Organisational Development Consultant

The Organisational Development Consultant is a key role in the Maternity Improvement Programme (MIP) team focused on driving and delivering substantial improvements across the Maternity Service in response to regulatory, coronial and practice reviews.

Working as a core member of the MIP Team, the post holder will provide leadership, direction, professional curiosity and direct support within maternity services. The post holder will work with key stakeholders and interdependent projects and programmes, to foster greater wellbeing, develop leadership capacity, develop a safety culture, a culture of civility and embed a sense of shared ownership/responsibility and accountability across the service. This will set the foundations for long- term sustainable change and improvement that will support the development of clinical excellence across maternity pathways.

Applying a ‘whole system’ perspective the post holder will utilise a combination of organisational development and improvement skills to support the delivery of sustainable cultural and transformational change.

The post holder will quickly establish credibility, build and maintain excellent working relationships at all levels of the organisation, ensuring partnership working at all times and effectively bringing together programmes of work.

The post holder will work flexibly, across all Trust campuses and external locations as required.

As identified in the NHS People Plan (August 2020) Compassionate and Inclusive Leadership is at the heart of moving the NHS forward, as is a Culture of Civility. This role will be instrumental in ensuring leadership and cultural change within Maternity is aligned to the Trust’s Culture and Leadership Strategy and People Plan.

Provide leading edge thinking, advice and challenge to leaders on organisation development issues pertaining to major change QI programmes from a platform of systemic and complex change

Work in close collaboration with others to ensure that OD and quality improvement interventions are integral and linked to all other activities within the MIP to achieve a holistic approach that drives delivery and change.

Support team working within the MIP Team by ensuring that individual effort is coordinated with other team members to meet overall team goals.

Influences and supports changes in organisational behaviour.

Consistently and effectively builds trusting relationships with individual leaders and teams.

Continuously builds the credibility and visibility of OD services within Maternity Services.

Gives advice and develops interventions resulting in service wide changes.

Working closely with the key stakeholders across NUH and partners e.g. Organisational Development Team, Learning Team, Human Resources, Quality Improvement and Transformation Team, Nursing & Midwifery Institute, Patient Safety Team.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Phil Walmsley Job title: Divisional General Manager Email address: [email protected]