About the job 

• Career showcase opportunity to drive and embed clinical and system innovation.
• Responsible for leading a portfolio of dynamic theatre specialties.
• Key part of a supportive theatre leadership team.
• 0.9- 1.0 FTE, permanent role.

About Us

Braemar Hospital is a prestigious private surgical hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand, dedicated to supporting nearly 200 credentialed specialists, across nine operating theatres and two endoscopy suites, and providing a full range of surgical specialties and medical procedures.

Our hospital exists, quite simply, to make lives better. We know the right experience at Braemar Hospital can improve how patients and their whānau feel, and how they live, even when there’s a long journey to full recovery. To see patients, leave Braemar with a new lease on life makes our efforts worthwhile.

The service we deliver at Braemar Hospital, and the profit that generates, enables our owner, the Braemar Charitable Trust, to support our community to live better lives through funding surgeries, health-related academic scholarships, medical research, and other health-related initiatives across the Waikato.

Care and excellence are at our core. We are well-known for investing in highly sophisticated technology, equipment, and facilities to enable our highly skilled team to deliver quality, safe patient outcomes. We also invest heavily in developing a world-leading organisational culture to attract and retain the very best talent because we know the critical role our team play in surgical excellence.

The Opportunity

Bring your systems leadership, care for people focus and fresh ideas to this role, Associate Theatre Manager.

Are you excited to shape a team working across Cardio-Thoracic, Vascular, General, Plastics and Reconstructive as well as Urology and Gynae specialties?

We are seeking someone to lead our Clinical Nurse Leaders and wider team in the management of our theatre services. Working in partnership with a collaborative leadership team, we want to create an environment where our nurses are supported and energised to bring life to our vision of clinical leadership.

Reporting to the Theatre Services Manager, the Associate Theatre Manager is responsible for:

• providing clinical expertise, direction and leadership to the nursing and clinical support workforce within Theatres, identifying and driving improvements to how we work.
• managing the day- to- day requirements of service delivery of the Operating Theatres.
• clinical and operational resource management and efficiency of services
• collaborating with other leadership teams to support and deliver efficient and effective use of people and financial resources, resulting in positive clinical outcomes, exceptional customer services and growth of services within their delegation.

This role actively supports the Theatre Services Manager to the achieve strategic goals of Braemar Hospital and is a critical element of the Theatre leadership team.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Understand that the key to success lies in our team’s strength at collaboration; you will have the ability and disposition to enhance co-operation and teamwork.
• Be known for your clear and professional communication skills; and your ability to remain calm and collected in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the relevant AORN standards and their application to practice.
• Be a role model for bringing fresh ideas, best practice and system improvement to our work.
• Be highly organised and accountable for delivery.
• Show compassion and listening in your leadership style.

Working for Us

Choosing to work at Braemar Hospital means choosing to live the Braemar Way. Our ‘BCOMPassionate’ principles are our North Star, and we know when our people and culture line up behind the Braemar Way, we become unbeatable.

In addition to competitive remuneration, working with us provides you with access to a number of great benefits, including:

• We provide morning and afternoon tea daily, and we have delicious seasonal fruit delivered three times a week across the hospital;
• We heavily subsidise restaurant-quality meals which you can order for lunch and dinner;
• We have an annual summer shutdown where we close the hospital and ensure our whole team have some down time;
• Once you hit five years’ service at Braemar, we increase your annual holidays accrual to five weeks per year;
• We offer access to our retail and experience discount platforms so you can access great local discounts;
• We provide a parental leave top-up benefit if you’re heading off on parental leave;
• We offer limited free parking on site, a secure bike storage shed, electric vehicle chargers, and we are on a main public transport bus route;
• We provide a pretty special Wellness initiative each year;
• You’ll have access to a Financial Advisor to help support with your personal finances, free of charge;
• We offer Vitae support which includes confidential, professional support anytime you need it;
• We have a Talent Referral Bonus, and we recognise Long Service;
• We offer considerable space options for you to take a break – we have beautiful outdoor gardens and patio areas, our tea rooms are well-equipped, and we offer quiet spaces for prayer or reflection, or just to have some time out; and
• We also provide professional development, internal development opportunities, and professional celebrations throughout the year.

Please note, we are not accepting candidate applications via agencies.

This role is subject to our internal Braemar Talent Referral Scheme.

If you believe you have the skills and experience for this role, we would love to hear from you. Apply now by uploading your cover letter and resume below, or phone Kate Wilson, Theatre Services Manager for a confidential discussion on 07 843 1899.