Associate Nurse Unit Manager,picu

1 day ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Auckland District Health Board Full time

**Associate Nurse Unit Manager - Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Starship Child Health**
- New Zealand’s premier children’s hospital
- Permanent, Fulltime Senior Nursing Leadership Opportunity
- Career pathway for senior nurses

**Ko wai mātou | Who are we**

We are Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, 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.

Starship Child Health is a dedicated paediatric healthcare service and major teaching centre, providing family centred care to neonates, children and young people throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific. Starship is a part of Te Toka Tumai | Auckland City Hospital and is the only comprehensive children’s hospital in New Zealand serving a population of approximately 1 million children.

Starship's Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is the only dedicated 22 bed paediatric intensive care/high dependency care unit in NZ. We support all inpatient medical and surgical services and provide care to children from around NZ who require respiratory support for more than 24 hours. Starship is expanding its PICU capacity as it is consistently facing a shortage of beds and therefore needs an Associate Nurse Unit Manager.

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

This newly created role is a senior nursing role and is responsible for leading and managing people, systems, processes and resources that facilitate efficient and effective service delivery and for ensuring a safe and expected standard of patient care.

The role provides clinical and nursing leadership and management to ensure the effective day-to-day operation of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and contributes to the delivery of directorate objectives, nursing and organisational strategy.

As Associate Nurse Unit Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the provision of quality nursing care, education and workforce development and daily operations that ensure patient flow through from PICU into the ward. You will work collaboratively with the Nursing Leadership Group to ensure care providers deliver patient and family/whanau centred care that is of the highest standard.

Alongside the Nursing Leadership Group you will be accountable for overseeing nursing professional and practice standards ensuring that nursing staff safely and effectively meet the clinical nursing care needs of patients and their family/whanau.

You will have a minimum of five years Intensive Care experience, proven leadership in a Charge Nurse or similar span of control role with post graduate qualifications.

As the ideal person for this role you will have:

- Excellent Leadership skills and ability to think critically
- Proven clinical competence and knowledge of quality improvement processes and principles
- Maintain quality, ensure care providers and delivery systems meet quality standards and introduce accurate and effective metrics which will provide assurance of outcomes
- Expert communication skills, proven interpersonal and inter departmental skills
- Ability to function in a complex, pressured environment
- Have excellent supervisory and problem solving skills in order to relate to and work with children, whanau and staff at all levels
- An innovator with ability to manage change at a local level
- Flexibility, adaptability, resilience and demonstrates Te Whatu Ora values

For all aspects of this role and experience/knowledge required please see the position description.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**

To be successful you will:

- Have RGON, RN, BHSc (Nursing)
- Be legally entitled to work in New Zealand
- Have Postgraduate diploma in specialty nursing practice
- Have minimum 5 years’ experience post registration
- Have change and financial management experience
- Work towards completing a Masters Degree
- Previous Charge Nurse / Clinical Charge Nurse experience

Desired skills:

- Management training
- Project Management qualifications or experience

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

**He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here**

**What we can offer you**:

- A unique and rewarding work environment
- An opportunity to grow both as a person and as a professional
- Continuing Professional Development entitlement
- Financial recognition of senior nursing levels as per nationally-agreed multi-employer collective agreements

For more information on what we offer, please click here.

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