Nurse Educator, Community, Starship Child Health

**Nurse Educator - Starship Community**
- Senior Nursing role - Opportunity for professional growth
- No night shifts or weekends
- Permanent, Fulltime role

**Come be part of our Team**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

We are seeking a senior registered nurse with strong leadership and advanced nursing skills in paediatrics. This role involves working as part of a multidisciplinary team to optimise the quality and effectiveness of service. In this role you will provide professional and clinical leadership, patient care co-ordination, education and clinical teaching to staff.

It is important that you can work autonomously, prioritise workload and work as part of a supportive senior nursing team committed to effective/evidenced based nursing practice.The successful applicant will have extensive nursing experience and be practicing at a senior level.

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.

**To be considered for this role you must-**
- Be a registered nurse and have registration with NZ Nursing Council
- Maintain safe cultural practice and develop your cultural knowledge
- Have at least 5 years nursing experience
- preferably community
- Have excellent supervisory, communication and problem-solving skills are essential in order to relate to and work with staff and patients at all levels.
- Have project and quality experience
- Interact effectively with a multi-disciplinary Team and Service members

Ideally, you will hold or would be working towards a Post-Graduate Certificate or Diploma in specialty nursing practice.

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

For further information about the position please contact jasmine Walton, Starship Community

**Ko wai mātou | Who are we**

Te Toka Tumai Auckland is part of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s National Health Service. 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 and is the only comprehensive children’s hospital in New Zealand serving a population of approximately 1 million children. Auckland City Hospital is NZ’s largest public tertiary hospital which has strong ties with University of Auckland and provides extensive teaching and training opportunities.

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

**What we can offer you**:

- A comprehensive orientation package backed up with strong support from the senior nursing team.
- A unique and rewarding work environment that provides a high level of job satisfaction
- An opportunity to grow both as a person and as a professional while working with a very friendly and fun team
- On-going career progression opportunities.
- 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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**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply