RCN Officer
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Croydon, London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Royal College of Nursing |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | RCN02430 |
Summary
RCN Officer
Southeast Croydon Office, 35 hours permanent
Grade F
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'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 an RCN Officer you’ll use your positive attitude and your knowledge of employment and health and care issues to deliver advice and representation to our members facing employment and professional issues. You’ll also work to influence and negotiate on behalf of our members. You’ll manage your case load supervised and supported by an RCN Senior Officer, working across a Patch area within the Southeast Region.
Every day will be filled with possibilities as you find new ways to manage and support the development of our accredited representatives and RCN members. You’ll also manage your own portfolio of casework which will include assisting and representing members with disciplinary and grievance procedures.
Taking care of our existing members will be your primary role, but you’ll also see the possibilities that new members can bring. A key part of what you do will be to suggest innovative approaches to grow our membership
To join us you’ll need an in-depth knowledge of health and social care issues, equality and diversity, and employment relations. You will need to have good communication skills, be able to challenge and negotiate skilfully and be able to work with a range of stakeholders across a variety of health and care settings.
You will need to be able to travel within the geographical area of the Southeast Region to enable us to support and advocate for our members when required. Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show a real customer 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 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.
Our selection processes
Please submit a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t.
We want your experience applying for a job with us to be the best it can be. We may hold our interviews and assessments in person or by video call If you foresee any problems, please let us know.
As a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme, we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities.
Contact details
For more information or for an informal discussion about the role please contact Donato Tallo, Senior Officer or Adele Longley Head of Operations Southeast on 02082539135
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk
Opening date: 22/04/2024
Closing date: 19/05/2024
If we receive many applications after a week of advertising, this vacancy may close earlier.
Assessment Centre & Interview: 28/05/2024
Southeast Croydon Office, 35 hours permanent
Grade F
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'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 an RCN Officer you’ll use your positive attitude and your knowledge of employment and health and care issues to deliver advice and representation to our members facing employment and professional issues. You’ll also work to influence and negotiate on behalf of our members. You’ll manage your case load supervised and supported by an RCN Senior Officer, working across a Patch area within the Southeast Region.
Every day will be filled with possibilities as you find new ways to manage and support the development of our accredited representatives and RCN members. You’ll also manage your own portfolio of casework which will include assisting and representing members with disciplinary and grievance procedures.
Taking care of our existing members will be your primary role, but you’ll also see the possibilities that new members can bring. A key part of what you do will be to suggest innovative approaches to grow our membership
To join us you’ll need an in-depth knowledge of health and social care issues, equality and diversity, and employment relations. You will need to have good communication skills, be able to challenge and negotiate skilfully and be able to work with a range of stakeholders across a variety of health and care settings.
You will need to be able to travel within the geographical area of the Southeast Region to enable us to support and advocate for our members when required. Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show a real customer 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 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.
Our selection processes
Please submit a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t.
We want your experience applying for a job with us to be the best it can be. We may hold our interviews and assessments in person or by video call If you foresee any problems, please let us know.
As a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme, we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities.
Contact details
For more information or for an informal discussion about the role please contact Donato Tallo, Senior Officer or Adele Longley Head of Operations Southeast on 02082539135
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk
Opening date: 22/04/2024
Closing date: 19/05/2024
If we receive many applications after a week of advertising, this vacancy may close earlier.
Assessment Centre & Interview: 28/05/2024
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.