Starship Community Nurse,Starship Child Health
Community Nurses, Starship Child Health
- Starship - New Zealand’s premier children’s hospital
- Unique environment with a great team – No night duties!
- Permanent – Fulltime or Part time roles available (0.6-1.0FTE)
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
We have permanent (fulltime or part time) roles available in our dynamic nursing team. 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.
You will experience nursing in home, school and community settings and will become familiar with your Starship community nursing role through a supportive, comprehensive six-week orientation.
About the Service
Starship Community provide responsive community-based nursing care to infants, children, young people and families within the Auckland area. We 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. We have three locality teams (Maungarei, Owairaka-Rangitoto-Orakei, Whau) working from the Greenlane Clinical Centre.
We provide complex nursing care for Well Child | Tamariki Ora infants and pre-schoolers; acute and long term nursing care to children who are medically complex, 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.
About you
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 teamwork 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:
- Acute homecare nursing
- Community experience
- Authorised vaccinator
- School health experience
- Post graduate nursing qualification in child health or similar
- Current clinical competence in relevant place of practice
For all aspects of this role and experience/knowledge required please see the position description.
For further information about the position please contact Helen Noble, Locality Lead via email on hnoble@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 ADHB2025SCN to discuss how we can best support your application.
