Clinical Nurse Coach

**About the job**:
***Two permanent part-time 0.5 FTE positions available, rostered and rotating shifts
- Join our clinical education team at the point of care in this new influential education role, supporting, coaching, and developing nurses to deliver safe, high-quality care
- Fantastic benefits, easy parking, great team

**About Us**:
Braemar Hospital is a prestigious private surgical hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand, dedicated to supporting nearly 200 credentialed specialists, including surgeons from many parts of the world, working at the highest level in their fields.

Excellence is at our core, and with highly sophisticated technology and facilities and our highly skilled team working across nine operating theatres and two endoscopy suites, we support a full range of surgical specialties and medical procedures.

We are known for our innovation and the five-star experience we provide to our patients, specialists, and visitors every day, and we recognise and value our people for the outstanding commitment and contribution they make to deliver this experience.

**The Opportunity**:
We are currently seeking two Clinical Nurse Coach - Inpatient Ward.

Reporting to the Nurse Advisor: Clinical Education & PDRP, the Clinical Nurse Coach - Inpatient Ward works in a supernumerary capacity, at the point of care in the Inpatient Ward providing a safe, proactive, welcoming learning environment that encourages and supports development of clinical knowledge and skills.

Responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to:

- **clinical induction**, facilitating structured new employee orientation, in collaboration with preceptors, Charge Nurses, and other members of the team.
- **preceptor/learning support,** coaching new and existing nurses to consolidate ongoing practice learning on identified knowledge and skill gaps to develop confidence, competence to become highly functional and flexible Inpatient Ward nurses.
- **clinical skills development**, providing hands-on, just in time clinical support, guidance, to new and existing nurses across all aspects care delivery in the Inpatient Ward.
- **mandatory training** - facilitating competency certification, and skills verification in partnership with specific topic link/resource people.
- **safe practice**, working alongside Inpatient Ward nurses in direct clinical care delivery promoting evidence-based practice, role modelling excellent nursing practice to support clinical decision making and professional development.

To be successful in this role:
**Essential**
- Current registration and Registered Nurse annual practising certificate with Nursing Council of New Zealand.
- A minimum of five years of experience as a Registered Nurse in a surgical ward setting in New Zealand.
- Proven teaching and coaching abilities at the point of care, and ability to demonstrate patient care management skills across multiple surgical specialties.
- Current proficient level or above nursing portfolio achieved via a Nursing Council of New Zealand approved Professional Development Recognition Programme (PDRP).
- Preceptorship and Assessor’s course completion with clear evidence of precepting with influence on patient safety.
- A genuine passion for continuous learning and development, including an ability to inspire others to grow and improve.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work within a team and establish meaningful relationships.
- Approachable, proactive with a positive attitude, excellent facilitation, and coordination great time management skills.
- Commitment to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

**Desired**
- Post Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Adult Teaching/Education, working towards or willing to work towards.
- Skills in clinical development and evaluation of training.

**Working for Us**:
Let us care for you, so that you can care for others.

Working at Braemar Hospital provides you with access to a number of great benefits, including:

- Competitive remuneration;
- Sophisticated facilities and equipment at your fingertips;
- Our Executive Chef and his team fully cater morning and afternoon tea for all employees, and if you’re feeling like a restaurant-quality lunchwe heavily subsidise this for you;
- Our leaders prioritise and promote employee wellness with programmes, initiatives, leave and every day support;
- We offer fruit baskets, we have an annual shut-down period to make sure our team get a proper break over Christmas where possible, we provide annual flu vaccinations and we support an array of other wellbeing initiatives throughout the year;
- We have additional benefits including access to a retail discount programme, long service recognition and employee parking within easy walking distance to our campus;
- We also support ongoing development with access to professional development, internal development opportunities, and professional celebrations throughout the year.