Organisational Development Manager

The post provides an internal consultancy service to Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (MWL) Trust. Contributing to the Trust's Organisational Development Operational Plan by improving overall organisational performance and effectiveness, in particular in relation to staff engagement, team working and other OD initiatives. This post is for a 6 month Fixed Term to support us through our change process. We welcome secondment opportunities.,

• Provide senior OD, internal communications and staff engagement management and support, contributing to related strategy development, and with responsibility for operational planning and delivery.
• Support the organisational focus on readiness for change in individuals, teams and the Trust, in response to the integration agenda as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan.
• Lead and co-facilitate other learning and development programmes managed by Learning and Organisational Development Team, jointly planning and delivering any agreed programmes.
• Develop and implement strategies and plans for specific programmes/projects, managing a number of different projects at the same time, ensuring they support the overall Trust objectives, which may require the post holder to travel between sites and to other locations as required.
• Independently manage medium risk consultancy projects e.g. service reviews, complex teamwork, ensuring that the work is delivered within agreed financial and human resources, meeting all governance requirements.
  
  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme