Clinical Charge Nurse

Work on the edge of community innovation in Te Toka Tumai's Hospital in the Home (HiTH)
- Full-Time (40 hours a week) Permanent Senior Nursing Leadership Opportunity

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.
Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
Do you want to lead and be part of our dynamic team working on the edge of community innovation? As the Clinical Charge Nurse in Intermediate Care, your focus will be on ensuring the delivery of optimal patient outcomes, within our virtual hospital wards. You will provide visible leadership and operational coordination of your teams on a daily basis.
Intermediate Care comprises of a 60 bed virtual hospital ward which delivers hospital-level acute health care services, offering a safe alternative option to hospital care, utilising our Interim Care Programme within Aged Residential Care (20 beds) and HiTH (40 beds) within the patients home.
As a virtual ward within Te Toka Tumai, clinical safety is assured with expansion of the multidisciplinary team to include:

- Medical oversight
- Nursing, including Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialists and RN's
- Allied Health, including Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist and Practice Supervisor
- Kaiārahi Nāhi and Oranga Coordinators who are embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi actions, delivering equity focused care and providing holistic care beyond the current diagnosis
- Pacific Health Clinical Nurse Specialists who are delivering equity focused care delivery
- Community Liaison Clinicians who in-reach across inpatient settings to facilitate discharging to any of the appropriate community pathways
- Social Worker who addresses the social determinants of health of patients and whānau

Within HiTH the team can visit patients up to twice a day and have the required skill set to administer infusions and medications, perform blood draws, undertake point-of-care testing, conduct virtual consultations, address unmet social needs, provide in-home rehabilitation and educate patients and whānau to improve self-directed care.
The Intermediate Care team supports whānau choice and timely hospital discharge. It delivers 'Person and whānau-centred care which empowers everyone to manage their own health and wellbeing, giving people, their carer's and whānau meaningful control.
For further details, please refer to the position description here.
Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills
- Will have a Post Graduate degree and at least 5 years' experience as a registered Nurse, particularly within Primary Care, Telehealth, Emergency Care, Acute Inpatient setting or a “Hospital in the Home” service delivery model.
- Your strong clinical decision making, innovation and communication skills are imperative to be successful in this role.
- Be a forward-thinking nurse leader who is flexible, resilient and can manage a busy workload would be beneficial.

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.
For more information on what we offer, please click here.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply
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The remuneration for this position is covered by a collective agreement (NZ Nursing MECA)

**Salary range based on experience**: $97 699.00 - $107 341p.a