Summerset at Wigram is a modern retirement village with easy access to the southern Christchurch motorway and local amenities including The Landing shopping centre and Hornby Mall. We are looking for a Registered Nurse to join our vibrant Village! This presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to shaping the Village’s greatness.

This is a fixed term role operating on a 4 on 2 off rotational roster until 9th April 2025

Summerset is the third largest retirement village operator in New Zealand. We're passionate about providing quality service to our clients and we are growing quickly, with 39+ villages from Whangarei down to Dunedin.

Develop your career

Summerset at Wigram will offer you a surprising range of skills. So your career can grow in some interesting directions. You can:

• Lead caregiver teams and build leadership, delegation and mentoring skills
• Improve your skills in evidence-based clinical assessments
• Choose a specialist pathway and pursue clinical interests

At Summerset, we care about helping you succeed professionally. We provide:

• Access to external training
• Paid time off for PDRP
• Onsite training
• Days assigned to professional development

Provide holistic care

• Our residents are often here for many years, and our approach to care is resident-directed. The ultimate focus is their quality of life. You'll have time to gain a broad sense of their needs, and:
• Focus on rehabilitation
• Set goals and provide support
• Enhance their day-to-day lives and improve their quality of life
• Manage their everyday needs, from clinical to end-of-life care

Rewarding work

Aged care is one of the most rewarding areas of nursing. You can really enhance long-term residents' lives by:

• Getting to know residents, and their families, well
• Following through long-term care plans
• Meeting their health and social needs

Here, you'll gain experience and skills you'll use through your entire career.

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Our successful applicant will have:

• A NZ Registration and a current Practicing Certificate
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Empathy and a passion for helping and caring for the elderly
• A team player
• Honesty and integrity

Come to Summerset

Summerset's known for its excellent benefits and strong sense of values around care, teamwork and drive for excellence. With some of the best benefits in the sector, some of these include:

• Weekend rates of an additional 40% of the hourly rate
• Overtime rates at T1.5
• Birthday leave
• Quarterly draws to win one of three $3000 vouchers.
• We hold our annual company Applause Awards where we recognise and thank those that exemplify bringing the best of life.
• We contribute to your fundraising efforts for nationwide charities.

By bringing the best of life to our residents, we stand apart in the aged care sector. There's truly no better place to develop your nursing career.

We welcome overseas applicants for this role who are currently working through relocation or looking to move to NZ. Please note all applications will be considered on merit.

The safety of our residents and staff is important to us. For this reason, we require all our employees to be fully vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19 before commencing work at Summerset The safety of our residents and staff is important to us. For this reason, we require all our employees to be fully vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19 before commencing work at Summerset