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Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay

Associate Clinical Nurse Manager

Hastings

FULL TIME

November 6, 2024

Hastings Hospital, Ngā Rau Rākau Acute Mental Health Inpatient Facility
80 hours per fortnight (1.0 FTE)
Permanent

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

We have a vacancy in Ngā Rau Rākau our acute Mental Health Inpatient facility for a Associate Clinical Nurse Manager. This is a full-time permanent position for a senior registered nurse with experience in Mental Health looking to take on their next challenge.

About the Team/Service/ Location

Ngā Rau Rākau has 23 beds and provides services to the wider region including Wairoa and Central Hawke’s Bay. Our Intensive Mental Health Service provides assessment, care and treatment to people experiencing acute mental illness across an acute inpatient facility and a step-down facility. We have a dynamic forward-thinking team who rise to the challenges in their day-to-day work.

There is no doubt that our Nurse’s in Mental Health are charting the course for the rest of the country. Hawke’s Bay is a region that makes our lofty goals really achievable – the populations big enough to give scale to the initiatives, but small enough to allow for penetration. It’s also a region with a number of communities who really need our help, and Health New Zealand -Te Whatu Ora, Te Matau a Māui, Hawke’s Bay is absolutely determined to improve the lives of those residents

About you

We are seeking applications from suitably qualified professionals - with the following skills and attributes:

Be a New Zealand registered nurse with leadership experience and hold a current practising certificate.
At least five years’ experience working with people with mental health conditions within a mental health service
Have a current valid driver’s licence
Ability to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary framework
Proven leadership skills
Work within ethical guidelines and best practice standards
Ability to provide high quality and responsive assessment, identify goals and treatment objectives with consumers
Actively coordinate the ward environment
A great team player and have a sense of humour who is flexible and open to working in new and different ways
Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth
Experience in projects / initiatives which give effect to Te Tiriti principals and frameworks, and the application of Mātauranga Māori and Kaupapa Māori approaches, particularly as they apply in healthcare settings.

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

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