District Nurse

About the organisation

‍This nationwide organisation is a leading provider of home and community-based healthcare and support. They support people to remain active, safe and independent in their homes and community. They have a great team of nurses nationwide providing district, home-based, palliative, wound care, and short-term rehab nursing care.

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‍About the role‍

• Working autonomously in the community supporting a geographical region (we try to give you a region close to where you live to reduce your daily travel time) and delivering a high-quality of clinical service to clients
• The home base is either the office in Christchurch or Kaiapoi
• You’ll mainly be undertaking wound care. This could be simple skin tears and post-op surgical wounds or complex including NPWT dressings, compression bandaging and complicated post-op wounds.
• In addition, catheter care (IDC and SPC), medication administration, general health assessments as well as palliative and end-of-life care
• Ensuring compliance with referrer instruction, GP orders and established policies and procedures
• You will work with an inspiring and supportive manager who cares about you professionally and personally. She is a wound care specialist so a fantastic internal resource to develop your skills and knowledge in this area.

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 ‍Hours of work‍

• We need full and part-time nurses - talk to us about preferred hours.
• Rotating roster across seven days with shifts mostly between 8 am and 4.30 pm
• Evening shifts are from midday to 8.30 pm and cover the insulin run
• There is an evening on-call component - typically for blocked catheters or palliative care clients.
• There is a social roster in operation with four requests per month for days off and a desire to accommodate you as much as possible.

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About you

This position is ideal for a Registered Nurse with strong surgical / wound experience. In addition:

• Good clinical assessment skills
• Confident in your abilities, but not afraid to seek out help if you need it
• An excellent communicator – able to develop trust and relationships quickly and easily
• Able to work autonomously and independently
• Adaptable and flexible. Able to change priorities and adapt your schedule with ease
• Excellent documentation skills and technically savvy - you'll be working online and offline remotely with a laptop and phone while on the go
• Full Driver’s License
• We are open to your vaccination status

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What’s in it for you?

• Awesome Manager and a great team. A new Regional Manager brings energy and business acumen. Lots of exciting things going on, including innovations and new funding streams.
• Structured and comprehensive training and induction
• Competitive hourly rates (these have recently increased, and another round of negotiations is imminent), penal rates, a vehicle for work use, laptop, phone
• Professional development opportunities