Description & Requirements
Registered Nurse – Casual Role | Bupa Bethesda Care Home
We’re looking for an experienced Registered Nurse who wants to use their clinical skills where they truly matter. At Bupa Bethesda Care Home in Bishopdale, Christchurch, you’ll play a key role in ensuring safe, person-centred care while supporting caregivers and maintaining clinical standards across the home.
To excel in this role, you’ll bring confidence in aged care nursing, sound clinical judgement, and the ability to lead calmly through a shift. You’ll be comfortable with medication management, care planning, and responding to changes in resident condition, while communicating clearly with families and the wider care team.
This is a casual Registered Nurse role, where you can pick up shifts across Monday - Sunday. There are no guaranteed hours.
Where You’ll Make an Impact:
- Provide person-centred clinical care for residents in our 90-bed care home offering rest home, hospital, and dementia 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.
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.
Extra Reasons to Belong
- Up to $52.67 per hour depending on experience.
- 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’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.