About this role
Job summary
The NHS Transforming People Services (TPS) programme sits at the heart of delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan -- creating a workforce that is empowered, flexible and digitally enabled to meet the evolving needs of patients and communities.
This is more than a transformation role, it is an opportunity to redefine how people services are delivered across the NHS and directly influence the experience of one of the largest workforces in the world.
The Senior OD Transformation Lead will play a key leadership role in delivering the Organisational Development (OD) transformation agenda. The postholder will lead the regional implementation of future People services and transformation initiatives, ensuring national designs are successfully adopted and embedded across the NHS.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with national, regional and local stakeholders, the role will be responsible for supporting organisations to build capability, strengthen leadership, enhance culture and deliver sustainable workforce transformation across organisational boundaries. The postholder will act as a critical link between national programme design and local delivery, ensuring regions are equipped, engaged and supported to realise the benefits of transformation and create high-performing, inclusive organisations.
Lead the large-scale OD, workforce transformation and culture change across the South West.
Use highly honed stakeholder engagement skills, to influence senior leaders and build commitment to change.
Understand the complexity of the region(s) you support, help them navigate the change, ensuring successful adoption of national designs and service models.
Monitor progress, benefits and outcomes, ensuring transformation activity delivers measurable improvements in workforce capability, staff experience and organisational performance.
Most importantly, you will be part of a team delivering change that improves the experience of the NHS workforce and supporting better outcomes for patients and communities nationwide.
About us
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Job description Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Support NHS organisations to deliver workforce transformation, organisational development and culture change programmes.
Develop and maintain standardised blueprints, case studies and shared learning resources to support consistent adoption of the new operating model and alignment with national standards.
Build strong relationships with regional and local leaders to drive engagement, collaboration and delivery.
Facilitate the implementation of the national TPS programme across the South West.
We are looking for ambitious, collaborative and delivery-focused individuals who thrive in complexity and are passionate about improving public services.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. CIPD Level 7, Fellow or equivalent qualification in HR & OD.
Knowledge Essential
Significant experience of HR and OD and People Services within the complex NHS or public sector. Extensive knowledge and experience of working on workforce transformational programmes. Proven experience leading large-scale OD, workforce transformation or culture change programmes across complex NHS or public sector organisations. Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and build commitment to change across regions and organisations. Strong delivery focus, turning strategic ambition into practical action and enabling organisations to successfully adopt and embed new ways of working. Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to:- Workforce Policy Development; People Services Service Design; Workforce Transformation; Organisational Development; Stakeholder Engagement.
Experience Essential
Significant experience of leading transformational change to generate successful outcomes. Experience in developing and maintaining standardised blueprints, case studies and shared learning resources.
Employer details Employer name NHS England
Address This role can be based in London or Leeds, (other sites will be considered)
London or Leeds
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)