Unison RVH Branch

Unison RVH Branch delegates at this year's National Delegate Conference in Brighton, Branch Secretary Margaret McKee was chairing the fringe meeting on Palestine alongside our Comrades from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK.
TUFP (Trade Union Friends of Palestine)
Unison Northern-Ireland

📣 NOW HIRING – Support Services Assistants (Band 2)
Multiple locations across Belfast Trust
Need flexible hours that fit around school or other commitments?
We’ve got opportunities across our Support Services teams – and you don’t need loads of experience to apply
Location:
- Community Settings (North & West, South & East)
- Mater, Musgrave and City Hospitals
- Acute Mental Health Inpatient Centre, B*H

🧹 About the role
As a Support Services Assistant, you’ll play a key role in maintaining safe and clean hospitals and facilities across the Trust.
You’ll be involved in:
⭐Cleaning and maintaining clinical and non-clinical areas
⭐Supporting infection prevention by keeping environments safe and hygienic
⭐Basic catering duties (e.g. preparing and serving meals)
⭐Laundry tasks such as handling bed linen
⭐Supporting patients, staff and visitors with a friendly, professional approach

🕒 Shifts available
Afternoon / evening shifts (perfect for school leavers or those wanting part-time work)
Various locations across Belfast Trust
Additional roles coming up over the next 6 months (waiting list duration)

✅ What you need (Essential Criteria)
You don’t need formal qualifications — but we are looking for people who can demonstrate:

✨Basic literacy and numeracy skills
✨Good organisation and ability to work quickly and accurately
✨Ability to work as part of a team or on your own
✨Willingness to follow training and complete induction programmes
✨Ability to maintain high standards of cleanliness

🌟 Why apply?

No experience needed — full training provided
Great first step into the NHS
Flexible hours to suit you
Make a real difference in your community

📲 Apply now
👉 https://jobs.hscni.net/Search?SearchCatID=70&SearchOrgID=1&SearchBandID=34&keyword=

WOW ... FANTASTIC
That was the largest anti-racist demonstration in Belfast ever...
Well done to everyone who attended to show our brother and sister from the black and Migrant community our solidarity and support " YOU ARE BELFAST "
💚 REFUGEE ARE WELCOME HERE 💜

Unison RVH Branch is asking our members to support your work colleagues who are being treated with intimidation and are fearful of returning to work while these thugs are roaming the streets....
JOIN US TOMORROW... LET'S SHOW OUR FRIENDS WITHIN THE BLACK AND MIGRANT WORKFORCE THAT THEY ARE WELCOME TO THIS ISLAND 💜💚
Get behind your banner

Unison Northern-Ireland
United Against Racism Belfast
UNISON

Tonight it was great to see Unison RVH Branch activists from the branch alongside Unison Northern-Ireland staff walking the wards of the RVH tonight making sure our international workers can get home and feel supported.
Remember these are our streets this is our city.....
Racism and fascism have no place in our workplace or our communities....💜💚
UNISON

🛑 URGENT ACTION 🛑
It has been reported to our office that some of our members have been threatened and intimidated by the racist thugs on our streets either coming into work or trying to get home from work....
The office will be open if anyone wants to come and speak to a representative or if you want to phone 02896151286 Unison RVH Branch & Unison Northern-Ireland representatives will be on the ground at the front entrance to the new building and around the wards , anyone regardless of what union you are a member off , come and speak to the representative make them aware of your situation and how we can help you 💜💚
PLEASE SHARE AS SOME OF YOUR WORK COLLEAGUES MAY NOT BE ON THIS PAGE

Nurse chased by 'masked men in racist attack' on way to work at Belfast Hospital.

Despite the harrowing ordeal, the nurse was determined to carry out her duties on arriving at the hospital, says Patricia McKeown from UNISON who called for 'decisive action' on threats to staff.
Unison Northern-Ireland

Nurse chased by 'masked men in racist attack' on way to work at Belfast Hospital A nurse was chased and intimidated by four masked men in a racist attack as she travelled to the Ulster Hospital in Northern Ireland on Wednesday evening

📰UNISON PRESS RELEASE📰

𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 - 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠 𝗢𝗨𝗧 - 𝗡𝗢 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗦

Today our union is helping displaced families and terrified workers through yet another racist trauma. This is even more widespread than the attacks in 2024 and 2025.

It is time to call out the dangerous people, many outside our society, who are manipulating some sections of our society for their own political ends and putting an entire section of this society at risk.

It is also time for a unified approach by ALL our political leaders to stand up to this manipulation and growing racism. There can be no excuses for what happened yesterday. From the outset it was clear that it was a rallying call to violence.

On Monday, at a dignified UNISON rally, the valuable contribution of black and migrant workers to our health and social services system was publicly acknowledged by the Health Minister and some political parties at Stormont.

Yesterday, following a vicious attack in North Belfast, hate speech against the entire black and migrant community resulted in violence against some of the same workers and their families.

Our union concentrated our efforts on reassuring workers and meeting with employers to secure protections in work and coming to and from work. Today we have a terrified section of the workforce.

We have reports of:
• workers being followed to and from work,
• viable threats to health facilities with overseas workers
• workers being stopped by vigilantes to check their ethnicity
• workers facing racism in work
• workers being intimidated from their homes
• workers and their families afraid to leave home.

They are care workers, nurses, classroom assistants and a host of other occupations delivering key public services.

They are here because our government and public services invited them to fill the critical shortages in these vital services.

The hypocrisy of those behind the hate campaign is stunning.

Sadly, North Belfast is no stranger to hundreds of brutal murders and attacks during and post conflict. The exploitation of this incident because of the ethnicity of the assailant is obscene and must be called out for what it is. This is not legitimate protest.