Unit Coordinator
Christchurch, New Zealand
Unit Coordinator – Full Time Permanent | 40 Hours per Week
Step into a leadership role where your clinical expertise truly matters.
Bupa Parklands Care Home in Papanui is a large, well-established 127-bed care home, and we’re looking for an experienced Senior Registered Nurse to lead one of our units as a Unit Coordinator on a full-time, permanent (40 hours per week) basis.
This role is ideal for a nurse who is passionate about specialist dementia and psychogeriatric care, enjoys being hands-on, and takes pride in guiding teams through calm, consistent, and person-centred care.
As Unit Coordinator, you’ll balance clinical leadership with floor presence. Supporting your team, overseeing care delivery, and ensuring residents with complex needs feel safe, understood, and respected every day.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide person-centred clinical care for residents in care homes across various levels of care.
- Lead a team of caregivers and nurses to provide the highest quality clinical care within the Unit
- Conduct medication rounds, manage care plans, and maintain accurate paperwork.
- Stand up and tell us where we can invest more to ensure continuous quality improvement.
Skills and Experience
You’ll help us make a real difference through your RN experience, personal passion, and empathy.
- Hold a current APC and NZ Nursing Council Registration.
- Previous experience and a passion for leading a team to mentor and support others
- Excellent clinical skills in adult care and ideal aged care experience.
- Confident communication, interpersonal, and teamwork abilities.
- A compassionate nurse who strives for excellence and to make an impact in residents’ lives.
Extra Reasons to Belong:
- Fully subsidised Southern Cross health insurance to our eligible permanent NZ employees and a discount on insurance cover for eligible family members.
- Be part of a strong national and regional support network, regional quality partners, and our national clinical services improvement team to support your success in this role.
- Wellbeing discounts and advice, EAP counselling services, study support, and cultural leave.
- Paid parental leave - in addition to standard parental leave, Bupa offers 12 weeks of paid leave for primary carers and 2 weeks for secondary carers
- Refer-a-friend programme
- Professional Development – in-house and external training and development
- Industry-competitive remuneration and benefits, national forums, and internal reward and recognition programmes.
- Nursing Council-Approved PDRP
- No matter who you are or where you come from, we encourage you to ‘Be You at Bupa.’
- An accredited employer with Immigration NZ that values its diverse employees.
For the opportunity to join the Bupa community and to make a difference to the lives of our residents, please submit your application today – we would love to hear from you.
About Bupa
Through vision, passion, and sheer hard work, we’re one of New Zealand’s largest aged care and dementia care providers. As one of New Zealand’s leading healthcare organisations, we employ more than 4,000 people: we’re brave, caring, and responsible. All united by one purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
Our Values | Ā mātou ūara
Brave | Māiatanga Caring | Manaakitanga Responsible | Haepapa
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and therefore may result in the role closing early if the right applicant is found.
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