Clinical Coach - Community Nursing

• Use your community nursing expertise to grow the confidence, capability and clinical practice of our nursing workforce
• Permanent part-time position, 0.4 FTE

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced registered nurse to join Community Nursing as a Clinical Coach. This role is ideal for a skilled clinician who enjoys developing others and wants to make a lasting contribution to the capability of our nursing workforce.

Working alongside nurses in day-to-day practice, you will provide practical coaching, role modelling and constructive feedback. Your support will be particularly valuable for nurses who are new to Community Nursing, transitioning into the service or consolidating their knowledge and specialty skills.

In partnership with the Charge Nurse Manager, Nurse Educator and Clinical Charge Nurses, you will help deliver the service education plan, identify individual learning needs and create meaningful development opportunities that strengthen safe and consistent clinical practice.

You will support nurses to strengthen comprehensive assessment, care planning, clinical competencies, critical thinking and timely escalation when a patient's condition or circumstances change. Through culturally safe coaching, you will promote equitable, person- and whanau-centred care across our diverse communities.

This is a hands-on role that includes working rostered shifts alongside identified nurses and sharing a clinical caseload. This approach enables coaching to occur in real time, connecting learning directly with the realities and complexities of community practice.

For further details, please refer to the position description here.

About you

• New Zealand registration as a Registered Nurse and a current Annual Practising Certificate.
• Strong recent community nursing experience and confidence working autonomously with changing priorities and complex care needs. Experience in community nursing would be an advantage.
• A proven ability to coach, precept or mentor nurses, using constructive feedback to build confidence, accountability and safe clinical practice.
• Preceptorship and assessor certification, or an equivalent qualification or demonstrated experience in clinical coaching and assessment.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, together with a clear commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, equity, cultural safety and continuous professional development.
• A valid, clean New Zealand full driver's licence.

For more information about this role please contact Lerma De Belen (Charge Nurse Manager) via Lerma.Debelen@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz

Working at Health New Zealand

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.

How to Apply

To apply please click “apply now.” If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, or require information in an accessible format, please contact, Jeanine Taccad, Recruitment Consultant via Jeanine.Taccad@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz to discuss how we can best support your application.

We’ll be reviewing applications and conducting interviews as they come in, so the position may close before the listed deadline. If you're interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.