Job summary
We are looking for two Strategic OD Transformation Leads to play a pivotal role in shaping culture, behaviour, and ways of working across Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. As part of our People & Strategy Directorate, you will lead the organisational development and cultural transformation that underpins the Trust's Zero Delays programme and wider transformation priorities.
This role will work closely with senior leaders, clinical teams, improvement specialists, and service areas to create the conditions for high-performing, learning-orientated teams. You will help translate data and performance insights into meaningful cultural change, enabling staff to work differently and deliver timely, person-centred care.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced OD professional to make a significant, long-lasting impact on how services operate and how teams work together to improve patient experience.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
Main duties of the job
The Strategic OD Transformation Lead plays a central role in driving cultural, behavioural, and organisational development across Oxleas, with a particular focus on supporting the Zero Delays programme and wider transformation priorities. The role exists to create the conditions that enable teams to work differently, improve productivity, reduce delays, and deliver timely, person-centred care.
You will work closely with senior leaders, clinical teams, operational services, quality improvement specialists, and digital colleagues to translate data and performance insights into meaningful cultural and behavioural change. This includes supporting teams to build psychological safety, shift away from blame, adopt new ways of working, and take collective ownership for improvement.
The role combines strategic OD expertise, hands-on team engagement, and leadership influence. You'll facilitate cultural diagnostics, deliver high-impact interventions, coach leaders, support "knotty" teams experiencing cultural barriers, and help embed sustainable transformation. You'll also contribute to programme governance through clear communication, insightful reporting, and active partnership working across the organisation.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead cultural, behavioural, and organisational development interventions that support delivery of the Zero Delays programme and wider transformation initiatives.
- Diagnose cultural and leadership factors influencing productivity, waiting times, and service performance.
- Work with leaders and teams to build readiness for change, psychological safety, and collective accountability.
- Translate data and diagnostics into practical behavioural change and teamlevel improvement actions.
- Provide facilitation, coaching, and challenge to senior leaders, operational managers, and multidisciplinary teams.Build strong relationships across OD, performance, transformation, QI, digital, and operational functions to align culture and improvement work.
- Support teams with structured engagement, including deeper interventions for knotty teams facing cultural or leadership barriers.
- Develop clear communication, reporting, and governance processes to support transformation delivery.
- Help embed new ways of working to ensure improvements are sustained beyond the programme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead cultural, behavioural, and organisational development interventions that support delivery of the Zero Delays programme and wider transformation initiatives.
- Diagnose cultural and leadership factors influencing productivity, waiting times, and service performance.
- Work with leaders and teams to build readiness for change, psychological safety, and collective accountability.
- Translate data and diagnostics into practical behavioural change and teamlevel improvement actions.
- Provide facilitation, coaching, and challenge to senior leaders, operational managers, and multidisciplinary teams.Build strong relationships across OD, performance, transformation, QI, digital, and operational functions to align culture and improvement work.
- Support teams with structured engagement, including deeper interventions for knotty teams facing cultural or leadership barriers.
- Develop clear communication, reporting, and governance processes to support transformation delivery.
- Help embed new ways of working to ensure improvements are sustained beyond the programme.
Person Specification
Alignment of values
Essential
- Evidence of understanding the strategy
- Evidence of alignment with organisational values & motivation
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of OD related qualifications such as psychometrics
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a senior OD role within a complex health or social care environment.
- Experience of working on large transformation programmes
Desirable
- Experience of analysing complex data with multiple components of information in both qualitative and quantitative formats
Person Specification
Alignment of values
Essential
- Evidence of understanding the strategy
- Evidence of alignment with organisational values & motivation
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of OD related qualifications such as psychometrics
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a senior OD role within a complex health or social care environment.
- Experience of working on large transformation programmes
Desirable
- Experience of analysing complex data with multiple components of information in both qualitative and quantitative formats
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
