Senior RCN Officer
| Posting date: | 11 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £66,909 to £75,492 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Royal College of Nursing |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | RCN02551 |
Summary
Senior RCN Officer, Lothian and Borders, Lanarkshire and The State Hospital
Scotland HQ, 35 hours, permanent
Salary range per annum: £66,909-£75,492*
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 a Senior RCN Officer you’ll use your existing line management skills, Trade Union knowledge and experience with HR employment processes, along with your positive attitude, to deliver advice and representation to our members who are facing employment and professional issues.
You’ll also work to influence and negotiate on behalf of our members and build relationships with health and social care providers across your patch.
You’ll manage your own case load of complex cases and supervise the cases of your team of RCN Officers and RCN Accredited representatives to deliver high quality, accurate and timely advice and support to our members in all health care settings across the Lothian and Borders, Lanarkshire and State Hospital Patch.
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 as a Senior RCN Officer, you must hold an NMC registration as a nurse or midwife.
As well as exceptional customer service, to join us you’ll need an in-depth knowledge of health and social care issues, equality and diversity, and employment relations.
You’ll need to demonstrate excellent line management skills and the ability to analyse and scrutinise complex data and documents so you can advise and represent our members on matters relating to employment processes, professional practice and education, as well as supporting your team to do the same.
You will need to have good communication skills, be able to challenge and negotiate skilfully and be able to build effective, professional relationships with a range of stakeholders across a variety of health and care settings.
You will need to be able to travel within Scotland to enable us to support and advocate for our members when required.
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.
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. Our hybrid working model allows for up to 60% of your working time to be carried out from home. At least 40% of your working time will be spent working in person.
Our selection process
Please click the ‘apply now’ button to submit a CV and answer the supporting questions online demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t. Please ensure your CV is in a simple format with minimal tables and sections. Any identifying information in your application will automatically be anonymised for shortlisting purposes.
We want your experience applying for a job with us to be the best it can be. We will hold our interviews and assessments in person. If you foresee any problems, please let us know.
Equal opportunities for everyone
Equity, diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we aim to foster an inclusive environment so our people can bring their authentic selves to work. This is integral to our mission to enable you to support our members and ensure their voice is heard by all UK governments to get the best outcomes for them and their patients.
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 Norman Provan, Associate Director, Employment Relations on 0131 662 6150.
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk
Opening date: 7th October 2024
Closing date: 11.59pm on 31st October 2024
Selection date: 15th November 2024
Scotland HQ, 35 hours, permanent
Salary range per annum: £66,909-£75,492*
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 a Senior RCN Officer you’ll use your existing line management skills, Trade Union knowledge and experience with HR employment processes, along with your positive attitude, to deliver advice and representation to our members who are facing employment and professional issues.
You’ll also work to influence and negotiate on behalf of our members and build relationships with health and social care providers across your patch.
You’ll manage your own case load of complex cases and supervise the cases of your team of RCN Officers and RCN Accredited representatives to deliver high quality, accurate and timely advice and support to our members in all health care settings across the Lothian and Borders, Lanarkshire and State Hospital Patch.
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 as a Senior RCN Officer, you must hold an NMC registration as a nurse or midwife.
As well as exceptional customer service, to join us you’ll need an in-depth knowledge of health and social care issues, equality and diversity, and employment relations.
You’ll need to demonstrate excellent line management skills and the ability to analyse and scrutinise complex data and documents so you can advise and represent our members on matters relating to employment processes, professional practice and education, as well as supporting your team to do the same.
You will need to have good communication skills, be able to challenge and negotiate skilfully and be able to build effective, professional relationships with a range of stakeholders across a variety of health and care settings.
You will need to be able to travel within Scotland to enable us to support and advocate for our members when required.
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.
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. Our hybrid working model allows for up to 60% of your working time to be carried out from home. At least 40% of your working time will be spent working in person.
Our selection process
Please click the ‘apply now’ button to submit a CV and answer the supporting questions online demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t. Please ensure your CV is in a simple format with minimal tables and sections. Any identifying information in your application will automatically be anonymised for shortlisting purposes.
We want your experience applying for a job with us to be the best it can be. We will hold our interviews and assessments in person. If you foresee any problems, please let us know.
Equal opportunities for everyone
Equity, diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we aim to foster an inclusive environment so our people can bring their authentic selves to work. This is integral to our mission to enable you to support our members and ensure their voice is heard by all UK governments to get the best outcomes for them and their patients.
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 Norman Provan, Associate Director, Employment Relations on 0131 662 6150.
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk
Opening date: 7th October 2024
Closing date: 11.59pm on 31st October 2024
Selection date: 15th November 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.