Paediatric Cardiac Speciality Nurse
Paediatric Specialty Clinical Nurse , Paediatric Cardiac Operating Rooms, Starship Child Health
- Starship - New Zealand’s premier children’s hospital
- Exciting New Opportunity!
- 2 year fixed term , 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 Cardiac Services has a New Role opportunity for an experienced Paediatric cardiac Theatre Nurse to lead the clinical activities and care coordination of paediatric cardiac patients within the OR setting
As an experienced paediatric cardiac nurse, you will have responsibility for improving the quality of professional nursing practice and safeguarding high standards of care within the Paediatric Cardiac Operating Theatres
You will report to the Paediatric Cardiac Charge Nurse and support the delivery of Transformational change within the Paediatric Cardiac Perioperative 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 support 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 5+ years of Operating Room experience with an extensive range of Theatre Nursing skills. Expert knowledge and experience in cardiac surgery is essential
- Post Graduate qualification/masters of nursing preferred
- Can support Transformational Change
- Ability to educate, upskill and support new members of the paediatric cardiac team to scrub and circulate
- 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 Michelle Kanth, Recruitment Consultant at michelle.kanth@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz quoting ADHB23784 to discuss how we can best support your application.