Organisational Development (OD) Partner

We’re looking for an experienced and passionate Inclusion and Organisational Development (OD) Partner to join our Organisational Experience team, with a particular focus on anti-racism, inclusion and sustainable cultural change.

This is an exciting part-time opportunity to use your OD expertise, knowledge of the anti-racism, behavioural science and change methodologies to make a tangible difference to the experience of our people and the culture of our organisation.

Working alongside leaders, managers and teams across the Trust, you’ll design and deliver evidence-based interventions that strengthen inclusion, employee engagement, leadership capability and team performance. You’ll build trusted relationships, facilitate meaningful conversations and provide expert challenge and consultancy to support positive and lasting change.

We’re looking for someone with strong OD expertise and a genuine passion for anti-racism, inclusion and organisational culture. You’ll be confident facilitating complex conversations, influencing senior leaders and translating evidence and insight into practical action.

This is a part-time role (30 hours per week), based at our London House offices in Bracknell, with hybrid working available when you’re not working across Trust locations facilitating sessions. If you’re looking for a role where you can use your expertise to influence meaningful, sustainable change and improve the experience of our people, we’d love to hear from you.

• Independently manage a complex portfolio of OD, anti-racism, inclusion and change projects, ensuring activity aligns with strategic priorities.
• Design and deliver impactful, evidence-based OD interventions that support behavioural, cultural and organisational change.
• Partner with senior leaders and teams to diagnose complex organisational and cultural challenges, provide expert advice and constructively challenge where needed.
• Facilitate strategic conversations, workshops and team development sessions, including potentially challenging conversations around race, inclusion and culture.
• Provide coaching, advice and support to managers and leaders to strengthen inclusive leadership and people management.
• Work with staff networks and colleagues to translate lived experience and workforce insight into meaningful organisational and leadership development.
• Evaluate interventions using qualitative and quantitative data, providing insight and recommendations to demonstrate impact and inform strategic decision-making.
• Identify and respond to organisational and team risks, including those that may affect staff experience and the safety and quality of patient care.
• Build strong partnerships across the Trust and contribute to a culture where people feel valued, respected, included and able to thrive.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
Caring for and about you is our top priority

Committed to providing good quality, safe services

Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

Flexible working options to support work-life balance

27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles

Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality

Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave

Free parking across Trust sites

The “must haves” for this role:
Masters Degree or equivalent knowledge and experience

Training or teaching qualification or equivalent experience

Mentoring and/or coaching qualification, and or Psychometric testing e.g. Hogan Affina OD etc and or Mediation qualification or willingness to undertake

Experience of providing OD consultancy to senior leaders and management teams.

Experience of leading organisation-wide OD, culture change or transformation projects

Ability to travel to multiple sites and transport training materials

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Karla Inniss on 0118 904 6500 or email: [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.