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Working at Bowen
Bowen is a modern hospital situated 3km north of the Wellington central business district, set amongst landscaped grounds featuring many native trees and gardens. For health professionals and administrators living or relocating to the region, there would be few more satisfying places to work than Bowen.
Regular financial investment into facilities and equipment allows specialists and staff to practise their profession within a superior medical environment.
The Bowen team
Bowen Hospital employs more than 120 staff including over 60 qualified nurses. New nursing graduates are partnered with an experienced registered nurse until they become familiar with their role and environment. Bowens medical professionals are enthusiastically supported by the hospital administrators and management.
Bowen has a commitment to provide ongoing training for its staff, both on and off site. Opportunities to attend clinical conferences and undertake relevant post graduate study are encouraged and where appropriate financially supported.
An opportunity to work with the best
Bowen attracts some of the finest surgeons in New Zealand, including specialists in high technology, low invasive techniques. Bowen offers you an opportunity to work with these highly respected specialists, in partnership with a first rate nursing team.
Bowen has 3 modern operating theatres, a 7-bed recovery unit, along with a 41-bed hospital, Endoscopy Suite, X-ray and Imaging services, and a 2-bed High Dependency Unit.
Examine the benefits for yourself
Bowens greatest asset is its staff. To reward and retain the best people working in the industry today, Bowen offers a generous package of benefits and incentives to every staff member, including:
Subsidised Medical Insurance for permanent employees
Generous Study Leave
Flexible
Shifts
Long Service Awards
Subsidised Cafeteria
Free onsite car
parking
Child care assistance
Security Surveillance System
Uniforms
NZ
Nursing Council accredited Professional Development and Recognition Programme
Employee
Assistance Programme Counseling Service.
Positive People
At Bowen, patients have made a choice to have surgery or receive medical care with us. They are people who take responsibility for their health and who are motivated during recovery. They appreciate high standards of professionalism and are very responsive to our quality nursing care and hospital services.
Interaction with Bowen patients is a satisfying experience for specialists and staff alike.
Applying from Overseas
Wakefield Health welcomes applicants who have the legal right to work in New Zealand. If you are not a New Zealand or Australian citizen, please contact your nearest New Zealand Immigration Service to see if you are eligible to work in New Zealand.
We will endeavour to assist you with your application for a work or residence permit should you have a suitable specialised qualification such as registered nurse, ODP/anaesthetic technician or central sterile services technician.
We recommend you contact the appropriate organisation to ensure your qualifications are
recognised in New Zealand and you can obtain registration:
Nursing Council of New Zealand
(www.nursingcouncil.org.nz)
NZ Anaesthetic Technicians Society (www.nzats.co.nz)
NZ Sterile
Services Association (www.nzssa.org)
We look forward to receiving an enquiry from you, which should be directed in the first instance to:
Dorothy Shaw
Director of Nursing
Bowen Hospital
98 Churchill Drive, Crofton Downs,
Wellington 6035, New Zealand
Email: Dorothy.Shaw@wakefield.co.nz
Phone: +64 4 479 2069
