Senior Rcn Officer - Newbury, United Kingdom - RCN

RCN

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Newbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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The role

Senior RCN Officer RCN Wales Head Quarters Ty Maeth, Cardiff (hybrid working) 35 hours per week, Permanent Salary per annum: £64,026 to £72,240* Imagine being faced with a world of exciting possibilities that could ultimately enable you to support our members and help shape the health policies of the future.

As the UK's largest trade union and professional body for nursing, we support close to half a million members with unwavering loyalty and total commitment.

We represent and develop them, support their practice and lobby on their behalf to make a positive difference to their working lives.

As a Senior RCN Officer, you'll use your positive attitude, your knowledge of employment relations, your ability to deliver your skills in influencing for change and engaging with, and on behalf of, RCN members, to protect and improve the pay, terms, and conditions of their employment.

We're accredited with Investors in People Silver Standard.

Our people are our greatest asset, and we want people who can contribute to our purpose in line with our values.

It's a job full of possibilities, you could get involved in anything from developing and delivering the RCN services across South Wales, and a range of sectors.

We'll look to you to coordinate opportunities and responses to consultations, planning and coordinating/implementing necessary actions to ensure that RCN members and staff are fully supported as changes to pay, terms and conditions are negotiated and come into place, it's a great way to build your knowledge of our work and develop your potential.

The person

To join us you'll need to be a passionate professional who has ambition for change in support of RCN members.

We're seeking an individual experienced in strategic working, at a senior level, with trade unions, employers, employer organisations and statutory bodies.

You'll be expert in working with a wide range of stakeholders. You will bring a deep understanding and knowledge of nursing employment relations issues.

The ability to foster strong professional relationships and encourage close collaboration between internal and external stakeholders is at the heart of this role.

Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show a real member focus in all you do. To succeed at the Royal College of Nursing all you need to do is think bigger, better and brighter. And with an attitude like that, anything's possible. What we offer you We expect you to look after our members. And we expect you to be rewarded for it.

We offer an impressive range of benefits, a broad range of learning development opportunities and an award-winning health and wellbeing programme.

We offer annual leave up to 32 days plus bank holidays and three additional days for the Christmas break plus generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages.

*We offer a competitive pay structure with annual pay progression until you reach the top of the salary scale.

We normally offer new employees the first point of the salary range, although you may be able to negotiate a higher starting salary depending on your skills, experience and current salary.

What we deliver for our members is wide and varied so when it comes to how we work one size doesn't fit all.

We also know that to empower our people to do their best work, they must be able to balance the demands of work and home.

We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs and many of our employees enjoy flexible working enabling them to deliver results whilst having a good work life balance.

Departments and directorates have their own hybrid ways of working which put the needs of the service they deliver - whether that's to members or to colleagues - at their heart, in alignment with our hybrid working core principles.

At the RCN it's unlikely you will work from home for all of your working time. Equally no one is expected to work solely in the office unless your role requires it. You can find out more by having a discussion with the recruiting manager.

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Job Reference:
RCN02202