Registered Nurse - Dunedin

Located at our Dunedin NZBS Donor Centre

Current NZ practising certificate required

Full time, permanent

Must be currently entitled to work in New Zealand

About New Zealand Blood Service

New Zealand Blood and Organ Service (NZBS) is dedicated to saving lives.

Every year, tens of thousands of generous people donate their time, blood and plasma to us for free.

In addition to our vein-to-vein service in transfusion we also provide national services in organ transplantation, cellular therapies and tissue banking.

We exist to ensure the efficient delivery of safe blood and tissue products on a time critical basis throughout New Zealand and through the generosity of our donors, we are able to help save lives.

Our shared values are at the heart of our organisation\'s culture and guide our behaviour each and every day.

These values inspire, motivate us and drive us to provide the very best service to the New Zealand public.

Therapeutic Apheresis

We are seeking applications from Registered Nurses to join our Donor and Patient Services team.

The New Zealand Blood Service has recently started providing a Therapeutic Apheresis Service to Health NZ Southern patients at Dunedin Hospital.

Therapeutic apheresis is the ability to remove red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma for medical treatment, which can be used in a wide variety of conditions.

Using a centrifuge machine, blood is taken and spun to separate certain components, before returning the remaining blood cells, platelets and plasma back to the patient.

We are currently providing therapeutic plasma exchange, which is removal of plasma with disease causing agents, replacing it with donated plasma.

The Dunedin Therapeutic Apheresis Team works collaboratively with a wider multi-disciplinary team which includes input from both a local and national level.

About the role

In this role the successful applicant will work across Donor Collections and Patient Services.

Extensive training will be provided in all aspects of the collection of whole blood and plasma utilising your health assessment, critical thinking and reflective practice skills as a core component of this.

Extensive training will also be provided in Therapeutic Apheresis, specifically this focus will be on Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and management of patient care with the delivery of this procedure.

Working within the Dunedin Therapeutic Apheresis team, there are on-call requirement with this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a wider multi-disciplinary team in Dunedin Hospital in a number of specialty areas as well as getting to be part of our Donor Collection team.

This provides an opportunity to work cross functionally and develop skills across different clinical settings.

About you

As mentioned, this role provides an essential service in collection of blood products and donor health education in addition to being part of the Therapeutic Apheresis team.

If learning and development vitalise you, then you\'ve found a perfect opportunity.

The following considerations will be applied when determining who the successful applicants will be :

Current APC with the New Zealand Nursing Council

Current work entitlement to work in New Zealand

3 years minimum experience in an acute setting (this could include working in acute inpatient areas, Emergency Department, Intensive Care).

Clinical experience working in these settings must have been within the last 5 years.

Ability to work on-call which includes weekends and Public Holidays.

Ability to work as part of an on-call roster.

Be available for travel to be trained in Therapeutic Apheresis in another region (travel will be to Christchurch, Hamilton, Auckland or Wellington).

Training will likely take 2 - 4 weeks, dependent on the number of procedures.

Local training will be provided in all aspects of donor care and blood and blood product collection.

Be confident working across different settings with both donor and patient care.

Salary starting at $75,773 to $106,739 depending on skills, registration, and experience.

As the Therapeutic Apheresis is largely autonomous, successful applicants must be confident working autonomously, and have the ability to effectively work within a multi-disciplinary team alongside key speciality areas and display excellent communication skills.

Opportunities like this one don't come along often.

Apply today!

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