Kaupapa Māori Registered Nurse

What’s on offer?‍

• $63,241 - $90,573 per annum based on experience
• Use of a pool car
• Flexible working hours (16 - 40 hours per week ideally)
• Excellent induction, ongoing professional and personal support including supervision and EAP
• Ongoing opportunity for training and education and support to complete Post Graduate Palliative Care qualifications, if you don’t already have them

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‍About the organisation

‍This Taupō based charitable trust provides quality wrap-around community based hospice and specialist palliative care services to people with progressive life limiting illness, and their whānau. Community and whānau are at the heart of this organisation.

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‍About the job‍

• Enrich the lives of patients and their whānau through holistic, compassionate and high quality community based palliative care
• Work with whānau as pou aroha to ensure the best physical, emotional/mental, and spiritual care is received before the person dies in their preferred place
• Cover a geographical region; mainly Tūrangi through to Taupō
• Provide wrap around care, symptom and pain management
• Work alongside nursing, support worker colleagues alongside local kaiawhina and community agencies
• Due to challenges of recent years, some of our whānau are presenting late to the service with complexities.
• There are lots of opportunities here to bring community organisations and agencies together to better support whānau in a kaupapa māori way.
• Requires a commitment to clinical quality and safety

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‍About you‍

• Positive and passionate about supporting whānau in the community
• A Registered Nurse with current APC
• Clinical confidence with an ability to be accountable and a love of finding solutions
• Ideally you’ll have some community nursing, palliative and / or hospice experience but we are open to nurses with a heart for whānau and kaupapa māori values
• Understanding of Tikanga and Te Reo Māori and applying that in your mahi
• Aligned to the values of Respect – Whakarangatira, Excellence – Kairangi, Trust – Whakawhirinaki, Partnership – Mahi Ngātahi and Compassion – Aroha
• Full Drivers license

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