Charge Nurse - Ward 31 Exciting Senior Nurse opportunity to hone your skills! Utilize your previous experience and work with great colleagues! Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity Our Cardiology ward leads New Zealand in providing specialist cardiovascular nursing care based on clinical skill, research, education, and innovation. Our commitment is to the highest level of clinical care to our patients from central and Regional Auckland/Northland, as well as across the rest of New Zealand. Cardiology services that provide high quality care to patients Cardiology has both elective and acute admissions for a range of procedures and illnesses including: Angiography/Angioplasty Electrophysiology/Device procedures Regional Pre-operative Cardiac Surgery Pre-operative Valve repair and replacements Adult congenital cardiac surgery Heart Failure Endocarditis The Charge Nurse is accountable for nursing professional and practice standards, ensuring nursing staff safely and effectively meet the clinical nursing care needs of patients and their family/whanau in the area of care they are responsible for. This role is responsible for inpatients in a ward or department. It specifically serves the service and patient speciality populations as well as the sub-speciality of patients at Te Toka Tumai. The Charge Nurse leads the team to model the vision and values of Te Toka Tumai and contributes to the directorate and organisational strategic direction. This is a permanent full-time (1.0 FTE) Monday to Friday role! You will also be joining a great team environment and working with a dedicated team. For further details, please refer to the position description . Nga Pukenga Motuhake | Important Skills A commitment to biculturalism A commitment to achieving equitable outcomes for Maori New Zealand nursing registration, RGON, RN BHSc (Nursing) Postgraduate certificate/ diploma in speciality nursing practice Working Towards completion of Masters Degree Minimum of five years' experience post registration in relevant nursing specialty Expert clinical practice Sound understanding of professional ethics Masters degree or Post-Grad Dip. Current clinical competence in relevant place of practice Advance quality of service skills Ability to critique and use research findings is the basis for practice For more information about this role please contact Lynne Belz, Nurse Unit Manager – Cardiology Service via Ko wai matou | Our Organisation We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. 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. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children's Hospital, located in central Auckland. We are part of , the overarching organisation for New Zealand's national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels. We are also an Accredited Employer with Immigration NZ (Please visit for more information if you will be needing a Work Visa) We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngati Whatua 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 nga painga o tenei mahi mou | Why you will enjoy 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.
