Charge Nurse - Paediatric Cardiac Operating Rooms

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Nursing
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Te Toka Tumai | Auckland
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ADHB22988 Requisition #

Charge Nurse, Paediatric Cardiac Operating Rooms, Starship Child Health

  • Starship - New Zealand’s premier children’s hospital
  • Exciting New Opportunity!
  • Permanent, full-time position available

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

About the role

Our Paediatric Perioperative services has a New Role opportunity for a passionate, Experienced Perioperative Nurse to lead the management of clinical activities for the Paediatric Cardiac speciality within our Operating Rooms and to provide Dynamic transformational leadership as we develop the paediatric cardiac service.

About the Team

Our Paediatric Operating Rooms at Starship Child Health provides Acute Emergency Trauma and elective Surgical procedures in the paediatric specialties of General, Complex Neonatal, Thoracic, Urology, Endoscopy, Oncology, ORL, head and Neck, Dental, Spinal, Orthopaedics, Sarcoma, Plastics and cardiac including paediatric cardiac transplant.

This New role will Manage the Paediatric Cardiac and Adult Congenital Theatres across two directorates. Exceptional multidisciplinary interpersonal skills are needed to ensure the smooth clinical efficiency of the service and shared coordination of staffing resources across two Theatre Suites. This is an exciting time of change and opportunity to deliver a mokopuna and whanau centric paediatric cardiac service

About you

As the ideal person for this role, you will:

  • Either have or be eligible for registration with NZ Nursing Council.
  • Be an experienced Perioperative Nurse with 3+ years of Operating Room experience with an extensive range of Theatre Nursing skills. Expert knowledge and experience in cardiac surgery preferred
  • Post Graduate qualification/masters of nursing preferred
  • Can Lead Transformational Change
  • Dynamic Leadership skills that can deliver strategic vision for the service
  • Be able to provide senior clinical support, expertise, Nursing knowledge and leadership to your team to ensure quality patient care.
  • Have well-developed communication, critical thinking skills and a commitment to Mokopuna and Whanau centred care
  • Commitment to improving Maori health outcomes and embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  • Ability to develop collaborative working partnerships across a multidisciplinary team
  • Have a strong commitment to quality healthcare

For all aspects of this role and experience/knowledge required please see the Position Description.

To discuss this role further please contact Theatre Manager, Ngaire Murray on ngaire@adhb.govt.nz

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

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 Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora and is the only comprehensive children’s hospital in New Zealand serving a population of approximately 1 million children.

How to apply

We’ll be reviewing applications and conducting interviews as they come in, so the position may close before the listed deadline. If you're interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

To apply please click on the ‘Apply’ tab below, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role and attaching your updated CV and Covering Letter.

If you have any accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Anél Foord, Recruitment Consultant at Anel.Foord@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz quoting ADHB22988 to discuss how we can best support your application.

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