About the job

Are you a compassionate, confident clinical leader ready to shape a high-performing rehabilitation service?

We're looking for an experienced Registered Nurse Manager to lead a unique 5-bed transitional rehabilitation home supporting adults with spinal cord injuries (SCI). This is a role where expert clinical care, dignity, independence, and genuine partnership with residents and their whānau are at the centre of everything.

If you thrive in environments where clinical excellence meets purpose-driven leadership-this could be your next step.

🌟 Why This Role Stands Out

Lead a highly specialised SCI service supporting complex needs including tetraplegia, respiratory care, bowel & bladder programmes, and pressure injury prevention

Empower and grow a skilled rehabilitation team

Drive clinical governance, quality improvement, and innovation

Work in true partnership with residents and whānau to support independence and meaningful goals

Collaborate with allied health, primary care, and spinal specialists to deliver seamless care

This isn't just management-it's leadership with real impact.

🔍 What You'll Be Doing

Lead Clinical Excellence

Deliver and oversee high-quality care across respiratory support, wound care, medication management, pressure injury prevention, and more. Drive audits, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Grow & Support Your Team

Lead recruitment, rostering, coaching, and performance development in a positive, learning-focused environment.

Champion Person-Centred Care

Promote dignity, autonomy, and strong safeguarding practices for all residents.

Oversee Operations & Safety

Manage day-to-day service delivery, resources, risk, and compliance with health standards.

Build Strong Relationships

Work closely with residents, whānau, clinicians, and key stakeholders.

Provide On-Call Leadership

Participate in an after-hours on-call roster.

✅ What You'll Bring

Essential:

Registered Nurse with current APC

NZ working rights (no sponsorship available)

3-5+ years' experience in complex disability, rehabilitation, community care, or SCI

Strong clinical expertise (wound care, IPC, medication management, emergency response)

2+ years' proven leadership experience (rostering, supervision, coaching, performance management)

Excellent communication and cultural competence

Confident using electronic systems and Microsoft 365

Calm, organised, and able to lead under pressure

Desirable:

Advanced SCI knowledge (autonomic dysreflexia, bowel/bladder care, transfers, assistive tech)

Experience with SPC, PEG feeding, stoma and complex wound care

Training and competency assessment experience

If you're ready to lead a service where your clinical expertise and leadership genuinely change lives-we'd love to hear from you.

👉 Apply now or reach out for a confidential chat

Desired Skills and Experience

Skills & Experience

- Registered Nurse with a current APC and NZ working rights.

- 3-5+ years' experience in rehabilitation, complex disability, community care, or spinal injury

- Strong clinical capability in areas such as wound care, medication management, IPC, and emergency response

- Minimum 2+ years proven leadership experience including rostering, coaching, and performance management

- Confident communicator with a culturally responsive, person-centred approach

- Able to lead calmly under pressure, with strong organisational and problem-solving skills

Desirable: Experience in spinal cord injury care, including bowel/bladder management, autonomic dysreflexia, and complex care procedures (e.g. PEG, SPC, stoma care).