Nurse Manager vacancies Nurse Manager, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand
10 positions, full time, permanent
Applications close 4 December 2009
Do you have a commitment to nursing and patient safety with proven leadership and management skills? Being a nurse manager at Waikato Hospital will provide you with the opportunity to combine these on a daily basis. We are looking for nurses to fill new nurse manager roles in our 10 service clusters. These nurse manager roles are part of a commitment at Waikato Hospital to focus on clinical leadership with the aim of putting the hospital into the hands of clinicians. As nurse manager, you will have responsibility for professional and business performance of nursing services in your cluster. The roles report to the newly-appointed Waikato Hospital nursing director. You need to - be passionate about nursing and patient care and truly believe you can make a difference
- strive to improve standards of performance and pay attention to detail
- have a current nursing practising certificate (APC)
plus - experience in planning, aligning resources to patient needs, managing budgets and staff
- handling quality, innovation and systems issues
- and building effective relationships.
Waikato Hospital is a 600-bed hospital in Hamilton, providing secondary services to the Waikato DHB’s population of more than 360,000 people, and is the lead secondary and tertiary provider to more than 820,000 in the central North Island. View the position descriptions for each cluster role:- Cardiovascular medicine and surgery
Cardiology, Cardiothoracic, Vascular
- Critical care
Intensive Care, High Dependency Unit
- Emergency
Emergency Department
- Internal Medicine
Neurology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Respiratory, Renal, Gastroenterology, General Medicine, Stroke
- Oncology
Oncology, Haematology, Palliative Care
| - Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics
NICU, Paediatric Medicine, Paediatric Surgery, Mothercraft Unit, Child Development Unit, Integrated Child Health Programme, Child Protection Unit
- Surgery
Neurosurgery, Urology, Burns and Plastics, ENT, Ophthalmology, General Surgery, Dermatology, Maxillofacial, Dental, Trauma
- Theatre
Theatre, Anaesthetics, Acute Pain, Sterile Services, Peri-operative
- Women’s Health
Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Family Violence, Family Friendly Programme.
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  These are new positions in a transitioning structure and will be interesting and challenging roles. A nurse in a management role combines the skill sets of management and nursing which adds value to clinical teams. These are also seen as vital leadership roles throughout the hospital. This will allow nursing to have a central focus in change management both at a service level and at the bedside for all nurses.
My role as nursing director is to lead this team of nurse managers forward and for there to be a presence for nurses at the hospital.
The Waikato Hospital nursing service is responsible for the inpatient, outpatient and some associated technical units in the hospital. Our focus is on processes, staffing and clinical quality to enable our patients to get the best possible care. Keeping the wards and nursing components of the outpatient department staffed and functioning well is a vital part of the productivity and efficiency of the whole hospital.
Suzanne Lawes, Waikato Hospital Nursing Director
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|  These newly created roles give nurses the opportunity to further influence the environment within which nursing occurs. It is not often that a chance like this comes along on such a large scale, so I encourage those who have an interest in developing the professional and organisational capability of nurses, linking these to improved patient care to consider how they could play a part in this new way of working. I encourage you to have the confidence to apply and grab the opportunity to be part of the wider clinical teams that will be making a difference to Waikato hospital.
Sue Hayward, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Waikato District Health Board
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