Director of Scotland
- Employer
- Royal College of Nursing
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Salary
- £116,979 + an impressive range of benefits
- Closing date
- 16 Nov 2020
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- Job Type
- Permanent
- Category
- Executive, Strategy & Commercial, Director
Job Details
The Royal College of Nursing is the largest trade union of nursing staff and students in the UK - with around 450,000 members – and represents nurses, midwives, student nurses, health care assistants, assistant practitioners, nursing degree apprentices and trainee nursing associates across the UK
We are an optimistic organisation and we've got good reason to be! We all share the same voice when it comes to changing the shape of the health policies of the future and all we can see are the infinite possibilities for a brighter future!
The RCN is seeking to appoint a credible, experienced and enthusiastic Director to lead the Scottish Team. This is a critical role with a complex landscape of stakeholders, members and internal staff to manage and with accountability for delivering RCN’s strategic direction in Scotland, whilst leading UK wide work on behalf of the Executive Team / Council. The RCN is both a Trade Union and a Royal College, and the Director of Scotland will work across both areas, reporting to the Chief Executive and General Secretary, Dame Donna Kinnair.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead Scotland for the RCN and to work as part of a focussed, talented and collaborative Executive Team across the UK.
To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter to Ailsa Sutherland, Director, FWB Park Brown.
Company
The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.To deliver our mission we aim to:Represent• the interests of nurses and nursing and be their voice locally, nationally and internationally. Influence• and lobby governments and others to develop and implement policy that improves the quality of patient care, and builds on the importance of nurses, health care assistants and nursing students to health outcomes. Support and protect• the value of nurses and nursing staff in all their diversity • their terms and conditions of employment in all employment sectors • the interests of nurses professionally. Develop• and educate nurses professionally and academically, building our resource of professional expertise and leadership • the science and art of nursing and its professional practice. Build• a sustainable, member led, organisation with the capacity to deliver our mission effectively, efficiently and in accordance with our values • the systems, attitudes and resources to offer the best possible support and development to our staff.
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