We're looking for an experienced Regional Learning Business Partner with practical OD expertise to strengthen leadership, organisational culture and workforce capability across our services. This is a newly created role with a genuine opportunity to make your mark. You won't simply inherit established programmes or deliver off-the-shelf training.
Main duties of the job
What you'll be doing:
- Partnering with services: provide OD consultancy and constructive challenge to Heads of Service and managers, diagnosing organisational needs and agreeing regional OD and learning priorities.
- Identifying development needs: use organisational diagnostics, training needs analysis, workforce data and colleague feedback to identify root causes and prioritise action.
- Developing frameworks and learning: help design and implement capability and competency frameworks, programmes and resources that support colleagues to perform effectively in their roles.
- Strengthening leadership and management: build on our existing offer through programme development, workshops, practical coaching and guidance.
- Embedding 70:20:10: support managers to use workplace experience, stretch activities, peer learning, coaching and mentoring as purposeful development opportunities.
- Designing and delivering engaging learning: create and facilitate face‑to‑face and virtual sessions, digital learning and practical tools, coordinating specialist external input where needed.
- Supporting compliance: work with managers to identify gaps, address barriers and maintain statutory and mandatory learning standards.
- Developing teams and supporting change: design and evaluate OD interventions that improve culture, leadership behaviours, team effectiveness and ways of working.
About us
Mental Health Matters is a national charity delivering mental health support for individuals and communities across the UK. Our people are at the heart of our work. We're committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment where colleagues can develop, thrive and make a meaningful difference. You'll join an evolving Learning and Organisational Development team, with the opportunity to contribute your expertise, shape new approaches and see the difference your work makes to colleagues and services.
Job responsibilities
Regional Learning Business Partner Hours: 37.5 hours per week Salary: £39,357-£43,791 per annum Location: Hybrid, supporting services across the North East, North West, South Yorkshire and Midlands. Build capability. Strengthen leadership. Make learning matter.
About the role:
What if your next organisational development and learning business partnering role gave you the opportunity to strengthen leadership, culture and the delivery of mental health services? We're looking for an experienced Regional Learning Business Partner with practical OD expertise to strengthen leadership, organisational culture and workforce capability across our services. This is a newly created role with a genuine opportunity to make your mark. You won't simply inherit established programmes or deliver off-the-shelf training. You'll help build our capability and competency frameworks from the ground up, shape and strengthen our existing leadership and management development offer, and create learning experiences that build the skills and confidence our colleagues need to thrive. Working alongside the Learning and OD Manager and wider People team, you'll advise and challenge operational leaders, diagnose organisational challenges and design evidence-based OD and learning interventions. This is your opportunity to move beyond delivering training and help shape the way an organisation learns, leads and grows. Your opportunity to make a difference. You'll bring together organisational development, learning expertise and a practical partnering approach to support colleagues and services across your region. Through training needs analysis and wider organisational diagnostics, you'll use workforce and engagement insights to identify root causes and agree OD and development priorities. Your insight will also inform capability and competency frameworks for colleagues across MHM, connecting the knowledge, skills and behaviours people need with relevant programmes, resources and workplace learning. Using the 70:20:10 approach, you'll help managers make development part of everyday work through practical experience, coaching, reflection and learning from others, alongside formal learning. You'll also have the opportunity to connect your work directly to our purpose. By helping managers become more confident, capable and effective, and supporting colleagues to develop the skills they need, you'll contribute to the successful delivery of mental health services. The impact of your work won't just be measured in courses delivered or training completed. It will be reflected in stronger leadership, improved management capability, more confident colleagues and a culture where people are supported to keep learning and improving.
What you'll be doing:
- Partnering with services: provide OD consultancy and constructive challenge to Heads of Service and managers, diagnosing organisational needs and agreeing regional OD and learning priorities.
- Identifying development needs: use organisational diagnostics, training needs analysis, workforce data and colleague feedback to identify root causes and prioritise action.
- Developing frameworks and learning: help design and implement capability and competency frameworks, programmes and resources that support colleagues to perform effectively in their roles.
- Strengthening leadership and management: build on our existing offer through programme development, workshops, practical coaching and guidance.
- Embedding 70:20:10: support managers to use workplace experience, stretch activities, peer learning, coaching and mentoring as purposeful development opportunities.
- Designing and delivering engaging learning: create and facilitate face‑to‑face and virtual sessions, digital learning and practical tools, coordinating specialist external input where needed.
- Supporting compliance: work with managers to identify gaps, address barriers and maintain statutory and mandatory learning standards.
- Developing teams and supporting change: design and evaluate OD interventions that improve culture, leadership behaviours, team effectiveness and ways of working.
- Supporting new services: contribute to mobilisation through effective induction and team development, helping new colleagues and managers build connections and a sense of belonging.
- Working collaboratively: partner with People colleagues to align learning with workforce priorities, engagement and inclusion, including relevant qualifications and career development opportunities.
- Contributing to our commercial offer: deliver high‑quality learning for external organisations, adapting your approach to different audiences and representing MHM professionally.
- Evaluating impact: assess whether OD and learning interventions improve leadership behaviours, team effectiveness, culture and service delivery.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- You'll bring:
- Demonstrable experience partnering with senior operational leaders, providing OD consultancy, constructive challenge and evidence‑based interventions.
- Experience of developing and implementing capability or competency frameworks, with a clear personal contribution to their design, introduction and use.
- Experience in training needs analysis and organisational diagnostics, using workforce data, engagement feedback and performance evidence to identify root causes.
- Experience of designing and delivering leadership and management development.
- Practical experience of applying the 70:20:10 learning model through workplace and social learning alongside formal development.
- Experience designing, implementing and evaluating OD interventions supporting organisational change, culture and team effectiveness.
- Confident coaching, influencing and facilitation skills, including face‑to‑face and virtual delivery.
- The ability to create accessible learning materials, digital resources and tools for different audiences.
- Experience of using learning data and compliance information to support managers and drive improvement.
- Evidence of evaluating OD and learning interventions, demonstrating changes in leadership, behaviours, team effectiveness or service outcomes.
- The ability to manage competing priorities across services while contributing to wider organisational projects.
Experience
- You'll bring:
- Demonstrable experience partnering with senior operational leaders, providing OD consultancy, constructive challenge and evidence‑based interventions.
- Experience of developing and implementing capability or competency frameworks, with a clear personal contribution to their design, introduction and use.
- Experience in training needs analysis and organisational diagnostics, using workforce data, engagement feedback and performance evidence to identify root causes.
- Experience of designing and delivering leadership and management development.
- Practical experience of applying the 70:20:10 learning model through workplace and social learning alongside formal development.
- Experience designing, implementing and evaluating OD interventions supporting organisational change, culture and team effectiveness.
- Confident coaching, influencing and facilitation skills, including face‑to‑face and virtual delivery.
- The ability to create accessible learning materials, digital resources and tools for different audiences.
- Experience of using learning data and compliance information to support managers and drive improvement.
- Evidence of evaluating OD and learning interventions, demonstrating changes in leadership, behaviours, team effectiveness or service outcomes.
- The ability to manage competing priorities across services while contributing to wider organisational projects.
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 name
Mental Health Matters
Address
Waterside House, Sunderland Enterprise Park, St Catherine's Ct, Sunderland SR5 2TZ
Waterside House, Sunderland Enterprise Park, St Catherine's Ct, Sunderland SR5 2TZ
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