Professional Lead for Nursing Workforce Research

As our Professional Lead for Nursing Workforce Research, you'll make a critical contribution to the Workforce Academy's programme of research, informing national debate, RCN policy, and advocacy. You'll work closely with policy leaders, academic partners, and external stakeholders across health, education, and government to ensure our research is timely, relevant, and influential. This role sits at the heart of our mission to improve the lives of those in nursing and ensure safe and cost-effective care for patients. This role will play a key part in our mission to demonstrate the value of registered nurse staffing to achieving nursing excellence.

You'll have a PhD in a relevant discipline, with expertise in mixed methods and / or quantitative methodology and excellent knowledge and understanding of workforce research, data analysis and evidence synthesis. You'll have the ability to analyse economic data, familiarity with analysing economic data and an interest in health economic modelling or econometric approaches. You'll have experience in working with primary and secondary data, including managing or interpreting complex datasets, alongside an appreciation of different analytical tools or software. You'll have excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to interpret numerical and health economics findings and contribute to data-informed insights for research or policy. 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.

At the Royal College of Nursing, we represent over half a million nurses, nursing support workers, and students across the UK. We are a voice for the profession - and behind that voice is the evidence. We're looking for an exceptional individual to lead our workforce research, shaping the agenda that influences policy, practice, and the future of healthcare. Our aim in the Workforce Academy situated in the Institute of Excellence, is to use robust evidence as the catalyst for combatting the nursing workforce crisis. We're focused on the systemic causes of trends that are driving up mental ill health and attrition among nursing staff and driving down the quality of patient care.

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.