Intensive Care Unit Registrar

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Based at Tauranga Hospital
• Employment Type: Permanent full time (1 FTE) commencing July 2025
• Highly rewarding role and opportunity to make a difference!

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we're building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

We are seeking RMOs with at least two years of post-graduate experience to join our Intensive Care team at Tauranga Hospital. This permanent, full-time position has been created to support the expansion of our ICU and will commence in July 2025.

About the Team/Service/Location

We are a level II ICU per College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) definitions. Our referral centres are Waikato and Auckland. Our clinical lead is a Fellow of CICM. We are a ten bedded closed ICU, with capacity for six ventilated and four HDU patients. We will soon be expanding the unit to 16 total beds, with capacity for eight ventilated. 

Our surge planning includes the ability to ventilate 16 to 22 patients with reduced nursing ratios. We currently employ approximately 55 FTE of nurses, with 70 permanent nursing staff. The ICU admits between 1000 and 1200 patients per year, a mix of paediatric, acute medical and surgical and elective surgical cases. A specialised transport nurse and helicopter are available every day. ICU doctors are required to assist on some transports. 

About you

• Up-to-date CV and completed Te Whatu Ora online application
• Three x referee reports (one of whom must be your most recent supervisor). Reports must be received by the above-stated closing date.   
• Please follow this link to the referee form. Te Whatu Ora - BOP will not contact referees – it is the applicants' responsibility to provide references with their application.
• References should be attached to your application. If this is not possible before the closing date, they can be emailed to medicalstaffrecruitment@bopdhb.govt.nz
• Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth 
• Experience in projects / initiatives which give effect to Te Tiriti principals and frameworks, and the application of Mātauranga Māori and Kaupapa Māori approaches, particularly as they apply in healthcare settings.

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness'. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion 

• We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
• We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

To view the position description and/or apply for the role please click “apply now.”  All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 10 March 2025. If you have any questions about the role, please contact the Medical Staffing Unit at medicalstaffrecruitment@bopdhb.govt.nz.

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.