Registered Nurse - National Clinical Services (Remote Working)

Company Description

Summerset is the second largest retirement village operator in New Zealand. We're passionate about providing quality service to our clients and we are growing quickly, with 39+ villages from Whangarei down to Dunedin. We are proud of our dynamic work environment and an equally diverse workforce.

We are on the lookout for a passionate Registered nurse to join our National Clinical Services team. This remote working role will enable us to continue providing top quality services and provide best of life care to our residents.

The key purpose of the this remote Registered Nurse role is to provide online/video and phone remote clinical support to facility employees (primarily Caregivers or Registered Nurses). The role will be a permanent full time role covering a rotational shift pattern across morning, afternoon and night shifts.

Job Description

As a registered nurse in the NCS team you will provide remote clinical escalation pathways for villages including evidenced based and best practice clinical reviews, clinical teaching, and management of incidents, risks and events.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Provide timely, high quality clinical advice based on evidence and best practice.

• Effectively communicate assessment findings and provide advice to the in-centre team

• Provide input into a resident care plans in collaboration with the in-centre team.

• Provide coaching, education and training as indicated to other staff regarding the management of residents.

Qualifications

To be considered a suitable candidate for our role you will bring the following:

• New Zealand Registered Nurse with a current Annual Practicing Certificate.

• Minimum three years’ experience in settings relevant to older people and aged residential care.

• Trained as a preceptor or willing to undertake formal preceptor training.

Additional Information

To recognise the important work that you do for our residents, we offer many great benefits such as:

• An enthusiastic and supportive team that is fun to be part of

• Weekend rates of an additional 40 percent of the hourly rate

• Time and one half for all work or shifts over 8 hours in a day

• Health cover (if applicable), social sporting teams, meal allowances, clothing allocation and discounts at a range of suppliers plus much more

• We offer career progression and support for those looking to develop their skills further in the aged care industry.

If you, or someone you know, are strong enough to care, then we would love to hear from you. 

Due to NZ Immigration requirements, we are obliged to consider candidates that already have the right to work in NZ for this role first. Due to this we may not be able to support a visa application for this role. This role may close early due to an increased number of applications - apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment!

The safety of our residents and staff is important to us. For this reason, we require all our employees to be fully vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19 before commencing work at Summerset.