mentoring, self-development, on-the-job development, E-Learning, and organisation/role design.
- Work collaboratively with key partners, including HR Business Partners and Advisers, the Learning & Development team, and Business planning to ensure OD needs are identified and consistent, joined-up approaches are implemented to support services.
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Education to Masters level or equivalent experience.
- Appropriate professional qualification in organisational development or L&D, e.g. CIPD.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Coaching or mentoring qualification.
- MBTI or similar development tool.
- OD qualification/certification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in people and culture setting in a complex environment.
- Experience of developing OD and culture interventions, plans, policies, and procedures.
- Experience of supporting teams and/or individuals through change.
- Design team development activities and facilitate bespoke learning with multi-professional teams.
- Competency-based learning, and designing assessments of learning.
- Work as a team member.
- Working independently and managing own workload.
- Managing working/project groups.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in People and culture within the NHS.
- Business planning.
- Qualified coach.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Principles and theories of change management and leadership.
- Broad understanding of the OD and Leadership development agenda within the NHS.
- Up-to-date knowledge of development and facilitating techniques and best practice methodology.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Project management skills and ability to see projects through to conclusion.
- Ability to influence and persuade, adapting personal style to meet different situations.
- Excellent presentation/facilitation skills.
- Confident in presenting to groups at all levels and disciplines.
- Good organisational and problem-solving skills.
Desirable criteria
- Strategic culture and OD interventions.
- Organisation design.
- HR/Employee relations.
- Development of E-Learning packages.
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Self-confident, self-motivated, and innovative.
- Exhibits drive and enthusiasm for success and change.
- Demonstrates initiative/ability to work independently and seize opportunities to act.
- Flexible and adaptive style with a willingness to commit to achieving results.
- Aware of own limitations and development needs, strong sense of self.
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