Dr Adam Turner FCIPD

Experience

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  The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  Feb 2006 - Apr 2007

  Learning and Development Manager

  Leading on the organisations HR learning and development strategy and operational development and running of the OD, learning and development function, team, budget and development of needs driven development packages.

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  Sandwell Primary Care Trust

  Apr 2007 - Apr 2009

  Head of Learning and Organisational Development

  > Leading the learning and organisational development, talent and leadership HROD programme ensuring alignment to overarching business objectives and return on investment. > Leading the creation of an organisational development strategy, enabling the organisation to transform into a new state to meet changing government policy drivers.> Innovative ‘inspire’ and ‘aspire’ leadership and workforce talent management programmes, creating an organisation-wide learning culture.> Managing a multi-disciplinary HROD team and a substantial organisational training budget. Show less

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  NHS West Midlands

  Apr 2009 - May 2012

  Education Development Manager

  > Providing HROD leadership within the learning and education development field across regional and national work programmes, impacting efficiencies on multi-million-pound healthcare workforce talent and education budgets. > Effectively leading a large portfolio of strategic work programmes that impacted a multitude of organisations, focusing on learning and educational innovation, quality assurance and enhancement, return on investment, commissioning, and contract management.> Improving performance, creating effective education quality assurance approaches, increasing productivity and efficiency of the team by over 500%. Show less

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  NHS Leadership Academy 💙

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2019

  Leading a wide portfolio of strategic HROD, leadership, talent and people development programmes with regional and national remit, hybridised long-term strategy development and delivery at pace, alongside bespoke consultancy-style solutions working with executive leaders. This included:> Leading the creation of national and innovative approaches to talent management and assessment, which impacted the entire NHS workforce.> Leading executive leader talent pools, assessment, development and workforce analytics.> Creating substantial cost savings by creating and managing an innovative ‘HROD associates’ consultancy faculty, using internal expertise to deliver projects and programmes, saving the business over £140,000 in less than a year compared to comparable use of external agencies. > Designing, scale and spread of a national ‘triumvirate leadership’ programme, demonstrating strong return on investment which enabled a successful business case to scale this into a national initiative.> Leading a variety of teams, both directly and matrixed, on cross-boundary programmes, managing a substantial budget and associated contractors. Show less

  • Leadership, Organisational Development and Talent Programme Lead

    Jun 2012 - Jan 2019

  • National Talent Management Project Lead

    Jan 2013 - Sept 2013
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  Coventry University

  Dec 2014 - Dec 2018

  Associate Lecturer

  Designing and delivering accredited leadership and talent programmes for a diverse audience, following academic quality standards.

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  NHS England

  Jan 2019 - now

  Leading the design and fast-paced delivery of the NHS national HR and OD strategy and programme of work to improve employee health and wellbeing services and the workforce, impacting all NHS organisations and reaching over 1.3m employees. This included:> Creating the national 'growing OH and wellbeing' strategy and social movement that empowered 1,000s of HROD leaders and wellbeing professionals to engage in improving all NHS employee health and wellbeing services and interventions. > NHS Health and Wellbeing Framework, winning national awards for the impact in empowering executive leaders to diagnose and develop needs driven wellbeing strategy and maximise return on investment.> Enabling service transformation initiatives that resulted in improved sickness absence rates and demonstrable return on investment. > Inclusive leader, manager and team development initiatives and resources, resulting in the creation of localised wellbeing cultures. > Workforce development initiatives resulting in widened skill mix, new roles, and partnerships with professional bodies to create workforce talent pathways/development programmes.> Managing a multi-million-pound programme budget, contract management and delivery at pace.> Creating a national ‘centre of excellence’ function, leading and managing a large matrixed team of internal and external stakeholders.More info: https://www.england.nhs.uk/supporting-our-nhs-people/health-and-wellbeing-programmes Show less Acting as an change consultant, creating a national people-centred approach to developing a community of service improvement and change agents across the entire NHS. This included: > Consultancy approach to designing bespoke learning programmes, workshops, and large-scale events to develop skills and capabilities on a national scale. > Leading the transformation of a contemporary approach to large-scale assessment and development centres, resulting in a learner-centred, cost efficient, and streamlined experience for 100’s of senior health leaders.> Developing board diagnostic tools and bespoke consultancy style service improvement support to senior leaders. Show less

  • Head of HR and Organisational Development

    Sept 2023 - now

  • National Improving Health and Wellbeing Lead

    Aug 2020 - now

  • Advancing Change and Transformation Associate

    Jan 2019 - Jul 2020