Organisational Development Consultant

This role offers the opportunity to influence the future of healthcare by creating a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture. You will be a visible leader, working closely with colleagues at all levels to foster meaningful change and contribute to a thriving workplace.
If you are an experienced OD professional with a passion for leadership development, cultural transformation, and strategic influence, we encourage you to apply and be a part of our journey towards excellence., + Leadership Development: Co-design, deliver, and facilitate leadership programmes for individuals and teams. Focus areas include culture change, leadership capacity-building, and team effectiveness.
+ Strategic Partnership: Work closely with senior leaders to implement leadership development initiatives using formal and informal methodologies.
+ Cultural Change Programmes: Lead and contribute to Trust-wide programmes that drive performance improvements and cultural transformation, ensuring alignment with NHS healthcare plans.
+ Advocate of Change: Champion best practices, compassionate leadership, and a positive work environment, helping teams thrive and deliver exceptional healthcare services.
+ Collaborative Relationships: Build strong relationships across divisions and corporate areas, providing expert advice on strategic OD matters to support people strategies and service delivery.
Flexible working:
We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday within the time frames from 9.00am to 5.00pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance, In addition to the main duties outline for the role, some of the key responsibilities include:
1. Coach and develop senior leaders and managers to enable and support SWLSTGs leadership development approach, utilising the NHS Leadership Framework, Scope for Growth model and the Leadership way.
2. Work alongside the Assistant Director of OD, Culture & Inclusion, People Business Partners and
3. Divisional leadership teams in identifying areas requiring OD interventions and developing
4. appropriate data driven, business focussed, action plans to improve culture, performance and
5. team effectiveness.
6. Work in partnership with People Business Partner team colleagues and the wider internal and external people teams to ensure the services provided meet the needs of those commissioning our service; utilising the expertise of the specialist teams.
7. To take a lead role in Organisational Development / Design, working with the divisional leadership teams / triumvirates, for monitoring, reporting, analysing and improving people performance against agreed Trust people performance metrics and where relevant, external contract performance parameters relating to people.
8. Provide coaching, advice and guidance on very complex, sensitive and contentious people issues to support our leaders to improve culture, behaviours, team performance, wellbeing and ensure positive employee experience and safe patient care.
9. Develop, recommend and support the implementation of appropriate OD interventions ensuring a consistent and credible approach is taken utilising our OD diagnostics and comprehensive toolkit of OD solutions.
10. Track progress, themes and review the impact and value of our OD activity/interventions, ensuring baseline metrics are captured through the diagnostics and contracting phases of the OD cycle and continue to ensure OD is outcome focused and demonstrates return on effort.
A full set of the responsibilities can be viewed in the job description and person specification
At South West London St Georges Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Committed Employer, and welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We are Members of Stonewall Diversity Champions and Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion.
As part of the Trust's commitment to Equalities and Diversity, the Trust supports the establishment of Staff Networks groups to promote diversity in the workplace:
+ BME (Evolve) Staff Network
+ Christian Staff Network
+ DiverseAbility
+ Deaf Staff Network
+ Mental Health Staff Forum
+ Women's Staff Network
+ LGBTQIA+
We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and has signed the Armed Forces Covenant.
We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.
Please note:
+ That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received
+ That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3^rd party e-recruitment system
+ That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
+ That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
+ That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
+ That your employment is offered subject to successful completion of a Probationary Period depending on your Band (except medical roles)
+ That we are a smoke-free Trust

Are you passionate about driving positive cultural change and enhancing leadership within an organisation? We have an exciting role for an Organisational Development (OD) Consultant, a senior position within the People Team and a key member of the Trust's OD Hub.

NHS AfC: Band 8b
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' however we aim to be 'outstanding'.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you'll be part of something special - an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working., As an OD Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Trust by delivering high-quality organisational design and development interventions. Your work will focus on fostering a high-performing organisation with a diverse and inclusive culture, aligned with the Trust's values and vision., We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive. Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are now opening.