Legal Officer x5
Salary: £47,745 - £53,934 per annum
Location: RCN South West Region, RCN West Midlands Region and RCN UK HQ
Basis: 2x permanent, 35 hours per week, Edinburgh base and 3x FTC (14 months, 10 months and 6 months), 35 hours per week
Reference: RCN02619
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.
As a Legal Officer you’ll use your positive attitude and initiative, your excellent communication, written and presentation skills, and your ability to maintain the highest professional standards whilst working within tight timescales to deliver legal advice, support and representation to RCN members in all aspects of regulatory law.
You will be a Qualified Solicitor, Barrister, CILEX Fellow or CILEX Lawyer with experience in handling a large caseload of Regulatory cases.
Working within a team, you will deliver excellent customer service to our members whilst maintaining the highest professional standards ensuring that you manage your time effectively and meet all deadlines.
What we offer you:
1. Impressive range of benefits
2. Broad range of learning development opportunities
3. Award-winning health and wellbeing programme
4. Annual leave up to 32 days plus bank holidays and three additional days for the Christmas break
5. Generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages
6. Competitive pay structure with annual pay progression
7. Flexible working enabling a good work-life balance
8. Hybrid working model allows for up to 60% of your working time to be carried out from home
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 Helen Duffield on helen.duffield@rcn.org.uk.
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk.
Closing date: 11.59pm on Sunday 2 March 2025.
If we receive many applications after a week of advertising, we may close this vacancy earlier.
Selection dates: 3 March 2025 Assessments and interviews: 10 & 11 March 2025
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