North West region, Bolton office: 35 hours per week

We are willing to consider flexibility on working hours. If you would prefer different hours to those listed above, please indicate the hours you want to work in your application.

Salary range per annum: £49,275 - £55,668 pro rata*

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 Pay Delivery Officer, you will use your enthusiasm, positive thinking, and engagement skills to support our members to understand their rights and build confidence to make meaningful change. You’ll be working with staff, reps and members in your region to organise activities to raise awareness about the RCN’s key pay, terms and conditions campaigns, with a large focus on job evaluation and the rollout of the recently launched suite of new national nursing profiles. You’ll work with members to organise on pay locally and hold employers to account where it is needed. Empowering our members will be your primary role, but you’ll also see the possibilities that new members can bring as you work to organise on pay locally in your region.

To join us you’ll need a sound knowledge of nursing pay, terms and conditions, as well as skills in organising and energising members to take action. This will include planning projects, events and delivering training. Ideally you would have a good knowledge of job evaluation in the NHS, along with a background in activism, organising or campaigning. You’ll need to be a well organised self-starter and able to work in a team. Strong relationship-building skills are key in this role. Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show a real member focus in all you do.

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.

Our selection process

Please click the ‘apply now’ button to apply and answer the supporting questions online demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t. 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 on Oliver Dobson on to book in an informal discussion with the recruiting manager, Dawn Elliott.

For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact

Opening date: 17 December 2025

Closing date: midnight on 20 January 2026

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