Job Description

This is a job share role for two days a week working alongside the current postholder. The focus of the role is to lead and support cultural change and improvement within Oxleas. As part of this job share you will take a strategic leadership role in the design, delivery, and implementation of key cultural initiatives, particularly around leadership and workplace culture.



You will be responsible for supporting the deliver of our Best Place to Work strategic priority areas integrating OD initiatives and best-practice improvements to address cultural and process aspects of change. The role will support the alignment of our People and Quality programmes.



You will be an excellent, compassionate leader who will be passionate about ensuring that our Oxleas values can be felt throughout the organisation. You will work with us to ensure staff members feel a strong sense of belonging as part of Oxleas. We are proud to have been awarded HSJ Trust of the Year 2025. We are continuously striving for improvement and we want every member of staff to feel that Oxleas is the best place to work. You will have a key role in helping us to achieving this ambition.



Candidates who are applying for a secondment opportunity must gain the permission of their current line-manager prior to submitting their application form.



You will lead the development and delivery of leadership and team culture programmes that support our strategic priorities of being a 'Best Place to Work' and delivering 'Great Care'. Working closely with the Head of Culture and Strategic Programmes and the Head of Equalities and Human Rights, you will build and manage a team focused on designing and implementing culturally inclusive leadership and team culture initiatives.



You will oversee the planning, creation, and execution of key leadership and culture programmes, ensuring they align with our organisational goals and values. In addition, you will lead the facilitation of priority leadership and team development programmes, working in collaboration with colleagues across the wider team.



A key part of your role will involve working alongside the Quality Management Team to ensure a strong culture of quality and continuous improvement is embedded in all aspects of our work. This will contribute directly to our commitment to delivering against the NHS Impact domains.



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:



We're Kind



We're Fair



We Listen



We Care



Do you have a passion for organisational development and continuous improvement? Do you have experience of strategy development, informed by staff and service user feedback and best practice? Do you have demonstrable experience of leading and implementing large-scale cultural change across complex working environments?



If you can bring us, through your personal life experience or professional skills, insights that will enhance our ability to make a significant difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff members and the treatment of our service users, we would love to hear from you.



We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We welcome applications from all people, including those from a global majority background, those who live with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.



Please refer to the and Person Specification for the main responsibilities of this role.



If you would like an informal conversation about the role, please contact Kim Gilbey, Associate Director of People or Rachel Townsend, Assistant Director of Strategy, OD & Improvement via email kim.gilbey@nhs.net or rachel.townsend2@nhs.net



Interviews will be held on either 27th August or 1 September 2025.