• Make a difference. Work with palliative specialists to deliver holistic care
• Tailored approach to your learning and development 
• Part time position 0.5 FTE, in our North Shore Hospice team

Mōu | For you

Our Harbour Hospice culture is built upon trust, connection, care and professional interactions that are delivered with our values at the core. Our values are more than words. They are the foundation of every interaction we have with patients, family, whānau, our community and each other. We welcome applications from all backgrounds who share our values of aroha (compassionate), tautikanga (professional), and mō te katoa (inclusive).

As a Community Registered Nurse, you’ll be an important part of a professional and expert multidisciplinary team who collaborate and take pride in patient-centred, holistic care. You will be encouraged to embrace opportunities for growth, reflect on what has worked well and what could be improved, and share your learnings. We will support and provide tools for your wellbeing and will encourage working hours that make room for life outside work.

You will also get:

• In-depth and tailored onboarding and ongoing development, to suit your individual level of experience and expertise
• One hour per month of paid professional supervision
• A competitive hourly rate and relevant allowances. Higher hourly rates based on achieving current PDRP
• Access to pool car for working in the community, and free onsite parking
• Laptop and mobile phone to allow you to work effectively while in the community

Best of all, you’ll join an organisation where your work matters.

Mō te tūnga | About the role

As a Registered Nurse in the community team at Kārohirohi North Shore Harbour Hospice, you’ll visit tūroro (patients), families and whānau in their homes to deliver specialist palliative nursing care. You will provide symptom and pain management and end-of-life care for tūroro with a wide range of life limiting illness diagnoses, who are at the end stages of their disease trajectory.

This is a part time position working 5 shifts per fortnight. On call hours are required to cover evenings and weekends. Our hybrid working model allows you some flexibility with working from home and the office.

He kōrero mōu| About you

You are a Registered Nurse with the New Zealand Nursing Council and you hold a current NZ Annual Practising Certificate.

To be considered you must:

• Have worked in a hospice or a palliative care environment as a Registered Nurse. 
• Hold a current and valid New Zealand work visa.
• Have a full, clean NZ driver’s licence.
• Have a genuine interest in and desire to further develop in specialist palliative care in the community
• Be committed to achieving Competent Level PDRP within 24 months of employment
• Be adaptable, able to work autonomously and communicate collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary team

Ko mātou tēnei | About us

Harbour Hospice is one of the largest hospices in Aotearoa and has been caring for tūroro and their family and whānau for more than 40 years. Every day we care for close to 400 people across the North Shore, Hibiscus Coast and Warkworth/Wellsford regions, supporting them at home, in one of our two inpatient units, or in community programmes offered at each of our three sites. Our specialist services, given free of charge, include medical care, spiritual, cultural, psychological and social support, physiotherapy, occupational and complementary therapy, social activities and more. We are a progressive organisation that puts each patient, whānau and family, our community and our people, at the heart of everything.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

We encourage you share your true self in your CV and cover letter. Tell us what your motivations are and how your work and life experience align with our core values.

Please reach out to Peggy Newton, Recruitment Specialist via peggy.newton@harbourhospice.org.nz with any questions, or to arrange a kōrero (chat) before you apply, if that is what you need from this process.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and pre-employment checks including health screening where applicable, are part of our recruitment process.