About this job
Keen to start a career with the biggest and best health trade union?
UNISON is the UK’s largest trade union with just under half a million members employed across a wide range of occupations in the health service in the four parts of the UK.
We work collectively with other unions to represent and advance the interests of health workers with Governments, policymakers and employers.
Our central Health Service Group team plays a leading role in Industrial Relations and workforce policy in the NHS and works with our regions, branches and other teams to win improvements for the whole healthcare workforce.
Assistant National Officers are based in our London headquarters (with access to hybrid working arrangements) and support the following types of work:
- Overseeing campaigns and projects run through our national committees and branches. For example, fighting workplace discrimination and inequality, and building job evaluation capacity.
- Supporting the running of discrete negotiations within the NHS Staff Council work programme.
- Supporting our engagement with policymakers on health workforce issues including through the NHS Social Partnership Forum.
- Commissioning/conducting research and providing analysis of data from a range of sources to inform and boost our policy positions.
We are looking for an Assistant National Officer to join our Health Service Group team.
The person we are looking for will help deliver our industrial relations programme for occupational therapy activists (including running a large activist network); develop our digital, research and data analysis capacity (including building on-line surveys, producing case study and evaluation reports); and support a range of policy and campaign initiatives.
Are you:
- Able to deploy good digital, research and technical skills to develop reports, tools and visual representations of data, and intelligence to support formal consultations on pay and policy?
- A good communicator in person, in writing and over social media?
- Willing to share and/or develop your expertise in policy or industrial relations issues for staff employed in the health service?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
Our ideal candidate will also have experience of working in a membership environment; understand democratic structures and processes; and have a developed knowledge of parliamentary and policy-making systems in the UK.
We are particularly keen to receive applications from underrepresented groups especially those with protected characteristics.
For further information and to apply please see below www.unison.org.uk/jobs.
How to apply
Please note that only the General Application Form will be accepted. Use of any other application form will result in your application not being considered.
Please send completed application forms along with the recruitment and monitoring form to healthrecruitment@unison.co.uk quoting the relevant reference number: BNE/92.
Completed application forms must be received by no later than 5pm on Friday 8 November 2024.
Successful candidates will hear from us by Friday 22 November 2024. Interviews will be held on Monday 2 and 3 December 2024.
About UNISON
UNISON is the UK’s leading public services trade union, with over 1.3 million members working in the public sector, private, voluntary and community sectors and in the energy services. We employ approximately 1,200 staff, with around 370 at our national centre in Euston in central London and the remainder in our 12 regions across the UK, including Northern Ireland.
UNISON is a dynamic, progressive union, committed to equality. We encourage men and women of all ages, Black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to work with us.
