People & OD Assistant

Royal College of Nursing

People & OD Assistant

Ref: RCN02306

London HQ, 35 hours, FTC/Secondment opportunity (maternity cover until January 2025)

£27,747 – £31,326 per annum plus London Weighting of £4,872 per annum

As a People & OD Assistant, you’ll use your enthusiasm, initiative and excellent administrative and customer service skills to deliver an exceptional service to our people.

In this varied role every day is filled with possibilities. You’ll be the first point of contact for all queries from staff and managers on People & OD processes and procedures throughout the whole employee journey from recruitment to retirement. You’ll maintain our records and systems, draft employment contracts and letters, produce sickness absence reports, support learning events and process payroll documents.

To join us you’ll need exceptional customer service and administration skills and, experience of working within a busy HR function.

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 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.

What we deliver for our members is wide and varied so when it comes to how we work one size doesn’t fit all. We also know that to empower our people to do their best work, they must be able to balance the demands of work and home. 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. Departments and directorates have their own hybrid ways of working which put the needs of the service they deliver – whether that’s to members or to colleagues – at their heart, in alignment with our hybrid working core principles.

At the RCN it’s unlikely you will work from home for all of your working time. Equally no one is expected to work solely in the office unless your role requires it. You can find out more by having a discussion with the recruiting manager.

Our selection process

Please submit a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t.

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.

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 Lisa Halton, POD Coordinator at

For more information on the Recruitment & Selection process, please contact

Closing date: 3 January 2024.

If we receive many applications after a week of advertising, we may close this vacancy earlier.

Assessment & interview date: 9 January 2024.