Organisational Development Consultant - AfC Band 8a

A fixed term/secondment opportunity has arisen to undertake the role of Organisational Development (OD) Consultant for a 12-month period, as part of the wider People and Culture Department. We welcome applications from credible and experienced people who have a strong track record in scoping, designing and delivering complex OD interventions and solutions and can make an immediate contribution to the Trust's OD work for our services., You will be experienced in leading our internal clients through the consultancy cycle: understanding and qualifying the needs of their teams, designing and delivering appropriate, impactful and creative solutions and undertaking evaluation that demonstrates a return on investment.
In this role, you will work collaboratively and build strong relationships with Directors, Managers and Staff across all ELFT directorates to ensure the OD service is integrated and supports the workforce needs of the directorates.
You will also be required to work closely and build strong working relationships with the wider corporate People and Culture Team to contribute to the ELFT People Plan.
The successful candidate will be positive, kind, confident and capable of delivering face-to-face solutions aswell as some digital interventions. You must be willing and available to travel on-site to facilitate face to face OD interventions across all Trust Wide sites including London, Luton and Bedfordshire., Scope, design and deliver OD interventions at individual, team, intra-team and organisational level. For example, team diagnostics, facilitating large group events, coaching senior leaders, designing and delivering leadership training, etc.
Lead and contribute to the personal and professional development of individuals and teams via targeted interventions using complex assessment, development and psychometric tools to support personal, team and organisational development. For example, Action learning sets, MBTI, Insights Discovery, coaching and mentoring, etc.
Work with the OD Team, Well-Being and Engagement Team, and People Business Partners to deliver projects, events and interventions commissioned and designed to increase staff engagement, wellbeing and inclusion across the Trust. For example, specific projects such as DMT Awaydays or focused activities such as listening events in response to the Trust's work on Race and Privilege.
Work collaboratively and build strong working relationships with the wider corporate People and Culture Team to contribute to the ELFT People Plan.
Work collaboratively and build strong relationships with Directors, Managers and Staff across all ELFT directorates to ensure the OD service is integrated and supports the workforce needs of the directorates.
Support on leadership development across the Trust, obtaining support where needed from the People Business Partners and understand leadership issues in order to deliver innovative leadership development solutions at individual, team and directorate level that support behaviour change and improve capability and capacity.
Deliver high impact HR and OD interventions and commission interventions where appropriate to meet business needs and support Quality Improvement (QI), this will include:
+ Undertaking diagnostics using a range of techniques
+ Feeding back results of diagnostic activities and involving stakeholders in analysing data
+ Designing interventions to address issues raised
+ Evaluating interventions.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

You must have a master's degree in OD or HR Management or occupational psychology or be able to demonstrate relevant qualifications or experience for this role. Ideally, you will be certified in psychometric testing and an accredited coach or be willing to undertake these accreditations if not.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.