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Leadership and Organisational Development Advisor
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust View all jobs
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Job summary
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.
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
29 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
438-PB4019-A
Job locations
Royal Preston Hospital
Sharoe Green Lane
Preston
PR2 9HT
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
This section sets out how the role operates in practice and the range of activities you will undertake to deliver highquality leadership and organisational development support across the Trust. It reflects the handson, deliveryfocused 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 nonaccredited leadership and management development programmes for clinical and nonclinical staff.
- Support the coordination and continuous improvement of the Trusts 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 onetoone 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 360degree 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This section sets out how the role operates in practice and the range of activities you will undertake to deliver highquality leadership and organisational development support across the Trust. It reflects the handson, deliveryfocused 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 nonaccredited leadership and management development programmes for clinical and nonclinical staff.
- Support the coordination and continuous improvement of the Trusts 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 onetoone 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 360degree 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
- 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
- Teaching qualification at Certificate of Education level or equivalent
- Psychometric test qualifications.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- 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
- Teaching qualification at Certificate of Education level or equivalent
- Psychometric test qualifications.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Preston Hospital
Sharoe Green Lane
Preston
PR2 9HT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Preston Hospital
Sharoe Green Lane
Preston
PR2 9HT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)