Organisational Development Consultant inNottingham inNottingham PUBLISHED 13 NOV 2024
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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.
About usCommunicate a wide range of OD information that is highly complex and highly sensitive to all levels across organisations including at a strategic level. This will require excellent interpersonal abilities and an ability to reach consensus.
Organise and deliver launch events, training sessions, and other OD and QI activities within maternity services.
Ensure staff and service user feedback is captured, used, addressed and effectively communicated within the programme.
Build and maintain positive, productive and effective working relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external) patients and partner organisations
Lead by example in terms of leadership behaviour and effectiveness; unblock barriers to effective team working and establish collaborative and supportive working between relevant teams
Communicate effectively on highly complex and sensitive subjects that may impact/delay a project delivery due to unforeseen circumstances and put solutions in place.
Act as a professional role model in dealing with staff, managers and teams in a sensitive and empathetic manner, utilising persuasive communication skills to provide OD advice and interventions for teams and team leader
Please see detailed job descriptions attached.
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.
About us
Communicate a wide range of OD information that is highly complex and highly sensitive to all levels across organisations including at a strategic level. This will require excellent interpersonal abilities and an ability to reach consensus.
Organise and deliver launch events, training sessions, and other OD and QI activities within maternity services.
Ensure staff and service user feedback is captured, used, addressed and effectively communicated within the programme.
Build and maintain positive, productive and effective working relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external) patients and partner organisations
Lead by example in terms of leadership behaviour and effectiveness; unblock barriers to effective team working and establish collaborative and supportive working between relevant teams
Communicate effectively on highly complex and sensitive subjects that may impact/delay a project delivery due to unforeseen circumstances and put solutions in place.
Act as a professional role model in dealing with staff, managers and teams in a sensitive and empathetic manner, utilising persuasive communication skills to provide OD advice and interventions for teams and team leader
Please see detailed job descriptions attached.
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