Nurse Specialist,adult Community Services

** **Fixed-Term Part time Role**
- ** **Senior Nursing position**
- ** **Be part of an amazing team and develop your specialist skills**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**
Are you after great work life balance with no night shifts, have excellent clinical assessment skills, wish to expand your knowledge and be part of a passionate, high functioning nursing team within the community, where no two days are the same? If so then Intermediate Care is the place for you which has a role to offer as a Nurse Specialist

The Intermediate Care Team is part of the Community and Long-term Conditions Directorate, which provides an intensive, short term multidisciplinary service for adult patients both within their own homes and/or Age-Related Residential Care facilities (ARRC). Our aim is to keep patients out of hospital by either preventing them being admitted or assisting to get them out into the community earlier and provide care within the home.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**
If you are a level 4 nurse with experience in the community, emergency departments or primary health care organisations, then this maybe the role you are looking for. It would be preferable to be working towards or have some relevant post graduate education. The role includes 8-hour rostered shifts covering a 7 day service between the hours of 0730-2200 within the community (Monday to Sunday).

Being a Nurse Specialist within Intermediate Care involves:

- Working within a multidisciplinary team of health professionals and having the privilege of working with patients within their own environment.
- Mentoring and leading staff through both direct and indirect patient care.
- Involved in the development of a service and contributes to the development of interdisciplinary standards of practice and evidence-based change.
- Having advanced clinical assessment skills.
- Nursing and Allied health input that supports the transition from hospital to home.
- Supporting our Interim Care patients.
- Supporting the acute care needs of people in the community to help prevent further crisis and/or deterioration in their condition.
- Holistic patient centred care.
- Support the improvement of the integration of community care models.

**Ko wai mātou | 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 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 are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua 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 ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | 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.

Our team will provide a thorough orientation as well as good support and training to give you the confidence to carry out your role.

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

**If this sounds like an opportunity you would like to explore, then we would love to hear from you**

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply**

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