Registered Nurse Rangatahi Adolescent Inpatient Service (RRAIS)

Registered Nurse Rangatahi Adolescent Inpatient Service (RRAIS)

This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team at the Regional Rangatahi Adolescent Inpatient Service (RRAIS), based at Kenepuru Hospital. The Rangatahi Unit is a 12 bedded mental health acute unit that provides a service for adolescents who are experiencing an acute episode of mental illness. RRAIS is one of three adolescent inpatient services in New Zealand. It is a regional service for the lower North Island providing for adolescents from the Wellington region up to and including Gisborne.

You will be joining a service that is committed to high standards of practice and supports on-going professional development for staff through regular supervision, an excellent professional development and recognition programme (PDRP), regular in-service training and support towards external education. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical skills on a shift by shift basis. The focus is on delivering individualised, evidence based and multi-disciplinary interventions within an inpatient setting, that are holistic, recovery focused, culturally respectful and promote wellbeing and independence.

We are seeking Registered nurses who are enthusiastic, innovative, passionate about youth and committed to working alongside youth and their whanau. We want to hear from you if: You feel you can make a difference. You have lots of energy and an ability to think on your feet. You want a job that provides variety and no two days are the same. You want to be paid to have fun whilst supporting our most vulnerable youth on their recovery journey. You are keen to learn from the young people and be part of a fantastic passionate team. Registration with Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ). A current Annual Practicing Certificate (APC) and scope appropriate to place of work.

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