Job summary
- Main area
- HR
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 372-CORP1964-B
- Employer
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Acre Mill
- Town
- Huddersfield
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/01/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/01/2026
Employer heading
OD Coordinator
NHS AfC: Band 5
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.
We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us.
Our Future Plans
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available in a new OD team in Corporate WOD. The main purpose of this role is to support all OD activities, to upskill managers, focus on development for all and ensure One Culture of Care is at the heart of everything that is designed and delivered. This role will be vital in ensuring that the Trusts learning and organisational development package is accessible, will enhance capability and provide learning and development support for all colleagues. We are looking for colleagues would would be confident in delivering learning and development programmes, one culture of care charters, develop page tiger materials, engage with stakeholders and provide support and resources for managers to deliver engagement events and initiatives.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this role is to support all OD activities, to upskill managers, focus on development for all and ensure One Culture of Care is at the heart of everything that is designed and delivered.
Working for our organisation
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Attending and contributing to relevant forums and committees as required
- Play a key role in the promotion, engagement and colleague participation of OD programmes and initiatives such as leadership development programmes, Work Together, Get Results, diagnostic tools (360 degree assessments; MBTI), coaching and action learning sets
- Support the ED&I agenda and related activities such as communication, colleague engagement, workshops, networks and development
- Ensure all governance and regulatory requirements are met and maintained in an efficient and professional manner such as Care Quality Commission (CQC) evidence and other statutory requirements
- Ensure an effective onboarding programme is implemented and well led, ensuring regular contact is made with supervisors/team leaders, to ensure a robust framework is managed and folowed and ensure all new recruits have the appropriate induction, statutory and essential safety training, risk assessments and support
- Undertaking project work as directed by the OD Lead
- Any other duties at an equivalent level of responsibility as may be allocated to the job or delegated for the jobholder’s development
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential criteria
- CIPD Qualification/Post Graduate HR Qualification or working towards qualification or significant experience
- To maintain own CPD ensuring that knowledge and understanding is reviewed and updated to enable appropriate and relevant advice is provided.
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of providing OD and Learning and Development advice in all aspects of colleague experience
- Influencing and supporting line managers to manage informal and formal development related issues.
- Ability to deliver OD and Learning and Development projects.
- Up to date with employment law and best practice.
- Able to interpret and implement HR policies and procedures
- Proactive approach to identifying risks and implementing plans to address them
- Understanding of the NHS and the NHS HR agenda
- Competent in Microsoft Office, able use the internet for research purposes
- Advanced keyboard skills – the ability to gather data from ESR and manipulate this using Excel
- Understanding of the importance of confidentiality and data protection
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS experience
- Project management
- Experience of working in a unionised environment
- Understanding of delivering OD, Learning and Development and general colleague engagement initiatives
- Managing change management issues
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate motivation and resilience
- To plan and manage own workload in a challenging environment of competing and changing priorities
- Demonstrate the ability to interact with people at all levels in the organisation and build positive working relationships
- Able to influence managers and cultures to promote change and support organisational/service objectives
- Excellent communication skills and ability to develop relationships with internal partners as well as external
- Ability to work in a team/own initiative
- Ability to gather facts and write and present complex reports
- Demonstrate the ability to concentrate for prolonged periods where frequent interruptions occur and the work pattern is unpredictable.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Hosty
- Job title
- AD of WOD
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795497362
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