Health, Safety and Wellbeing Senior National Officer

As a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Senior National Officer, you will provide health, safety and wellbeing expertise to support the creation and implementation of health, safety and wellbeing strategies for the RCN, ensuring alignment with member interests and organisational goals. The aim being to improve the physical and psychological working environments for nurses and nursing staff, wherever they work. This includes monitoring the external environment for new and emerging hazards, working closely with internal and external stakeholders and partnership working with national elected and appointed committees.

To join us you'll need a Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent Level 6 qualification in Occupational Health and Safety with a minimum of three years' experience working in a health and safety role. You should have experience of undertaking and managing negotiations and consultations in relation to health, safety and wellbeing issues and experience of strategic working with trade unions, employer organisations and statutory bodies. You must have excellent organisational and planning skills, be able to manage your time effectively and ensure that work is appropriately prioritised and completed on time. 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.

35 hours per week, Permanent Salary range per annum £71,124 - £80,250

• plus London Weighting up to £5,424.00 (if applicable)
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 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.