Service : Central Region Critical Care Units
Contract : Fixed term 1 year contract
Salary : $87,999 - $104,108
Korero mo te turanga About the role
The Critical Care Expansion Programme has committed funding to support and increase Allied Professions workforce capacity and capability within critical care settings by funding Educators for Allied Professions within the Central Region.
This role will provide coordination of the education programme across the Central Region but will be based at Wellington Regional Hospital.
They will be the leader and glue to coordinate and support the educators to develop skills and knowledge frameworks for the Allied Professions roles that will work in ICU / HDU or provide care for patients when transferred back to their home District.
This role will also connect and network with the National coordinator role to ensure consistency (with local flavour) of these roles across Te Whatu Ora.
These will at least initially, be fixed term roles for 1 year.
Mo to matou ropu About our team
This is a new team that will be both part of allied professions clinically, but also liaise closely with both the nursing educator roles and the regional profession specific staff working in critical care.
The coordinator role will be intrinsic to establishing the culture and work ethic of the team, and the networking and partnering with the nursing educator roles and team leaders for each profession.
The AP educator team will work across the Central region, they may be based at any of the 6 hospital sites, but expected to work across all clinicians within those professions working in critical care, and alongside the other allied professions, nurses and medical teams working in this service within the Central regions hospitals.
Mou About you
You will be a highly skilled clinician holding an Allied professions Annual practicing certificate, with a minimum of 5 years' experience with knowledge of working in critical care.
You will be someone who values evidence based practice and also leadership by example. You will be cognizant of the importance of equity for patients, whanau and for your team.
You will not hold a specific clinical caseload, but may work alongside other allied profession clinicians / educators from a clinical coaching / mentoring perspective.
You will have proven coordination and quality improvement skills and outstanding communication with a solid understanding of clinical education.
E pa ana ki a tatou About us
Within the Central Region, patient care is provided at six major hospitals: Wellington Regional Hospital, Hutt Hospital, Wairarapa Hospital, Palmerston North Regional Hospital, Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers Memorial Hospital and Whanganui Hospital.
Almost all tertiary services, including intensive care services, are provided by Wellington Regional Hospital; Hutt Hospital provides the regional plastic surgery service.
Here in the Te Whatu Ora Central Region we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability and religions.
A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.
The Central Region Districts are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Maori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.
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