Nurse Educator - Starship Community,Starship Child Health
- Senior Nursing role - Opportunity for professional growth!
- Monday to Friday position
- 1FTE Fixed Term to end June 2025
Te whiwhinga mahi| The Opportunity
Starship Community has been transformed to provide responsive community-based nursing care to infants, children, young people and families within the Auckland area. The Starship Community nursing team work in an integrated way across a number of areas of community nursing, including acute care, Well Child|Tamariki Ora, nursing in schools, school-based immunisation for Year 7 and 8 students as well as Rheumatic Fever prevention. Our service principles enable us to prioritise care for Māori, Pacific, Migrant and Refugee-background families.
We are seeking a senior registered nurse with strong leadership and advanced nursing skills in paediatrics. This Starship Community Nurse Educator is responsible for promoting, facilitating and providing clinical education to maximise healthcare delivery, enhance patient outcomes and promote clinical excellence and evidence-based professional nursing practice.
In this role you will facilitate new and experienced staff to receive the appropriate clinical support for orientation and ongoing professional development to enable the provision of safe patient care within the service. It is important that you can work autonomously, prioritise workload and work as part of a supportive senior nursing team committed to effective/evidenced based nursing practice.
For further details, please refer to the position descriptionhere.
Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills
We are looking for a proactive person who is ready for a new challenge and a chance to take a step up in their career path. It is essential that you meet the following criteria:
- Haveat least5 yearsnursing experience, preferably including community
- Interact effectively with a multi-disciplinary team and service members
- Maintain safe cultural practice and develop your cultural knowledge
- Have excellent supervisory, communication and problem-solving skills are essential in order to relate to and work with staff and patients at all levels.
- Experience supporting nurses learning through teaching /preceptoring
- A personal commitment to ongoing learning and development
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Have NZ Nursing registration with a current Annual Practicing Certificate
Ideally, you will hold or would be working towards a Post-Graduate Certificate or Diploma in specialty nursing practice.
Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation
Te Toka Tumai Auckland is part ofTe Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s National Health Service. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.
He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Whyyou willenjoy working here
We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland. For more information on what we offer,please click here.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply
Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role.
If you have queries about the role, please contact Jo Peterson, Service Clinical Director[email protected]for a confidential chat.
If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, please contact Anel Foord[email protected]to discuss how we can best support your application.
Immigration/Visa Support
Immigration NZ has introduced a new Accredited Employer Work Visa system from 4 July 2022 that includes a simplified residency process for health workers on the new “Green List” of occupations - and this position is one of those designated critical positions! For successful candidates offered a position with us who require a Work Visa, we will provide support with their Visa application. Here are the links to two key pages of NZ Immigration's official site for more information:Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work VisaandImmigration NZ Green List Occupations