Head of Operations
As our Head of Operations for our Eastern Regional team, you’ll use your enthusiasm, positive thinking, and your management skills to support our local team. You will promote integrated working between the professional and trade union elements of RCN work and liaising and working with other RCN staff and departments as appropriate.
As the Head of Operations, you will be a key member of the regional management team and key to managing the overall service delivery of the region and ensuring the effective provision of advice, support and representation to RCN members. An inclusive leader, you’ll role model RCN values and ensure the region works to challenge the discrimination our members experience in the workplace.
You’ll be responsible for the line management of Senior RCN Officers and overseeing the work and development for RCN reps and activists in the region. The regional management team lead on member and activist recruitment and retention.
Every day will be filled with possibilities as you find new ways to manage and support the development of your team. Taking care of our 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.
An experienced manager, you will need knowledge of contemporary nursing, health & social care issues as well as knowledge of best practice in relation to employment practices, equality and diversity, human rights and equal opportunities.
The ability to foster strong professional relationships and encourage close collaboration between departments is at the heart of this leadership role.
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.
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Rhagor
Dementia UK Admiral Nurse
About the role
Annual leave: 33 days (plus eight bank holidays)
Benefits:
- enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental pay
- family-friendly policies
- 8% employer pension contribution (Aviva) or opportunity to continue NHS pension
- free health cashback plan (Medicash): employee cover plus up to four dependent children
- 24/7 virtual GP access (UK registered), plus access to Best Doctors
free, confidential employee assistance programme (Medicash)
- access to a wellbeing app
- flexible working options including hybrid working, flexible working patterns such as part-time, compressed hours, and more*
- learning and development opportunities including bespoke training and access to LinkedIn Learning)
- commitment to employee health and wellbeing.
- we have a Menopause Friendly accreditation and are a Disability Confident employer
In the last year, the Charity has embarked on an exciting three-year corporate partnership with Nationwide Building Society. As part of this initiative, we've launched face-to-face Admiral Nurse clinics, bringing expert dementia support directly to high streets across the UK. Find out more about our partnership with Nationwide Building Society here.
As part of the Nationwide Clinics Programme team, you will provide in-person support and advice, imparting specialist dementia nursing expertise and biopsychosocial support. Your focus will be in supporting family carers, people affected by dementia, and professionals who require specialist dementia guidance in areas of the UK where such services are currently unavailable, bringing a much-needed service directly to local communities. Hear from our own Dementia UK Admiral Nurse about their day working in the Nationwide Clinics here.
Rhagor
Barts Health NHS Trust,LondonArbenigedd:259 NutritionCyflog:£54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc.