Registered Nurse - In-Patient Unit, Permanent



Come and join one of the best places to work!!
We are looking for amazing Registered Nurses (YOU!) to join the Inpatient Unit team (the best team!)
You will utilise your incredible skills to provide respite, symptom management and end of life care to our
patients and their whaanau.


We can offer…
  • Low staff-to-patient ratios
  • Time to care
  • Robust development opportunities
  • A supportive team and competitive salary
  • Free onsite parking
  • Free clinical supervision
  • Staff morning teas twice a week
  • Daylight (you won’t be stuck in a windowless ward)


You’ll need to bring…
  • A current RN Practising Certificate
  • Commitment to providing holistic and equitable care
  • A desire to learn
  • Motivation to have a positive effect on the quality of life for patients and whaanau


Hospice Waikato provides high quality, patient focused, palliative care, for Waikato people living with a terminal condition and their whaanau. We have a great culture, and our leaders genuinely care for our people and making this an awesome place to work – they even muck in to provide staff appreciation lunches each quarter.

Not sure if palliative care and Hospice Waikato has the pace, variety, or transferable skills to suit you?
Day to day our team give the best possible care to our patients, we have the time to sit and be with our patients, we also get the opportunity to work with some pretty exciting wounds! We are fast paced, we don’t sit around twiddling our thumbs, and our days are never the same, however the sense of achievement at the end of the day is ever present, we really do give the best care in one of the best environments.

We aren’t the end of the road for all our patients, many of our patients do walk in and walk back out again once we’ve given them the IPU experience.

To talk things through and ask any questions, please contact Jen Oakley, Clinical Nurse Manager, at [email protected] or 027 208 3402 to discuss any aspects of the role.

Find more about Hospice Waikato and a copy of the position description at http://www.hospicewaikato.org.nz/.

Apply via SEEK.

Applicants must have the right to work in NZ. The successful applicant will be required to undertake preemployment health screening (including drug testing) and complete a criminal records check, the results of which must be to Hospice Waikato’s satisfaction.

Download a copy of the position description below

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