Band 8b Strategic People Change Partner - Bath

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Clays End; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a senior People Change Partner to shape strategic workforce solutions, lead complex change programmes and collaborate with Executive Directors to deliver high-quality, sustainable services.

This role focuses on organisational development, employee relations, change management and workforce planning, with a commitment to inclusive cultures and staff wellbeing, ensuring NHS policies and best practices are embedded across

Qualifications

• Provide strategic workforce and organisational development advice to Directors and senior leaders on transformation.
• Lead the people aspects of complex organisational change, including restructures and operating model redesign.
• Develop workforce plans and people strategies to support sustainable, high-performing services.
• Build strong relationships with programme leads, operational managers, trade unions and staff representatives.
• Lead on complex employee relations matters arising from transformation activity, ensuring compliance with NHS policy and best practice.
• Undertake change impact assessments, workforce risk analysis and consultation planning to support effective decision-making.
• Use workforce data, people analytics and organisational insight to inform transformation plans and evaluate outcomes.
• Support leaders to create inclusive, compassionate and change-capable cultures that promote staff wellbeing, engagement and retention.
• Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are embedded throughout organisational change processes.
• Provide expert coaching, challenge and support to senior leaders to enable effective leadership of transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic workforce and OD guidance to Directors on transformation and redesign.
• Lead people aspects of complex change, including restructures and operating model redesign.
• Develop and implement workforce plans and design solutions.
• Foster relationships with programme leads, managers, unions and staff reps.
• Manage employee relations matters arising from transformation in line with NHS policy.
• Conduct change impact assessments and risk analysis to support decisions.
• Analyse workforce data to inform transformation plans and measure outcomes.
• Support leaders to cultivate inclusive, compassionate, change-ready cultures.
• Embed equality, diversity and inclusion in change processes.
• Provide coaching to senior leaders for effective change leadership.

Skills

Organisational development

Change management

Employee relations

Workforce planning

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching/mentoring

Job description

Job overview

Are you passionate about leading meaningful workforce change that creates sustainable, high quality mental health services to meet the changing needs of our patients, communities and workforce?

We are seeking an exceptional People Change Partner to play a key role in transforming services across the Trust. Working closely with Executive Directors, senior clinical leaders and programme teams, you will help shape strategic workforce solutions that support high-quality, sustainable services and our ambition to be a great place to work.

As a senior people professional, you will lead the workforce aspects of complex transformation programmes, providing expert advice on organisational development, employee relations and change management. You will support service redesign, workforce planning and organisational change, ensuring transformation is delivered effectively and with a positive experience for our people.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence change at scale, make a lasting impact across the Trust, and help build a workforce that is fit for the future while delivering the best possible outcomes for our communities.

Main duties of the job

• Provide strategic workforce and organisational development advice to Directors and senior leaders on transformation, service redesign and workforce change programmes.
• Lead the people aspects of complex organisational change, including restructures, consultation exercises, workforce redesign and implementation of new operating models.
• Develop workforce plans, organisation design solutions and people strategies that support sustainable, high-performing services.
• Build strong relationships with programme leads, operational managers, trade unions and staff representatives to facilitate successful change delivery.
• Lead on complex employee relations matters arising from transformation activity, ensuring compliance with employment legislation, NHS policy and best practice.
• Undertake change impact assessments, workforce risk analysis and consultation planning to support effective decision-making.
• Use workforce data, people analytics and organisational insight to inform transformation plans and evaluate outcomes.
• Support leaders to create inclusive, compassionate and change-capable cultures that promote staff wellbeing, engagement and retention.
• Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are embedded throughout organisational change processes.
• Provide expert coaching, challenge and support to senior leaders to enable effective leadership of transformation programmes.