Charge Nurse - Ward 31
- Exciting Senior Nurse opportunity
- Utilise your previous experience and work with great colleagues
- This is a permanent full-time (1.0 FTE) Monday to Friday role
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 Cardiology ward leads New Zealand in providing specialist cardiovascular nursing care based on clinical skill, research, education, and innovation. Our commitment is to the highest level of clinical care to our patients from central and Regional Auckland/Northland, as well as across the rest of New Zealand. Cardiology services that provide high quality care to patients Cardiology has both elective and acute admissions for a range of procedures and illnesses including:
- Angiography/Angioplasty
- Electrophysiology/Device procedures
- Regional Pre-operative Cardiac Surgery
- Pre-operative Valve repair and replacements, post TAVI
- Adult congenital cardiac surgery
- Heart Failure
- Endocarditis
The Charge Nurse is accountable for nursing professional and practice standards, ensuring nursing staff safely and effectively meet the clinical nursing care needs of patients and their family/whānau in the area of care they are responsible for.
This role is responsible for inpatients in a ward or department. It specifically serves the service and patient speciality populations as well as the sub-speciality of patients at Te Toka Tumai.
The Charge Nurse leads the team to model the vision and values of Te Toka Tumai and contributes to the directorate and organisational strategic direction.
For further details, please refer to the position description here.
About you
- A commitment to biculturalism
- A commitment to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori
- New Zealand nursing registration, RGON, RN BHSc (Nursing)
- Postgraduate certificate/ diploma in speciality nursing practice
- Post-Grad Dip or working Towards completion of Masters Degree
- Minimum of five years’ experience post registration in Cardiology
- Expert clinical practice
- Sound understanding of professional ethics
- Current clinical competence in relevant place of practice
- Advance quality of service skills
- Ability to critique and use research findings is the basis for practice
For more information about this role please contact Lynne Belz, Nurse Unit Manager – Cardiology Service via LynneB@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.
How to Apply
To apply please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers’ portal by the 14th November 2025. If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, or require information in an accessible format, please contact, Jeanine Taccad (Recruitment Consultant) via Jeanine.Taccad@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz to discuss how we can best support your application.
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.