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Registered Nurse

Whakatane, New Zealand

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Posted 13/10/2025 Job Number 54697 Work type Permanent - Full Time Posting End Date 14/11/2025

Bring comfort, calm, and care to our residents when it matters most — Overnight.
At Bupa Mary Shapley in Whakatane, we’re looking for a compassionate Registered Nurse to join our dedicated team in a Permanent Night-Shift role (32 hours per week, 4-on-2-off roster).

When the rest of the world slows down, your quiet confidence and gentle care make all the difference. You’ll oversee our residents’ wellbeing through the night, ensuring they’re safe, comfortable, and cared for with dignity and warmth.

If you’re a calm, capable nurse who enjoys working autonomously, values stability, and takes pride in supporting our residents to feel secure and cared for through the night, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact every shift.

Where You’ll Make an Impact: 

  • Provide person-centred clinical care for residents in care homes across various levels of care.
  • Lead a team of caregivers to provide the highest quality clinical care.
  • 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.

Your Person-First Approach: 

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.
  • 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.
  • Applicants must be legally entitled to work in NZ. 

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 organisation 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.

Extra Reasons to Belong

  • Up to $50.64 per hour depending on experience.
  • Fully subsidised Southern Cross health insurance to our eligible permanent NZ employees and a discount on insurance cover for eligible family members.
  • 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, and internal reward and recognition programmes.
  • 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.

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.

About Bupa

Through vision, passion, and sheer hard work, we are 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 and we live by our values: 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





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