Leadership and Learning Development Manager | London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London seeks an Organizational Development Lead to analyze and develop learning strategies. Responsibilities include managing training initiatives, implementing workforce development programs, and supporting culture change across the organization. Candidates should have a background in organizational development and project management. This role contributes significantly to achieving the Trust’s strategic objectives and improving employee engagement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in organizational development or HR.
• Strong understanding of training and apprenticeship programs.
• Ability to develop metrics for program effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of a learning and development plan.
• Manage the training centre and related budgets.
• Support transformational programs for workforce inclusivity.

Skills

Leadership skills

Analytical skills

Project management

Training and development

Education

Relevant undergraduate degree

Job description

Overview

We have recently reviewed our Organisational Development and Learning Service and this is a newly created post. The post holder will lead on analysing the learning, leadership, and workforce development needs for the Trust. They will facilitate the design, development and implementation of a learning and development plan and programme of activities, events and initiatives to support the priority learning and organisational development needs and enable the achievement of the Trusts’ People plan, service, divisional and corporate objectives.

They will support culture change and organisation transformation through a learning and development programme, apprenticeship strategy and talent development initiatives to meet workforce development needs and succession plans. Supporting the Head of OD, Learning and Leadership with the design and development of the leadership development programmes and management and leadership initiatives and events.

They will develop KPIs and metrics to measure the effectiveness of the programmes and review and evaluate the OD, learning and leadership development offer to assess the impact against the Trust’s people plan and divisional and Way Forward strategy outcomes, while focussing on its staff and patients and related work streams.

They will manage the training centre, the training Admin post holders and delegated budgets. The post holder will have oversight of the Corporate learning and development offer and support reporting analysis and implementation of the OD, learning and leadership development programme and benchmarking/improvement frameworks.

They will work across the Trust and APC on the analysis of workforce development needs and the delivery of an inclusive training, learning and development offer to meet the workforce development needs. They will support the Head of OD, Learning and Leadership to develop and deliver transformational programmes and projects for the creation of a more inclusive workforce in line with the Trust and ICS’s priorities and APC service improvement for the North West London workforce.

They will be required to work across the Trust to implement a positive learning culture to address staffing and recruitment challenges including role redesign, recruitment and retention, all training including EDI and bullying and harassment. They will deliver major leadership and management initiatives working with the OD Partners and external OD experts, staff and patient focus groups, Board members and external and internal stakeholder groups that have been set up for this purpose.

They will manage the training centre, the training Admin Officers and Apprenticeship Programme Manager and delegated budgets.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025