Starship Community Nurse, Starship Child HealthPermanent – Fulltime or Part time roles available (0.6-1.0FTE)Starship Community provides responsive community-based nursing care to infants, children, young people, and families within the Auckland area.
We are able to provide home-based acute and long-term care for children recently discharged from hospital, those with medical or disability needs, alongside Paediatric and Public Health needs.
This includes complex nursing care for Well Child | Tamariki Ora infants and pre-schoolers; acute and long-term nursing care to children who are medically complex, Nurse-led clinics within low-decile schools, support for high-decile schools, and population school-based immunisation programmes for Year 7 and 8 students as well as Rheumatic Fever prevention.
Our service principles enable us to prioritise care for Maori, Pacific, Migrant, and Refugee-background families.
Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity We have permanent (fulltime or part time) roles available in our dynamic nursing team.
With the support of a multi-disciplinary team, you will be able to provide nursing care across our service specialties with the goal of eliminating health inequities.
You will experience nursing in home, school, and community settings.
Based in one of our three locality teams (Maungarei, Owairaka-Rangitoto-Orakei, Whau) working from the Greenlane Clinical Centre, you will become familiar with your Starship community nursing role through a supportive, comprehensive six-week orientation.
Together with advancing your nursing practice in the community, opportunities for professional and career development are provided.
Advanced clinical skills training, funded post-graduate education, leadership, and contribution to the pursuit of clinical excellence within Starship, New Zealand, and abroad, are opportunities which this role can offer.
As an ideal candidate, you will:
Have at least 2 years of paediatric nursing experienceBe a New Zealand Registered Nurse with a current APCHold a clean full driver's licensePossess excellent teamwork skills with an ability to work autonomously in a multi-cultural environmentDemonstrate well-developed nursing assessment and interpersonal skills, knowledge of health promotion strategies, and commitment to ongoing professional developmentCommunity experienceAuthorised vaccinatorSchool health experiencePostgraduate nursing qualification in child health or similarCurrent clinical competence in relevant place of practiceIf this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
Ko wai matou | Who are we We are part of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, 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 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.
What we can offer you:
A unique and rewarding work environment that provides a high level of job satisfactionAn opportunity to grow both as a person and as a professionalComprehensive and well-structured orientation programme with good clinical supportTo apply please click on the 'Apply' tab below, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role and attaching your updated CV and Covering Letter.
If you have any accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Anél Foord, Recruitment Consultant at ****** quoting ADHB2025SCN to discuss how we can best support your application.
Additional Information Job Field: Clinical-Nursing-Community/DistrictAuckland Central, Auckland Region, New Zealand
North Shore, Auckland Region, New Zealand
Requisition #: WDHB16679
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