Senior OE Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A foundation trust in the UK is seeking a Senior Organisational Effectiveness Practitioner to drive organisational development initiatives across various clinical and support services. The role involves delivering team-based OD interventions, supporting transformation efforts, and fostering a culture of inclusion. Candidates should have extensive experience in OD practices and a proven impact in complex organizational environments. Flexible work arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of delivering OD interventions at team, directorate and trust level.
• A proven track record of delivering sustainable team development interventions in complex environments.
• Experience working at a large scale in the organisation and into the wider health care system.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver organisational development plans.
• Support and advise on national and regional strategy and policy.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of OD strategies.
• Lead the development of the Organisational Effectiveness and Learning Team.
• Ensure the delivery of contextual employee engagement plans.
• Initiate and develop programmes of change for quality improvements.

Skills

Delivering OD interventions

Team development in complex environments

Fostering cultures of belonging and inclusion

Working with national and regional strategies

Job description

Overview

Thank you for considering Mersey Care to be your next employer. We are a Foundation Trust that is really going places. We are passionate about the care that we provide to all our patients, service users and their families. We strive to deliver Perfect Care across a range of disciplines including mental health, physical health community services and learning disabilities. Our workforce of over 12,000 professionals are committed, skilled and bring enthusiasm and innovation to their daily work.

You’ve heard the story about a stick of Blackpool Rock? You break it and the message runs all the way through. We are looking for a new member of our Organisational Effectiveness Team — someone who "gets" OD and knows the impact it has when done well across an organisation.

The post holder will act as a Senior Organisational Effectiveness Practitioner with a focus on delivering team based OD interventions across our wide range of Clinical and Trust Support services, as well as supporting large scale transformation.

Responsibilities

• To work with the Strategic OE Leads to develop and deliver organisational development plans and interventions to meet the organisational needs of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
• To support and advise on national and regional strategy and policy, and provide an interpretation in relation to Mersey Care priorities, recommending best practice initiatives and approaches that support the Trust’s organisational development.
• To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of organisational development strategies and initiatives ensuring their refinement to achieve continual improvement.
• To lead and support the development of the Organisational Effectiveness and Learning Team, ensuring their knowledge and skills are up to date and reflect best practice.
• To ensure the development and delivery of employee engagement plans that are contextual and ensure mitigation of significant associated risks for our divisions and the Trust.
• To lead staff engagement work and initiate and develop programmes of change which deliver quality improvements and efficiencies whilst supporting workforce development.

Qualifications / Experience

• Extensive experience of delivering OD interventions at team, directorate and trust level.
• A proven track record of delivering sustainable team development interventions in complex environments.
• A passion for OD that helps foster cultures of belonging and inclusion.
• Experience working at a large scale in the organisation and into the wider health care system, with demonstrable impact.

About Mersey Care

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Work Arrangements

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Closing

This advert closes on Sunday 7 Sep 2025