RCN Officer

As an RCN Officer for Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, you will use your enthusiasm, and positive thinking, to support our members. You will support our RCN local representatives, using negotiating and interpersonal skills to ensure the Voice of Nursing is at the forefront of both NHS and private organisations. You will work alongside your patch colleagues and be supported by the wider regional team, who will help you develop your role. Taking care of our members will be your primary role, but you will 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 and recruit local representatives who are able to support our members within the workplace. You will be required to manage cases relating to employment or professional issues and offer professional support to RCN members through local HR processes. This will involve offering advice, and representation at meetings with the aim of ensuring the best possible outcome is achieved for our members.

We are looking for someone with good interpersonal skills, able to work under pressure with the ability to demonstrate a calm and composed manner in challenging circumstances. The ideal candidate will have experience of managing a variety of demands, prioritising workloads and be able to deliver outcomes to a high standard. In addition to this, the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate an awareness of health and social care issues that impact on nurses and health care support workers within the wider health care setting. The post holder will have experience of managing conflict and challenging situations on a regular basis as well as the ability to develop and sustain effective working relationships with both individuals and organisations. You will be efficient, effective and show a real customer focus in all you do. We would particularly welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. The post holder will be required to travel throughout the patch you opt to work in, and you will need to be a car driver with a current full driving licence and access to a car., 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 .

There is more to the RCN than you might think. We're a trade union with a membership of over 500,000 nurses, midwives, nursing support workers and students. We support nursing practice, represent nurses at a local and national level, lobby the Government on nurses' behalf, and support local and national development. We exist to make a positive difference to the working lives of our members and ultimately to standards in patient care. Our employees are drawn from many walks of life - we are nurses, marketers and communicators, administrators, IT professionals, policy and finance experts, lawyers… together we are so much more. We couldn't do what we do without our people. 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.

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