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Please upload your CV along with a supporting statement as one document in PDF or Word format. Your CV and supporting statement should be tailored to reflect the competencies within the person specification.

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Knowsley Council is an award-winning Local Authority, named Local Authority of the Year in the Municipal Journal Awards 2024.

We are an Accredited employer under the Liverpool City Region Fair Employment Charter, demonstrating that we are committed to the principle of fair employment and we are dedicated to providing a healthy, fair, inclusive and just workplace.

As part of investment in our HR/Workforce service, an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Trainee Organisational Development Practitioner to join our Organisational Development (OD) team at Knowsley Council has arisen.

Are you passionate about learning and culture change?

Have you got experience of supporting and leading innovative, inclusive and impactful OD and cultural change programmes? If so, you may be the perfect candidate for this role.

This exciting role will primarily work within the ‘Employee Experience’ area of the team to facilitate our 2-day onsite Corporate Induction; support and lead programmes and initiatives to attract and retain talent and develop learning interventions, including delivering training, with the goal of bringing about culture change.

You will have experience of working across different OD functions such as learning and development and implementing people development and OD projects leadership, talent management, employee engagement, equality diversity and inclusion, wellbeing and measuring their effectiveness.

The successful candidate will be instrumental in the design, facilitation and evaluation of a range of Organisational Development and Learning interventions bringing about culture change, driving an inclusive employee experience, and growing our learning culture working with the wider service as required.

They will also support the development and implementation of our People Strategy and continuous and proactively look for new and improved ways of doing things, staying ahead of the latest thinking in the OD field.

At Knowsley Council we will consider requests for flexible working. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, part-time. There is a requirement for you to attend your work base at least 2 days per week, some weeks this maybe more due to delivering induction and other training on site.

We welcome applications from residents and beyond, regardless of background, belief, or identity, recognising the value that diversity brings to our organisation. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and candidates with disabilities as we acknowledge their underrepresentation in our workforce.

Please note sponsorship is not available for this role.

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applicants.

The aim of this career graded role is to allow for development, learning and progression. When applications are being shortlisted, this will be done initially based on meeting the minimum levels of requirements at the lowest level of the career graded role. If the calibre of applications is extremely high, and this leads to a significant number of candidates fulfilling the minimum requirements of the role at the lowest grade, further shortlisting would take place and candidates with the highest levels of experience will be shortlisted.

At Knowsley we value our applicants and want them to feel well-informed and welcomed. If you have any questions about this specific job role or what it is like to work at Knowsley, please contact:

Gwen Forkin at gwen.forkin@knowsley.gov.uk or Helen Baggaley at helen.baggaley@knowsley.gov.uk

Interview date: 13th August 2026