Leadership And Organisational Development Advisor

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals; Rishton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals seeks an experienced Leadership and Organisational Development Advisor to design and deliver leadership and management development programmes, provide coaching and mentoring, and support bespoke team development across the Trust.

Working with leaders, managers and services, you will enable leadership capability, strengthen team effectiveness and embed positive behavioural change aligned with Trust values and strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject with professional development.
• Structured professional and career development evidence.
• Management qualification at diploma level or equivalent.
• Coaching qualification or substantial senior coaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver accredited and non-accredited leadership programmes for staff.
• Coordinate and improve the Trust's leadership development offer with materials and evaluation.
• Provide OD consultancy to teams, diagnosing issues and designing interventions.
• Facilitate bespoke team development and engagement sessions.
• Deliver coaching to leaders and managers, individually and in groups.
• Support talent management and succession planning initiatives.
• Deliver 360-degree feedback, appraisals, and translate insights into action.

Skills

Leadership development

Coaching

OD consultancy

Programme design

Education

Degree level in relevant subject

Management qualification (diploma or equivalent)

Job description

Job overview

The Leadership and Organisational Development Advisor plays an important role in supporting the Trust’s leadership and organisational development priorities. Working closely with leaders, managers and teams, the role helps to build leadership capability, strengthen team effectiveness and contribute to a positive, inclusive organisational culture.

As an experienced Leadership & OD Advisor, the post holder designs and delivers leadership and management development programmes, provides coaching and mentoring, and supports bespoke team and service‑level development interventions. The role combines practical delivery with internal consultancy, ensuring leadership and OD activity is relevant, high quality and aligned to organisational priorities.

Through skilled facilitation, insight and evidence‑based approaches, the post holder supports leaders and teams to develop confidence, improve ways of working and embed positive behavioural change. The role makes a direct contribution to improving staff experience, leadership effectiveness and organisational performance in line with Trust values and strategic objectives.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you’ll help our leaders and teams be their best, designing and delivering practical development that makes a real difference on the ground. You’ll partner closely with services to build capability, strengthen teamworking and support positive culture change, all in line with our Trust values and priorities. Your main duties will include:

• Deliver leadership and management development activity that builds leadership capability and management effectiveness across the Trust.
• Provide practical organisational development support to services and teams to improve team effectiveness, culture, staff engagement and ways of working.
• Enable leadership and behavioural development through coaching, mentoring and facilitated development activity.
• Support talent management, career development and succession planning activity to aid progression, retention and future leadership capability.
• Contribute to Trust‑wide organisational development and workforce priorities, including leadership framework alignment, culture change and organisational effectiveness.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of leadership and OD interventions to support continuous improvement and demonstrate value.

Working for our organisation

The Workforce and Organisational Development (OD) department are a niche group consisting of HR professionals, data analysts, librarians, e learning technologists, multimedia developers, medical artists, occupational psychologists, qualified teachers, Diversity & Inclusion experts and staff engagement leads. We pride ourselves on our holistic approach and how we come together to innovate, to problem solve and to make a difference to the working lives of our colleagues who in turn provide excellent care with compassion for our patients.

As a team we have high standards of customer service; we are about to reset our Our People strategy which is focused on making Lancashire Teaching Hospitals the best place to work in the whole of the NHS. We have made great progress and we continue to roll out new streams of work, as well as transforming our existing offer. We take our Leadership offer very seriously, and we have received national acknowledgement for our work.

Leadership and Organisational Development Advisor role will require creative thinking, lots of engagement with colleagues from all corners of our organisation, focusing on improving their leadership and management opportunities and we need you to show us how you have a solid foundation in leadership development and in supporting the delivery of OD interventions designed to support leaders and managers which have been able to bring about lasting, measurable improvements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This section sets out how the role operates in practice and the range of activities you will undertake to deliver high‑quality leadership and organisational development support across the Trust. It reflects the hands‑on, delivery‑focused nature of the role and the breadth of work involved in supporting leaders, teams and services. Key responsibilities include:

• Design, deliver and facilitate a range of accredited and non‑accredited leadership and management development programmes for clinical and non‑clinical staff.
• Support the coordination and continuous improvement of the Trust’s leadership development offer, including development of materials, session content, evaluation and quality assurance.
• Provide organisational development consultancy support to teams and services, including scoping requirements, diagnosing issues and designing appropriate interventions.
• Facilitate bespoke team development and engagement sessions to address leadership behaviours, team dynamics, culture, performance and staff engagement.
• Deliver one‑to‑one and group coaching and mentoring to leaders and managers, including coaching delivered as part of leadership and talent programmes.
• Support delivery of talent management and succession planning interventions, including workshops, career development activity, insight tools and career coaching.
• Deliver and facilitate 360‑degree feedback, appraisal support and diagnostic tools, providing constructive feedback and supporting translation into development action.
• Contribute to the delivery of OD and workforce projects aligned to organisational priorities, including culture change initiatives and leadership framework alignment.
• Evaluate leadership and OD interventions using qualitative and quantitative feedback, producing insight to inform improvement and future delivery.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant subject area or demonstrable experience working in the professional field.
• Evidence of structured professional and career development.
• Management qualification at diploma level or equivalent experience.
• Coaching qualification or substantial experience of coaching range of senior staff for multidisciplinary roles.

Desirable criteria

• Teaching qualification at Certificate of Education level or equivalent
• Psychometric test qualifications.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of how to conduct training needs analysis and evaluations.
• Experience of operational or strategic management.
• Proven experience of designing and delivering a range of leadership development interventions
• Experience of managing projects
• Experience of developing organisational development initiatives.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of team development techniques.
• Business consultancy experience including scoping out issues, putting together proposals and designing tailored solutions.
• Knowledge of non-traditional development methods e.g. action learning, development centres, blended learning.