Job summary
Expected Shortlisting
Date:
10/03/2025
Planned Interview
Date:
27/03/2025
The
following Role Profile aims to provide specificity in the day-to-day roles
and responsibilities, and the required skills, for the role, on top of the
more generalised Job Description.
From
the moment you join us, youll be at the forefront of enabling cultural
change and improvement to support our peoples experience and engagement,
helping everyone to stay and thrive at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. This role offers an opportunity to take a
leading role in shaping our staff engagement, experience, retention and
speaking up strategies, with a strong focus on involving and empowering our
colleagues at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, using the voice of our people to
inform continual improvement, which in turn creates huge variety in the work
you will lead on.
You will be supported along the way by the Engagement, Inclusion, and Equality Lead,
as well as colleagues across the wider Organisational Development and Culture
team, part of Human Resources. You will have the flexibility to work remotely
as well as on site, with some flexibility in when you work, flexing based on
the needs of the role or task at hand.
Main duties of the job
Key
parts of this role are:
Contribute
towards, and execute the Trusts staff engagement strategy, driving
improvement at all levels of the organisation.
Engaging
and influencing stakeholders at various levels, using a range of techniques,
to support the implementation of staff engagement best practice.
Working
in collaboration with, and influencing, senior leaders, to inform local
workforce strategies that engenders strong staff engagement.
Able
to support and drive governance structures, positively leading, shaping and
contributing to committees and associated papers, to influence change.
Working
with and guiding teams and specialties who want to achieve a positive shift
in the engagement of their people, to positively impact staff retention.
Ensuring
all our people have a voice that is heard and are involved in improvement and
change; engaging and influencing stakeholders to ensure good practice across
teams regarding the effective use of employee voice results.
Working
in partnership with our external survey providers to ensure successful
partnerships.
Ensure
celebration and recognition of our long serving employees, working in
partnership with our Communications team, to lead the delivery and continue
to improve our Long Service Awards.
Analyse,
diagnose, align, and lead the delivery of a variety of organisation wide
improvement activities and projects, in line with our organisations priority
objectives and cultural ambition.
About us
Our
Organisational Development and Culture Centre of Excellence brings together a
range of specialisms that deliver a joined-up service across the whole
organisation from corporate induction, appraisals, training solutions,
inclusion and positive action, apprenticeships and employability, leadership
and personal development, coaching, OD consultancy, and employee voice and
engagement.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'
members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts
are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove
adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the
shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this
process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any
questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To
work as part of the Organisational Development and Culture Centre of
Excellence, a function of HR to take a leading role in shaping our staff
engagement, experience, retention and speaking up strategies, working with
stakeholders and external partners.
To
excel within in this role, you will possess the following skills and
experience:
Experience in shaping and
implementing retention and staff engagement strategies
Staff engagement theory and methodology, and knowledge of NHS Staff Survey
Experience of the NHS Staff Survey
or similar
Leadership experience, with the
ability to lead without authority
Programme Management skills and
experience
Stakeholder engagement and
influencing skills and experience, at all levels
Understanding of staff engagement
research, models and methodology
Experience of contributing towards
governance structures, including paper writing
Ability to work on your own
initiative
Ability to take a solution-oriented
perspective
Experience of relationship
management with external partners
Experience in leading and
implementing improvement projects using evidenced based practices
Ability in the analysis of data to
inform change
Experience in motivating team
members and coordinating resources and stakeholders in order to achieve
project outcomes
Experience with working with senior
leadership teams to create and implement change
Strong communication skills
Ability to plan, allocate, review
and evaluate the work of others
Ability and experience of adapting
and reacting within changing and fast paced environments.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To
work as part of the Organisational Development and Culture Centre of
Excellence, a function of HR to take a leading role in shaping our staff
engagement, experience, retention and speaking up strategies, working with
stakeholders and external partners.
To
excel within in this role, you will possess the following skills and
experience:
Experience in shaping and
implementing retention and staff engagement strategies
Staff engagement theory and methodology, and knowledge of NHS Staff Survey
Experience of the NHS Staff Survey
or similar
Leadership experience, with the
ability to lead without authority
Programme Management skills and
experience
Stakeholder engagement and
influencing skills and experience, at all levels
Understanding of staff engagement
research, models and methodology
Experience of contributing towards
governance structures, including paper writing
Ability to work on your own
initiative
Ability to take a solution-oriented
perspective
Experience of relationship
management with external partners
Experience in leading and
implementing improvement projects using evidenced based practices
Ability in the analysis of data to
inform change
Experience in motivating team
members and coordinating resources and stakeholders in order to achieve
project outcomes
Experience with working with senior
leadership teams to create and implement change
Strong communication skills
Ability to plan, allocate, review
and evaluate the work of others
Ability and experience of adapting
and reacting within changing and fast paced environments.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- CIPD Level 7 Qualification
Desirable
- CIPD Chartered Membership
Experience
Essential
- Experience in shaping and implementing retention and staff engagement strategies
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing skills and experience, at all levels
- Experience of contributing towards governance structures, including paper writing
- Experience of relationship management with external partners
- Experience with working with senior leadership teams to create and implement change
- Experience in service Improvement techniques, Project Management (PRINCE2) or any equivalent
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Leadership experience, with the ability to lead without authority
- Ability in the analysis of data to inform change
- Ability to take a solution-oriented perspective
- Ability to plan, allocate, review and evaluate the work of others
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- CIPD Level 7 Qualification
Desirable
- CIPD Chartered Membership
Experience
Essential
- Experience in shaping and implementing retention and staff engagement strategies
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing skills and experience, at all levels
- Experience of contributing towards governance structures, including paper writing
- Experience of relationship management with external partners
- Experience with working with senior leadership teams to create and implement change
- Experience in service Improvement techniques, Project Management (PRINCE2) or any equivalent
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Leadership experience, with the ability to lead without authority
- Ability in the analysis of data to inform change
- Ability to take a solution-oriented perspective
- Ability to plan, allocate, review and evaluate the work of others
