Professional Lead Education (England and or Mental Health) - RCN02729
Nursing | Up to three locations available with hybrid working see advert | £72,003 (including inner London weighting of £5094)
Internal candidates only
Contract type: Permanent
Professional Lead for Education (England) 17.5 hours
Professional Lead for Education (Mental Health) 17.5 hours
Location(s):
London HQ (London Allowance applicable) Cardiff Or other RCN office in discussion and dependent on capacity. (Please enquire)
Salary range: £66,909 - £75,492 London allowance if applicable
Pro rata (17.5 hours): £33,454.50 - £37,746
The Role:
The two roles can be applied for individually or you may be interested in them both and apply for the one role.
As Professional Lead for Education, you will lead on designing and delivering our education, learning and development offer for nurses and nursing across the health and social care sectors. You will work closely with the education team and the staff within the Institute of Nursing Excellence.
The Professional Lead for Education (England) role will work with a team of educationalists to lead the development of the education offer, ensuring an equitable service across the 9 regions of RCN England, using a range of approaches to education, curriculum development, product design and quality assurance/evaluation.
As Professional Lead for Education (Mental Health), you will lead on designing and delivering our Mental Health Programmes and our general education offer for nurses and nursing across the health and social care sectors. You will work closely with the Project Management Office, NHS England and Professional leads within nursing to deliver, quality assure and evaluate the RCN Psychosocial Interventions and Greenlight offers.
The Person:
As a Professional Lead for Education (England), you’ll use your positive attitude, your knowledge and expertise in education and learning design and your ability to deliver lifelong learning, encouraging our people to engage in creative and contemporary learning opportunities that enable them to fulfil their potential. Every day will be filled with possibilities as you find new ways to support our members. A key part of what you do will be to suggest innovative approaches to grow our education offer and grow our membership.
As a Professional Lead for Education (Mental Health) you will be an accomplished Nurse Leader, a registered Mental Health Nurse with the NMC, with a track record of designing, delivering, and evaluating education, learning and development activities, using multi-modal approaches for a diverse audience of individuals and group.
Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show a real customer focus in all you do. You will demonstrate a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, a passion for delivering exceptional customer service, and the ability to build and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues, customers and suppliers.
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 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.
There may be further flexibility to the locations advertised. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss if alternative office locations are available.
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. Please make it clear which role you are applying for (or both if relevant). 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 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 the Heads of Education at headsofeducation@rcn.org.uk
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk
Opening date: 6.8.25
Closing date: 11.59pm on 24.8.25
If we receive many applications after a week of advertising, we may close this vacancy earlier.
Interview date: TBC
Interview date:
Contracted hours: 2x 17.5 or 35