Head of Students and RCN King's Cadets - RCN02675
Nursing | RCN UK HQ with hybrid working | £84,576 (including inner London weighting of £5094)
Internal candidates only
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract
Head of Students and RCN Kings Cadets
London HQ with Hybrid working 35 hours, 12 month Internal Secondment
Salary range per annum £79,482 to £89238 pro rata plus London Weighting allowance of 5,094 per annum (pro-rata)
We're accredited with Investors in People Silver Standard. Our people are our greatest asset, and we want people who can contribute to our purpose in line with our values.
As Head of Students and RCN Kings Cadets you’ll use your positive attitude, your knowledge of nursing and workforce pipelines and your ability to deliver excellent education programmes.
It's a job full of possibilities as you could get involved in anything from strategic leadership to teaching nursing cadets and organising nursing student events. We'll look to you to leading our student member offer and the nursing cadet scheme across the four UK countries. We'll look to you to lead the student member offer and nursing cadet scheme and encourage our new generation of nurses. It's a great way to build on your skills and experience and develop your potential.
To join us you’ll need strategic leadership skills and, ideally, a background in a relevant area such as practice or university education.
Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show a real stakeholder focus 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 students, cadets and stakeholders. 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.
Our selection process
Please click the ‘apply now’ button to submit a CV and answer the supporting questions online demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t. Please ensure your CV is in a simple format with minimal tables and sections. 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 a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities.
Contact details
For more information or for an informal discussion about the role please contact David Clarke, Associate Director of Education at David.Clarke@rcn.org.uk or 02920 893 071
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk
Opening date: 29 April 2025
Closing date: 11.59pm on 25 May 2025
If we receive many applications after a week of advertising, we may close this vacancy earlier.
Assessment centre: 12 June 2025
Interview: 18 June 2025
Interview date: 18/06/2025
Contracted hours: 35