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Job summary

Main area
Corporate Services
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
328-CP-7411856
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The James Cook University Hospital
Town
Middlesbrough
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/11/2025 23:59

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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Culture and OD Practitioner

Band 7

Job overview

The Leadership and Organisation Development (OD) team at University Hospitals Tees aims to support the Group to develop and nurture a culture of compassionate leadership,  safety and continuous quality  improvement, where we behave with respect, support and collaboration.

The Culture and OD Practitioner is a key member of a highly skilled internal consultancy team responsible for planning, designing, delivering and evaluating a range of OD interventions to Group members. This includes expert training, cultural and coaching support to colleagues from mixed professional backgrounds at all levels across University Hospitals Tees to support organisational culture, restorative practice and the EDI agenda. They will also contribute to and deliver our award-winning educational programme to a range of stakeholders across the Group and beyond.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be required to:

Lead and deliver specific areas of leadership, improvement and OD training, including compassionate leadership, continuous quality improvement, civility and human factors and applied behavioural science

Maintain a portfolio of OD projects within the team's internal consultancy programme, including scoping, delivering and evaluating their own and others' activity

Source, promote  and appropriately apply a range of culture and OD opportunities and solutions, particularly acting as subject matter expert in culture and OD

Track emergent and strategic development trends in relation to culture and OD, ensuring that our local provision is fit for purpose across a diverse hospital group model and continually developing skills within team development, coaching and mentoring

Provide leadership, managerial support, facilitation and ongoing service development to direct reports, colleagues, peers and other clients

Ensure all resources, planning and delivery schedules are in place to deliver, evaluate and report impact assessment for service assurance

Support the development of an inclusive, restorative just and learning culture

Line manage the aligned Leadership and Improvement Facilitator

Deputise for the Senior Culture and OD Consultant when required

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff.  This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

 

·         Your Leadership Impact

·         Leading your Team to Success

·         Leading Into the Future

·         Service Improvement for Beginners

·         Developing your Service Improvement Skills

·         Lean Practitioner

 

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

 

·         Explore leadership within the NHS

·         Promote Trust values and behaviours

·         Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills

·         Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

 After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Extensive knowledge of OD principles and organisational culture related issues
  • Delivery of interventional support, education and training within the field of culture and OD
  • Extensive experience of designing and delivering training packages, spanning multiple subject disciplines
  • Advanced operational organisational skills within training delivery, planning and evaluation
  • Experience of assessing and accrediting training and designing training feedback
  • Demonstrable ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and maintain a customer-centric mind-set (keeping the patient at the centre)
  • Demonstrable ability to deliver high quality work within a high-pressured and ambiguous environment
  • Can effectively translate strategic goals/concepts into practical learning experiences

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating in-house development programmes
  • Excellent and proven communication and organisational skills with a range of stakeholders
  • Excellent IT skills
  • Able to work under pressure and with ambiguity at peak periods against deadlines – organisational skills
  • Able to work autonomously and prioritise workloads accordingly.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in leading and managing teams
  • An ability to analyse and act on both written and verbal information using a proactive approach
  • Evidence of delivery of training programmes and workshops, both virtually and face to face.

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters level qualification, or equivalent, in a subject related to the delivery of health care, health care leadership and management or organisational development.
  • Relatable culture and OD qualifications or demonstrable experience.
  • Training and qualification in the use of psychometric profiling tools and techniques
  • Minimum L5 Coaching and Mentoring accreditation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dan Fawkes
Job title
Group Head of Leadership and OD
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01642 850850
Additional information

ext 57150

Jo Lloyd

Senior Programme Manager and OD Consultant

[email protected]

Tel: 01642 850850 ext 57150

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