Employment Relations Officer (Fair Pay for Nursing)

As an Employment Relations Officer working on our Fair Pay for Nursing programme, you’ll use your positive attitude, your knowledge of nursing pay, terms and conditions and your skills in policy, data and research, to deliver against the RCN’s agenda for long term structural change to nursing pay.

It's a job full of possibilities as you could get involved in anything from coordinating and supporting national pay projects to delivering pay ballots. We'll look to you to develop and analyse pay data and research to develop new policy and campaigning positions on pay and strengthen our negotiations. It's a great way to build your knowledge of our work and develop your potential.

The person
To join us you’ll need a good knowledge and understanding of nursing pay, analytical skills and, ideally, a experience in project management, support or coordination.  The ideal candidate would also have some experience with trade union organising and with managing a mix of stakeholders in a range of settings.

Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show a real focus on our members 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 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.

Package
We offer a range of benefits, including learning & development opportunities, a health and wellbeing programme and annual leave starting from 28 days plus bank holidays and 3 additional days for the Christmas break plus generous parental leave packages.

There is more to the RCN than you might think. We’re a trade union with a membership of over half a million nurses, midwives, nursing support workers and students. We support their practice, represent them, lobby on their behalf, and develop them. 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.
 

Our selection process
Please click the ‘apply now’ button to apply and answer the supporting questions online demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role.  You may not be shortlisted if you don’t. 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 may hold our interviews and assessments in person or by video call. 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 proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities.

Contact details
For more information or for a conversation about the role please contact andrea.dobbing@rcn.org.uk to arrange an informal discussion.

For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk

Closing date: 11.59pm, 5 July 2026.
Selection date: 15 July 2026.