Location
London

Hours
2 Posts – Permanent, 1 x 35 hours per week & 1 x 28 hours per week

Salary
£47,745 per annum

About the Role
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. We’re a trade union with a membership of close to half a million nurses, midwives, nursing support workers, and students. As the UK’s largest trade union and professional body for nursing, we represent and develop members, support their practice, and lobby on their behalf to make a positive difference to their working lives.
As a National Officer in the Employment Relations Department, you’ll use your positive attitude, knowledge of employment/industrial relations, ability to deliver bargaining and negotiations, and skills in influencing for change to protect and improve the working lives of RCN members and the nursing profession. This includes all aspects of pay, terms, and conditions of their employment.
It's a job full of possibilities; you could get involved in developing and delivering the RCN pay and bargaining strategy across the UK and a range of sectors. You could also contribute expertise and leadership to the creation and maintenance of resources to support collective bargaining for RCN members, representatives, and staff, or monitor and respond to developments in industrial/employment relations issues.
We'll look to you to coordinate collective bargaining and organizing opportunities and responses to consultations, planning and coordinating necessary actions to ensure that RCN members are fully supported and activism is developed within workplaces. You will seek to utilize an organizing approach to various aspects of industrial relations to help build member power and the RCN as the Voice of Nursing, particularly within the independent health and social care sector.
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 employment/industrial relations with trade unions, employers, employer organizations, and statutory bodies. You’ll be expert in working with a wide range of stakeholders and in developing activism, with an understanding of nursing employment/industrial relations, especially relating to bargaining and pay, terms, and conditions.

Experience
Experienced in employment/industrial relations with trade unions, employers, employer organizations, and statutory bodies.

About you
Expert in working with a wide range of stakeholders and in developing activism. You will demonstrate employment/industrial relations knowledge across different sectors where nursing staff are employed. The ability to foster strong professional relationships and encourage close collaboration between internal and external stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are mentioned, but a strong background in employment/industrial relations is required.