At London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, our People Strategy 2025–2030 puts people at the heart of everything we do. This role is key to delivering our ambition of developing and growing our own talent, creating a learning culture that enables staff to thrive and deliver excellent patient care.
You will lead the identification of learning, leadership and workforce development priorities across the Trust, designing and implementing programmes that support individual development, organisational performance and workforce sustainability. Working with Organisational Development colleagues, you will support culture change, transformation, succession planning, talent development and apprenticeship initiatives.
You will develop and monitor KPIs to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of learning, leadership and development activities, ensuring alignment with Trust priorities. As part of the North West London Acute Provider Group, you will work collaboratively with system partners to promote a consistent approach to learning and leadership development.
The role has responsibility for managing the Training Centre, Training Team, Apprenticeship Lead and delegated budgets. The successful candidate will bring significant experience of leading organisational development, learning and leadership programmes, undertaking workforce analysis and learning needs assessments, and building effective relationships across organisations to drive improvement and workforce development.
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.
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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.
