Job Description
Full job description
Opportunity for a senior RN to join our Advanced Nursing Team as a Clinical Nurse Advisor.
About the job:
You will be the most senior RN across the hospital in an after-hours capacity. You'll be the first responder to clinical emergencies, and support your nursing colleagues to manage clinical deterioration and escalate care. This is a permanent role 0.8 FTE (32 hrs per week). You'll report to our dynamic Charge Nurse Manager. Shifts are 8 hrs on weekday PMs, 10 hr nights, and 12 hr weekends, and on a rotating basis you'll be assigned to either of our 2 hospitals - Allevia Epsom, or Allevia Ascot.
Responsibilities include:
Managing staff, providing leadership and oversight of operational activities during afterhours and weekends
Providing specialist, evidenced based, clinical support and expertise at the bedside to our nursing staff
Using advanced assessment skills to support the clinical assessment of patients causing concern and escalating as appropriate
Monitoring staffing levels and adjusting as required to maintain safe staffing
Liaising with our in-house Bureau to ensure bed allocations and casual staffing are managed appropriately
About You: The role is ideally suited to an experienced RN who has:
Strong clinical expertise, that includes current critical care experience in the ICU/HDU or Emergency environment, within a NZ or Australian hospital
Leadership experience
Current advanced clinical skills e.g. cannulation, phlebotomy, ECG, catheterisation
ACLS certification
The benefits:
This position is included in our collective agreement with the NZNO. We offer great pay rates and a range of other benefits that include; funded professional development, free parking, Christmas & New Year close-down period, subsidised private health insurance after 2 yrs service, discounts on gym memberships & retail, discounted hospital & pharmacy charges, wellbeing support programme, etc etc
About us:
We're part of the Allevia Health group of companies and we're New Zealand's largest private surgical facility with 25 theatres across 3 sites, including ICU and HDU facilities. Our surgical specialties include: Colorectal/Gastro, Gynae, Urology, Neurology, Oncology, Plastics, Head & Neck, (incl free flap reconstructive surgery), ENT/ORL, Orthopaedic/Spinal, Max/Fax, Cardiothoracic, and Vascular.
If you're an RN looking to advance your clinical career pathway and you believe you have what it takes to join our Advanced Nursing Team, then we look forward to receiving your application. Or, if you'd like more information or a confidential chat, please contact Jan Arnold at jan.arnold@allevia.co.nz
Job Details
Reference #
42749
Organisation
Allevia Hospitals
Posted on
06 Oct 2026
Closes on
05 Nov 2026 12:00
Job level(s)
Experienced (3 years plus), Management
Work type(s)
Permanent, Part Time
