Employer South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Nexus House
Town: Crawley
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant
NHS AfC: Band 7
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and aim to continually improve across all areas of the Trust. Our 4,000+ workforce provides services to 4.9 million people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. Job overview
Are you passionate about shaping organisational culture, driving change, and empowering leaders to reach their potential? We’re looking for a dynamic
Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant
to join our forward-thinking Inclusion, Learning & OD Team at SECAmb for a 12-month fixed-term opportunity. In this role, you’ll act as an internal consultant, designing and delivering impactful OD interventions that align with our strategic goals. Working collaboratively with leaders and colleagues across the organisation, you’ll advise on, lead, and support activities that enhance employee experience, strengthen organisational effectiveness, and foster an inclusive workplace. You’ll need exceptional expertise in organisational development practices, leadership coaching, and facilitation, paired with a flair for influencing and inspiring change. Creativity, initiative, and the ability to build strong relationships will be key to succeeding in this role. Main duties of the job
As an Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant, you will deliver initiatives that strengthen leadership, improve team effectiveness, and foster a collaborative, values-driven workplace. Partnering with leaders and teams, you will design and deliver Organisation Development (OD) interventions aligned with our strategic objectives to achieve measurable impact. What You’ll Be Doing: Act as a consultant, partnering with leaders to identify challenges and collaboratively design evidence-based OD interventions that drive sustainable change. Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and team sessions to inspire collaboration and embed our organisational values. Conduct diagnostics to identify barriers to cultural change and develop practical solutions. Use data and feedback to evaluate interventions, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational goals. What We’re Looking For: Strong consultation skills to build trusted relationships, challenge constructively, and influence stakeholders. Exceptional facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and manage group dynamics. Analytical abilities to design and evaluate OD interventions using data-driven insights. A collaborative and inclusive approach to foster trust and promote belonging. Person specification
Qualifications
Post Graduate professional qualification or equivalent level of experience. Degree or equivalent level of experience in a leadership, management, or team development, in a highly specialist OD related discipline/subject. Coaching & Mentoring Qualification or equivalent experience. Qualified or equivalent experience in project management processes. Specific Practitioner Accreditation e.g. MBTI, Insights Discovery, Hogan, HLM 360 Feedback. CIPD Chartered Member. Knowledge
Thorough understanding of organisational culture principles, values, and dynamics. Good awareness of diversity and inclusion principles. Knowledge and prior use of the OD Consulting Cycle. Deep understanding of OD and management and leadership theories. Experience
Experience of providing an internal OD consultancy service within an organisation. Experience designing, facilitating and delivering engaging and interactive workshops. Proficiency in collecting feedback and evaluating workshop and intervention effectiveness. Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating a broad range of complex OD interventions. Evidence of successful development and implementation of cultural change. Skills
Exceptional facilitation, communication, and presentation skills. Ability to design and deliver relevant and effective OD interventions. Effective organisational and time management skills. Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and motivate colleagues. Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated. The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief.
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NHS AfC: Band 7
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and aim to continually improve across all areas of the Trust. Our 4,000+ workforce provides services to 4.9 million people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. Job overview
Are you passionate about shaping organisational culture, driving change, and empowering leaders to reach their potential? We’re looking for a dynamic
Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant
to join our forward-thinking Inclusion, Learning & OD Team at SECAmb for a 12-month fixed-term opportunity. In this role, you’ll act as an internal consultant, designing and delivering impactful OD interventions that align with our strategic goals. Working collaboratively with leaders and colleagues across the organisation, you’ll advise on, lead, and support activities that enhance employee experience, strengthen organisational effectiveness, and foster an inclusive workplace. You’ll need exceptional expertise in organisational development practices, leadership coaching, and facilitation, paired with a flair for influencing and inspiring change. Creativity, initiative, and the ability to build strong relationships will be key to succeeding in this role. Main duties of the job
As an Organisation Development and Leadership Consultant, you will deliver initiatives that strengthen leadership, improve team effectiveness, and foster a collaborative, values-driven workplace. Partnering with leaders and teams, you will design and deliver Organisation Development (OD) interventions aligned with our strategic objectives to achieve measurable impact. What You’ll Be Doing: Act as a consultant, partnering with leaders to identify challenges and collaboratively design evidence-based OD interventions that drive sustainable change. Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and team sessions to inspire collaboration and embed our organisational values. Conduct diagnostics to identify barriers to cultural change and develop practical solutions. Use data and feedback to evaluate interventions, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational goals. What We’re Looking For: Strong consultation skills to build trusted relationships, challenge constructively, and influence stakeholders. Exceptional facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and manage group dynamics. Analytical abilities to design and evaluate OD interventions using data-driven insights. A collaborative and inclusive approach to foster trust and promote belonging. Person specification
Qualifications
Post Graduate professional qualification or equivalent level of experience. Degree or equivalent level of experience in a leadership, management, or team development, in a highly specialist OD related discipline/subject. Coaching & Mentoring Qualification or equivalent experience. Qualified or equivalent experience in project management processes. Specific Practitioner Accreditation e.g. MBTI, Insights Discovery, Hogan, HLM 360 Feedback. CIPD Chartered Member. Knowledge
Thorough understanding of organisational culture principles, values, and dynamics. Good awareness of diversity and inclusion principles. Knowledge and prior use of the OD Consulting Cycle. Deep understanding of OD and management and leadership theories. Experience
Experience of providing an internal OD consultancy service within an organisation. Experience designing, facilitating and delivering engaging and interactive workshops. Proficiency in collecting feedback and evaluating workshop and intervention effectiveness. Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating a broad range of complex OD interventions. Evidence of successful development and implementation of cultural change. Skills
Exceptional facilitation, communication, and presentation skills. Ability to design and deliver relevant and effective OD interventions. Effective organisational and time management skills. Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and motivate colleagues. Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated. The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief.
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