Job summary
- Main area
- Human Resources
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-RD-EMF20095
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 Pro Rata per annum inc.HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Organisational Development Practitioner and Trainer
Band 6
Job overview
Are you passionate about helping people, teams, and organisations thrive?
Do you have a talent for designing impactful learning experiences and facilitating change that really sticks?
If so, we’d love you to join our friendly and forward-thinking Learning & Organisational Development (L&OD) team at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the culture, leadership capability and development of our amazing workforce — and to do it within an organisation that lives its values and puts people at the heart of everything we do.
As an OD Practitioner & Trainer, you will be part of a supportive team that is continuously improving, caring together, excelling together, and learning together. You’ll have the freedom to innovate, try new approaches, and develop your expertise in OD within a culture that genuinely values personal and professional development.
Main duties of the job
In this varied and rewarding role, you will:
- Lead and deliver organisational development programmes
- Co-create blended learning content
- Work with SMEs and our Digital Project Manager to design and quality-assure engaging courses on our My Learning platform.
- Design and facilitate interventions including coaching and mentoring programmes, 360° feedback, MBTI/psychometrics, Affina Team Journey and more.
- Drive the talent, leadership & career development agenda
- Co-deliver workshops, development centres, rising star processes, and career development conversations aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan
- Evaluate impact and shape future strategy
- Use data, research and feedback to continuously improve our OD offerings and contribute to Trust-wide L&OD strategies.
- Lead and line-manage L&OD Administrators
- Supporting an efficient, responsive and high-quality service across our portfolio.
- Be the face of L&OD across the Trust
- Represent the team at meetings, promote opportunities, and proactively engage with services to understand their workforce needs.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You’ll be a confident facilitator, a relationship-builder, and someone who is excited by the challenge of supporting people and organisational change.
We’d love to hear from you if you demonstrate:
- A postgraduate qualification in training, OD or similar, or equivalent experience
- Experience designing, delivering and evaluating development programmes
- Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
- A passion for evidence-based practice, innovation and continuous improvement
- Commitment to our Trust values and inclusive working
Desirable (but not essential) experience includes psychometric accreditation, coaching/mentoring qualifications, NHS OD exposure, Affina accreditation, or experience in talent management.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post graduate qualification e.g. training qualification such as Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Cert Ed) as or CIPD Certificate in Training Practice or equivalent experience
- Organisational Development qualification or CIPD Certificate in Organisational Development or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Psychometric practitioner
- Coaching qualification ILM Level 5 or above
- Mentoring qualification ILM Level 5 or equivalent experience
- Healthcare Leadership Model Facilitator
- Affina team coach accreditation
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Facilitation and delivery of training programmes
- Evaluating programmes
- Experience of facilitating a range of OD interventions
- An expert level of knowledge in Organisational development issues generally and in relation to NHS policy, and best practice
- An expert level of knowledge in leadership & management development issues generally and in relation to NHS policy, and best practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience in devising programmes specifically to aid in organisational development
- Experience in devising programmes specifically to aid in leadership/management development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Arnold
- Job title
- Head of Learning and Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
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