About Us
Braemar Hospital is a prestigious private surgical hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand, dedicated to supporting nearly 200 credentialed specialists, across nine operating theatres and two endoscopy suites, and providing a full range of surgical specialities and medical procedures.
Our hospital exists, quite simply, to make lives better. We know the right experience at Braemar Hospital can improve how patients and their whānau feel, and how they live, even when there’s a long journey to full recovery. To see patients leave Braemar with a new lease on life makes our efforts worthwhile.
The service we deliver at Braemar Hospital, and the profit that generates, enables our owner, the Braemar Charitable Trust, to support our community to live better lives through funding surgeries, health-related academic scholarships, medical research, and other health-related initiatives across the Waikato.
Care and excellence are at our core. We are well-known for investing in highly sophisticated technology, equipment, and facilities to enable our highly skilled team to deliver quality, safe patient outcomes. We also invest heavily in developing a world-leading organisational culture to attract and retain the very best talent because we know the critical role our team play in surgical excellence.
The Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Clinical Nurse Coach for Operating Theatres, working rostered and rotating shifts.
Reporting to the Nurse Advisor, Clinical Education & PDRP, the Clinical Nurse Coach works in a supernumerary capacity at the point of care, providing a safe, proactive and welcoming learning environment that encourages and supports development of clinical knowledge and skills.
Responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to:
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clinical induction: facilitating structured new employee orientation, in collaboration with preceptors, Clinical Nurse Leads, the Associate Theatre Managers, and other members of the team.
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preceptor/learning support: coaching new and existing nurses to consolidate ongoing practice learning on identified knowledge and skill gaps to develop confidence and competence to become highly functional and flexible operating theatre nurses.
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clinical skills development: providing hands-on, just-in-time clinical support and guidance, to new and existing nurses across all aspects of care delivery in the operating theatres.
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mandatory training: facilitating competency certification, and skills verification in partnership with specific topic link/resource people, conducting train-the-trainer sessions for relevant areas of mandatory training.
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safe practice: working alongside operating theatre nurses in direct clinical care delivery promoting evidence-based practice, role modelling excellent theatre nursing practice to support clinical decision making and professional development.
To be successful in this role
Essential
- Current registration and Registered Nurse annual practising certificate with Nursing Council of New Zealand.
- A minimum of five years of experience as a Registered Nurse in the operating theatre setting in New Zealand.
- Proven teaching and coaching abilities at the point of care, and ability to demonstrate patient care management skills across multiple surgical specialties.
- Current proficient level or above nursing portfolio achieved via a Nursing Council of New Zealand-approved Professional Development Recognition Programme (PDRP).
- Preceptorship and Assessor’s course completion with clear evidence of precepting with influence on patient safety.
- A genuine passion for continuous learning and development, including an ability to inspire others to grow and improve.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work within a team and establish meaningful relationships.
- Being approachable and proactive with a positive attitude.
- Excellent facilitation, coordination and time management skills.
- Commitment to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Desired
- Post Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Adult Teaching/Education, or willing to work towards.
- Skills in clinical development and evaluation of training.
Working for Us
Choosing to work at Braemar Hospital means choosing to live the Braemar Way. Our ‘BCOMPassionate’ principles are our North Star, and we know when our people and culture line up behind the Braemar Way, we become unbeatable.
In addition to competitive remuneration, working at Braemar Hospital provides you with access to a number of great benefits, including:
- We provide morning and afternoon tea daily, and we have delicious seasonal fruit delivered three times a week across the hospital.
- We heavily subsidise restaurant-quality meals which you can order for lunch and dinner.
- We have an annual summer shutdown where we close the hospital and ensure our whole team have some down time.
- Once you hit five years’ service at Braemar, we increase your annual holidays accrual to five weeks per year.
- We offer access to our retail and experience discount platforms so you can access great local discounts.
- We provide a parental leave top-up benefit if you’re heading off on parental leave.
- We offer limited free parking on site, a secure bike storage shed, electric vehicle chargers, and we are on a main public transport bus route.
- We provide a pretty special Wellness initiative each year.
- You’ll have access to a Financial Advisor to help support with your personal finances, free of charge.
- We offer Vitae support which includes confidential, professional support anytime you need it.
- We have a Talent Referral Bonus, and we recognise Long Service.
- We offer considerable space options for you to take a break – we have beautiful outdoor gardens and patio areas, our tea rooms are well-equipped, and we offer quiet spaces for prayer or reflection, or just to have some time out.
- We also provide professional development, internal development opportunities, and professional celebrations throughout the year.
We are not accepting candidate applications via agencies at this time.
Recruitment to this role is subject to our internal Braemar Talent Referral Scheme.
If you believe you have the skills and experience for this role, we would love to hear from you. Apply now by uploading your cover letter and resume or phone Jos Itayi, Nurse Advisor Clinical Education and PDRP, for a confidential discussion on 07 843 1899 extension 898.
