Starship Community Nurse,Starship Child Health

at  Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland

COMMUNITY NURSES, STARSHIP CHILD HEALTH, AUCKLAND

• Unique environment with a great team
• No night duties!
• Permanent and Fixed Term Roles available – part time or fulltime
  Starship Community has been transformed to provide 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; 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.

NGA PŪKENGA MOTUHAKE | IMPORTANT SKILLS

As an ideal candidate, you will:

• Have at least 2 years of paediatrics nursing experience
• Be a New Zealand Registered Nurse with a current APC
• Hold a clean full driver’s license.
• Possess excellent team work skills with an ability to work autonomously in a multi-cultural environment
• Demonstrate well-developed nursing assessment and interpersonal skills, knowledge of health promotion strategies and commitment to on-going professional development.

Desirable:

• Acute homecare nursing
• Community experience
• Authorised vaccinator
• School health experience
• Post graduate nursing qualification in child health or similar
• Current clinical competence in relevant place of practice

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Please refer the Job description for details