Unit Coordinator - Ascot, Invercargill
Invercargill, New Zealand
Full-Time Permanent Unit Coordinator - Bupa Ascot Care Home, Glengarry, Invercargill
Looking for a role that gives you structure, stability, and real leadership impact?
At Ascot Care Home in Invercargill, we’re seeking an experienced Registered Nurse ready to step into a full-time, permanent Unit Coordinator position. This role is ideal for a steady clinical leader who enjoys guiding teams, keeping a unit running smoothly, and being the calm, trusted presence staff and residents rely on every day.
This role offers the balance of predictable hours with the opportunity to step up and support the wider team when needed, including occasional weekend cover. You’ll sit at the heart of the care home, combining clinical oversight with coordination, leadership, and mentoring, without moving away from hands-on care entirely.
If you’re ready for a role where your experience is valued, your voice is heard, and your leadership truly makes a difference, this could be your next step.
Hours & Roster Details:
- Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Shift Time: Morning Shifts
- Roster Pattern: Monday to Friday. From time to time you will be required to work weekends depending on operation requirements.
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.
Through vision, passion, and sheer hard work, we’re now New Zealand’s largest aged care and dementia care provider. 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.
To express your interest, please submit an online application with your CV and we’ll reach out to chat about how you can progress your career with Bupa.
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