Nurse Educator Projects

• Nurse Educator Projects Nelson Hospital
• Permanent part time 0. 5FTE (40 hours a fortnight)
• This is an exciting opportunity to influence nursing practice, support workforce development, and contribute to the delivery of high-quality, equitable healthcare across our services
  

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

As the Nurse Educator, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and developing nursing staff across the organisation. You will provide leadership, guidance, and education that develop nursing knowledge, clinical competence, critical thinking, and professional practice.

Key responsibilities include:

• Improving the experience of healthcare consumers, their families, and whānau by ensuring the provision of competent, confident, and capable nursing clinicians across the health continuum.
• Leading and advocating for appropriate nursing knowledge, critical thinking, clinical skills, competence development, and effective utilisation of escalation pathways to support safe and effective care.
• Prioritising and promoting equity in education, clinical practice, and service delivery.
• Ensuring clinical quality systems are in place within and across nursing services to enhance care delivery and improve patient outcomes.
• Contributing to service priorities, workforce development, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

About the Team/Service/ Location

The Nursing Education team works in partnership with nursing leaders, clinical services, and multidisciplinary teams across Nelson Marlborough to support workforce capability and professional development. The team is committed to ensuring nursing staff have access to high-quality education, clinical support, and professional development opportunities that enable them to provide safe, effective, and patient-centred care.

About you

You will bring a minimum of 5 years recent clinical experience along with validated advanced specialist knowledge and expertise in engaging educational attention and enhanced learning ability by nursing clinicians. You will have demonstrated skill to multi-task and manage multiple projects reprioritising same as required.

You will also have:

• Registration with the Nursing Council of New Zealand as a Registered Nurse with a current practising certificate
• Postgraduate Diploma qualification obtained and working towards or completed a master's qualification
• Previous Nursing Education programme development experience
• Demonstrated leadership experience within contemporary professional nursing at a senior level
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• A collaborative approach and commitment to high-quality patient-centred care and equity within healthcare setting 

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.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers’ portal by 15 July 2026. If you have any general questions, please contact the nursing recruiter on Lee.Packer@tewhatuora.govt.nz or for more role specific questions please contact Jodi Miller - Assoc Director of Nursing- Workforce Development on Jodi.Miller@nmdhb.govt.nz

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

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