Registered Nurse - Paed Haematology/oncology

Registered Nurse - Blood and Cancer Centre

Starship Child Health, Starship - New Zealand's premier children's hospital offers a permanent, full-time or part-time position for a registered nurse with recent acute nursing experience, excellent communication skills, and a passion for delivering high quality patient care to children and young people with a diagnosis of cancer.

Starship's Blood & Cancer Centre provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and long term follow-up for children and adolescents with cancer and non-malignant haematological conditions. The service also provides a comprehensive Haemopoietic Stem Cell (Bone Marrow Transplant and CORD) Transplant service for New Zealand.

The acute component of the service involves initial diagnosis and management, treatment of complications of therapy, and assessment during treatment. The chronic component includes long term follow-up of children and young people both for recurrence and late effects of therapy.

The Paediatric Blood & Cancer Centre service also works alongside The Child Cancer Foundation, Canteen, and Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand who provide support to children diagnosed with cancer and their families.

As the ideal candidate for this role you will:

• have registration with NZ Nursing Council and current APC.
• have 2+ years paediatric nursing experience in NZ.
• have a focus on caring for the wellbeing of tamariki and whānau.
• demonstrate well-developed communication, critical thinking skills, and a commitment to family centred care.

For all aspects of this role and experience/knowledge required please see the position description.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

Starship Child Health is a dedicated paediatric healthcare service and major teaching centre, providing family centred care to neonates, children, and young people throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific. Starship is a part of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora and is the only comprehensive children's hospital in New Zealand serving a population of approximately 1 million children.

To apply please click on the `Apply tab below, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role and attaching your updated CV and Covering Letter. If you have any accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Anel Foord, Recruitment Consultant at Anel.Foord@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz quoting ADHB24957 to discuss how we can best support your application.