Head of Nursing - Newbury, United Kingdom - RCN

RCN

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Newbury, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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The role
Head of Nursing (Children & Young People)

RCN UK HQ Cavendish Square, London, with hybrid working available 35 hours per week, permanent Salary range per annum:
£76,059 to £85,395* 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 over 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. We support their practice, represent them, lobby on their behalf, and develop them. We exist to make a positive difference - to the working lives of our members and ultimately to standards in care. 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. As a Head of Nursing Practice you'll use your positive attitude, your knowledge of children and young people and your professionalism to deliver on the requirements of the role. It's a job full of possibilities and it's a great way to build your knowledge of our work and develop your potential. You will manage a team of Professional Leads with interlinked yet diverse portfolios. Taking care of our members will be a primary focus of the role as well suggesting innovative approaches to growing our membership. In this role you will support the development, delivery and evaluation of the RCNs Strategy and operational plan ensuring the Royal College of Nursing in continues to build and strengthen its leadership position as the voice of Nursing.

The person

To join us you'll need a background in children and young peoples services and care as well as the ability to foster strong professional relationships across the UK and internationally.

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.

Contact details and timescales

Job Reference:
RCN02319