Capability Development Partner

Job Title                    Capability Development Partner 

Function:                   People Experience 

Location:                   Nottingham/Hybrid

Contract type:           Permanent

Salary:                       £39,618 with the opportunity to rise to £46,610 within 3 years.

Closing Date:            Monday 26th January 2026 

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Capability Development Partner to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first and to deliver against our strategic objectives.

We’re building an organisation that’s clear, connected and ready for the future. The Capability Development Partner plays a key role in designing, delivering, and evaluating learning and development initiatives that build organisational capability, enhance employee performance, and support a culture of continuous learning. This role ensures learning solutions are aligned with strategic priorities and accessible to all employees, looking for opportunities to bring learning closer to colleagues.  

Every day you will …

• You’ll create end to end design and delivery of programmes and tools that support core capability development from needs analysis, working closely across the all the people directorate teams. Partner with the Performance and Capability Development Lead to plan, organise and evaluate all activities.    
• Own and continue to shape the organisation wide the core development programmes offer, ensuring it’s accessible and delivers measurable outcomes. Working closely with the people experience leads, ensure that programmes are aligned to learning needs of collagues, with clear and measurable outcomes. The Capability  Development Partner will own all communication campaigns ensuring alignment with other People activities. 
• You’ll work in partnership with core colleagues within the People Team to align development initiatives with talent need priorities, our values and behaviours, and EVP. Meet with leaders and People Experience Leads to plan upcoming core learning activity providing guidance and resources as the Subject Matter Expert.  
• Utilise data, insight and feedback measure programme effectiveness and drive continuous improvement, demonstrating clear links to high performance and talent development. Track programme and initiative engagement, updating dashboards for review by the Performance and Capability Development Lead. Evaluate feedback and identify trends or success stories. 

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary: 

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards. 
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts. 

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care. 

What skills will help you thrive in this role? 

• Deep expertise in designing, delivering and evaluating capability development initiatives aligned with business strategy and future workforce needs. Strong understanding of design methodologies e.g. ADDIE, Kirkpatrick and other model.  
• Excellent facilitation skills that maintain participant engagement and deliver an effective learning environment.
• Skill in using data and insights to measure the impact of performance and capability initiatives and continuously improve them.
• Skilled in working collaboratively with internal customers and subject matter experts to co-create impactful solutions. 
• Keeping up with research and trends in future work, organisational agility, and culture to ensure strategies remain forward-looking and relevant. 

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at Careers@supplychain.nhs.uk 

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

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