Starship Community Nurse,Starship Child Health

Haere mai, Welcome to Starship Community.

Our service has been transformed to provide responsive community-based nursing care to infants, children, young people and families within the Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) 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. With the support of a multi-disciplinary team, you will be able to provide nursing care across our service specialties with the goal of eliminating health inequities.

Launching from an Acute, Long-term, Well Child|Tamariki Ora or School-based context, you will experience nursing in the hospital, home, school and community settings. Based in one of our three locality teams (Maungarei, Owairaka-Rangitoto-Orakei, Whau) working from the Greenlane Clinical Centre, you will become familiar with your Starship community through a supportive, comprehensive six week orientation.

Together with advancing your nursing practice in the community, opportunities for professional and career development are provided. Advanced clinical skills training, funded post-graduate education, leadership and contribution to the pursuit of clinical excellence within Starship, New Zealand and abroad, are opportunities which this role can offer.

As an ideal candidate, you will:

• Have at least 2 years of paediatrics nursing experience
• Be a New Zealand Registered Nurse with a current APC
• Hold a clean full driver’s license.
• Possess excellent team work skills with an ability to work autonomously in a multi-cultural environment
• Demonstrate well-developed nursing assessment and interpersonal skills, knowledge of health promotion strategies and commitment to on-going professional development.

Desirable

• Community experience
• Authorised vaccinator
• School health experience
• Post graduate nursing qualification in well child/ tamariki ora or similar

Please click here to view the position description.

To know more about the role and to have a confidential initial discussion, please contact Fiona Howie,Starship Community- Locality Lead via email on FHowie@adhb.govt.nz or call on 021364015.

To apply please click on the ‘Apply’ tab below and submit your application online attaching your updated CV and Covering Letter. If you have any queries about this opportunity or accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Joshua Gounder, Recruitment Consultant on JoshuaGoun@adhb.govt.nz or mob: 021 394 701, quoting ref #ADHB11552A to discuss how we can best support your application.

Closing date is 14th November 2021.

Nga mihi, Thank you, for your interest in applying to join the team of Starship Community 

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