Clinical Charge Nurse

**Full-Time (40 hours a week) Permanent Senior Nursing Leadership Opportunity**

**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 in District Nursing, your focus will be on ensuring the delivery of optimal patient outcomes and supporting staff engagement and development. You will provide visible leadership and coordination of your teams on a daily basis

Community nurses provide nursing care to patients in our clinics or in patient’s homes across the central Auckland region**. **District Nurses enjoy a varied and autonomous role in the provision of care closer to home, within locality-based teams with clinics in Green Lane Clinical Centre, Pt Chevalier, and Glen Innes
- Specialised wound care, including leg ulcer assessment and treatment.
- Assistance with the management of intravenous medication, urinary and suprapubic catheters, continence issues, stoma care and injections, including rheumatic fever prophylaxis.
- ACC nursing care.
- Education and advice for clients around their healthcare needs or illness.
- A wide variety of other nursing needs including palliative care.

We welcome you to join the experience of primary care expansion over the next decade, which will include the provision of more care in the patient’s home supported by IT and care technologies, and where you will be a leader of care in the home.

**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, Community Nursing, Older Peoples Health Telehealth, Emergency Care, Acute Inpatient setting
- 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.

**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.

For further details, please refer to the position description **here**.

**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**

**Click here to view details about our recruitment process**

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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