Registered Nurses – New Donor Centre (Porirua)

Registered Nurses – NEW Donor Centre (Porirua)

Want to help save lives and make a positive difference to our nation's well-being?

Revitalise your Nursing passion and feel a sense of pride being an essential aspect of providing a life-saving service to New Zealanders by collecting, processing and distributing blood and blood products.

Permanent, full-time opportunity

Current NZ practising certificate required

New site opening in

About the role

We are currently recruiting for

two full-time permanent Registered Nurses for our brand-new Donor Centre in Porirua

You will ideally be available to start early to mid-January

• for training, induction and orientation.

Working for the New Zealand Blood and Organ Service (NZBS), our Registered Nurses undertake donor health assessments and perform whole blood, plasma and platelet collection procedures.

If leadership is your forte, our Registered Nurses proceed to coordinate, manage, and conduct collection sessions.

Some of our nurses get to keep their patient skills honed with the Therapeutic Apheresis and Therapeutic Venesection teams, autonomously caring for patients in our hemochromatosis clinic or completing hospital-based stem cell harvests and plasma exchanges at some of our sites.

If education is a goal for you, our Workforce Coach workshop will foster your training skills and support you coaching new and progressing staff.

While our new Porirua Donor Centre is getting ready for its Grand Opening, induction and training will likely be undertaken in our Newtown Donor Centre in Wellington, so your flexibility to work across Donor Centres in Newtown, Porirua and mobiles across Wellington will be ideal.

Salary offered - $75,773 to $106,739 depending on skills, registration, and experience.

Additionally, if you choose to work with us, you will :

Enjoy a better work-life balance (no nights!) and working with healthy donors

Work in outpatient environments like Donor Centres and Mobile Drives

Work rotational, rostered shifts Monday to Friday usually between 06 :

This also includes the occasional Saturday and statutory holiday duties.

Have an ability to travel for up to 2 nights away (on mobile blood drives) across the Central Region

Participate in professional development & advancement including a Nursing Council accredited PDRP programme

Undertake comprehensive training and orientation

Help save lives and make a positive difference to people's well-being

We will process applications as they come in and reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.

We may also close applications in case the role is appointed earlier.

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 transfusion service, 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.

Watch this video to see what our people say about the NZBS values they admire the most.

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