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Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

The RCN is a large, complex national organisation – and a major employer. Based at 22 different locations UK-wide, our team of more than 800 people work in a huge variety of different roles.

Many employees are former nurses or those from the healthcare profession. However, a significant proportion of our workforce come from other backgrounds – both inside and outside the public sector. These are just some of the areas we recruit to.

Administration, Advice and Guidance, IT, Policy, Public Affairs, PR, Marketing, HR, Training, Finance, Facilities...

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Why join us?

The RCN is a respected, innovative, high profile and genuinely influential membership organisation. We represent over 400,000 people  - making us the world’s largest professional union of nurses.

In these times of major change within healthcare and the wider public sector, our voice is more important than ever. The RCN team is dedicated to promoting the interests of nurses, midwives, health care assistants and, crucially, the people they care for. We have a heartfelt commitment to improving the health of the public and the experience of patients and their families. Joining us gives you a part to play in achieving positive change within nursing and healthcare.

We believe it’s important to offer an engaging, interesting working environment where ambitious employees will feel challenged and have the opportunity to add to their experience and track record. At the same time ours is a supportive, welcoming and diverse organisation where people with varying career aspirations can enjoy the work they do.

We believe in leading by example and offer outstanding benefits for our staff members. These include a minimum of 28 days’ holiday a year, a pension scheme based on Career Average Revalued Earnings (CARE), interest-free loans for season travel tickets and career development, childcare vouchers and enhanced maternity leave.

What our employees do

There are such a wide range of interesting career opportunities because of the broad nature of our work.

One aspect of our work is campaigning on key issues and lobbying government - using our credibility, experience and expertise to help shape healthcare policy.

In addition to campaigning and lobbying to bring about real improvements in the lives of nursing staff on the front line we promote excellence in practice. We support members' learning and development by maintaining one of the largest specialist nursing libraries in Europe, a wide selection of online courses and providing substantial development opportunities for both members and staff.

We also encourage our members to network and share knowledge through specialist nursing forums and a fortnightly bulletin.

Last but not least we offer confidential advice, information, counselling and support to our members on everything from careers and finance to employment issues and personal problems.

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