Purpose
To build the cultural conditions that enable genuinely integrated working across the Leeds Provider Partnership. This programme focuses on developing shared values, inclusive behaviours, trust, and collaborative mindsets, ensuring that workforce integration is not only structural but cultural. By embedding system level organisational development, Leeds creates the foundations for innovation, partnership working, and sustainable workforce transformation.
Key aims:
- Strengthen the culture and behaviours required for integrated care.
- Build trust, psychological safety, and shared purpose across organisations.
- Support leaders and teams to work collaboratively across boundaries.
- Create conditions where workforce transformation can succeed and be sustained.
Strategic Drivers
- Integrated Care Delivery: Structural integration alone is not enough—cultural alignment is essential for effective joint working.
- Workforce Transformation: OD underpins new care models, flexible roles, and shared workforce approaches.
- Equality, Inclusion & Culture: Inclusive behaviours and relational working are central to improving staff experience and reducing inequalities.
- System Collaboration: Strong relationships and shared behaviours reduce duplication, increase efficiency, and support seamless care.
Approach
- Shared Values & Behaviours Framework: Co‑designed expectations for how staff and leaders work across organisations.
- Collaborative OD Interventions: Cross organisational workshops, team development, reflective practice, and culture building activities
- Leadership & Team Support: Tools and frameworks to strengthen relationships, inclusive behaviours, and collective problem solving.
- Cultural Diagnostics: Insight driven improvement using staff feedback, experience data, and behavioural observations.
- Embedded Practice: Integrating OD approaches into everyday work, not standalone initiatives.
Focus
- Culture for Integration: Develop mindsets and behaviours that support cross system collaboration‑system collaboration.
- Inclusive Relationships: Build trust, belonging, and psychological safety across organisations.
- Collective Problem Solving: Strengthen ability to navigate complexity together.
- Sustainable Transformation: Create cultural conditions that allow workforce change to take root and deliver impact.
Academy Role
Accelerate Progress; Drive forward shared OD priorities at scale, supporting consistent, rapid adoption of integrated behaviours across organisations.
Connector: Bring together leaders, OD teams, workforce leads, and frontline staff to develop a unified culture and shared expectations.
Catalyst: Use insight, behavioural data, and engagement feedback to trigger improvements in how teams relate, collaborate, and lead.
Partner: Work alongside all provider organisations to embed OD methods that strengthen relationships, inclusion, and team-based working.
Innovator: Introduce new approaches to collaborative OD, such as cross provider team development, shared reflective practice, and systemwide behavioural frameworks.
Expected Impact (Healthy Leeds Plan Alignment)
- More integrated, collaborative teams delivering seamless care across boundaries.
- A healthier, more inclusive workplace culture, improving staff experience and belonging.
- Stronger relationships and trust between organisations and professions.
- Cultural foundations for workforce transformation, enabling flexible roles and neighbourhood-based working.
- Improved outcomes and experiences for people, through more coordinated and compassionate care.