Group Director of Organisational Development & Culture

This role represents a fantastic opportunity to positively impact a large and impressive NHS organisation at scale. Reporting directly to the Group Chief People Officer, this role is an integral part of the People Function's senior leadership team, with shared accountability for delivery of all our People Strategy and plans. They will take the lead on the strategic development and implementation of cultural initiatives, utilising evidence-based practices to support organisational development diagnostics that facilitates meaningful and sustainable change across the Group. They will drive our equality, diversity and inclusion agenda with innovation and passion. They will improve organisational effectiveness through capability building, enhancing employee engagement, and fostering a high-performance culture within our Group. Working closely with our Executive team and stakeholder across the organisation, they will design and deliver strategies that align with our ambitious organisational
objectives. This role can also be based in Epsom with the salary adjusted to reflect the appropriate HCAS, based on the successful candidate's preference. Regular travel to all gesh sites will be expected.

Main duties of the job

This role will be pivotal in integrating and redesigning organisational development and culture-related services across the Group, enabling clinical services to be as effective, innovative, and resilient as possible. They will lead the development and delivery of the Group-wide organisational development offer, utilising their significant expertise to oversee the roll out of programmes that deliver sustainable change, engaging with senior leaders to improve organisational effectiveness and organisational health by aligning the way we work to our values and behaviours.

An integral part of the role will be leadership of the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda, where there has been a commitment to develop the organisational culture to make the Group a more inclusive place to work to enable great patient care.

They will provide leadership on Group-wide corporate learning and development, adopting and maximising the potential of local and national developments, integrating dynamic digital platforms across the health & social care system to meet complex changing needs of our workforce and services.

They will lead staff wellbeing and engagement services, ensuring gesh delivers on the People Promise, and other national and local commitments centring around supporting our people now and for the long-term. They will collaborate closely with our Communications function on our approach to staff recognition including our awards and long service events.

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.