Enrolled Nurse Transit Lounge

TAU00884Enrolled Nurse (EN)
Transit Lounge
Tauranga Hospital
Bay of Plenty District Health Board
0.5 FTE (40 hours per fortnight)
Would you like an exciting new opportunity?
Are you an experienced EN with a passion for patient care and discharge planning?
The Transit / Discharge Lounge at Tauranga Hospital provides a comfortable, safe environment for patients who are waiting for their discharge procedures to be completed. It is a fast-paced unit with high client turnover. You will be working in partnership with staff across all the acute departments to assist in facilitating patients' timely discharge from hospital.
The ideal candidate requires excellent organisational and communication skills. You will also require current registration with the NZ Nursing Council and recent acute care experience in Medical and/ or Surgical nursing.You will work in a team with an Registered Nurse (RN), EN and Health Care Assistant (HCA) per shift. You must be comfortable working under the direction and delegation of the RN, and alongside HCAs and volunteers, to ensure evidence based clinical care is provided.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Enrolled Nurse with excellent coordination skills to join our team. The transit lounge operates Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day presently 08.30 / 09.00 to 17.00 / 17.30 although some flexibility will be required.
At BOPDHB, our values of Compassion, All-one-team, Responsive and Excellence are at the centre of everything we do. We use values-based recruitment to help us recruit people who share our values, as we know this makes a positive difference to job satisfaction and the experience of our patients and their families/whanau.