Graduate Programme
As a graduate, you’re now ready to deliver on all of your potential, to put into practice all that you’ve learned during your training. At CMDHB we know that getting the best out of our grads requires us to get to know them, and to discover what we can do to help them succeed in this challenging environment.
Our comprehensive Graduate Programme provides a supportive environment in which you can maintain your levels of competency and progress during that all important first year of practice. It will enable you to provide a high standard of care and encourage you to continue in your professional development.
Resident Medical Officers
Recruitment and training of doctors and medical graduates are managed by Auckland Regional RMO Services Ltd (ARRMOS), a not-for-profit limited liability company wholly-owned by the Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland District Health Board and Counties Manukau District Health Board. ARRMOS provides recruitment, allocation, training, workforce development and administrative support services to Resident Medical Officers (RMOs) and the Auckland Regional DHBs in the region.
www.aucklanddoctors.co.nz
Dental Therapy
CMDHB in conjunction with Auckland Regional Dental Services (ARDS) can offer you an unparalleled cross-cultural experience, and opportunities for career progression. As a Dental Therapist, roles you can develop into include Clinical Educator, Mentor, Clinical Team Leader, Dental Health Educator and Dental Manager.
As a public health sector employer, we provide job security, financial support for your professional membership, APC, study leave, guidance from a public health dentist, and mentors.
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Allied Health Professionals Graduate Programmes
Physiotherapy, social work, occupational therapy and speech language therapy all provide rotational positions for new graduate staff. Occupational therapy in Mental Health provides a new graduate programme where employees are given the opportunity to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Health (Allied Mental Health) through Victoria University of Wellington. Occupational therapy also provides an advanced rotation for more experienced staff. Dietitians are in the process of developing rotational positions.
All staff enjoy regular supervision and there is a commitment to ongoing education. Performance development reviews are an annual occurrence for all staff, with rotational staff completing a new review for each rotation.
Strong links with professional bodies are maintained through the professional leaders. Links with tertiary providers are strengthened by a robust student placement scheme for all professions.
Nurse Entry to Practice Programme
The Nurse Entry to Practice programme available at Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) is a comprehensive twelve month programme. The aim is to provide a supportive environment in which the graduate nurse can progress and ensure competency is maintained throughout their first year of practice enabling him/her to provide a high standard of care and promote continuing professional development.
Support
At CMDHB we are committed to making graduate nurses feel supported. The NETP team includes a Nurse Co-ordinator, Nurse Educator and Clinical Coaches and in addition there is support provided by area specific Nurse Educators and Preceptors to whom you are allocated to in your clinical area along with other team members.
Professional Development
The NETP programme consists of 3 components that support your professional development.
- Academic Component
Post Graduate Education and In-Service
- 12 study days over the year
- Adult Stream : One 30 point paper in partnership with the University of Auckland
- Paediatric Stream : One 20 point paper in partnership with Auckland University of Technology (AUT) - Clinical Component
Either 2 x 6 monthly rotations OR 1 x 12 month placement offered in a wide variety of clinical placements - PDRP Component
Support to complete and submit a competent Professional Development and Recognition Programme (PDRP) portfolio prior to completion of the NETP programme
Upon successful completion of the NETP programme the new Graduate Nurses will receive a Counties Manukau DHB NETP Completion Certificate.
Placements
One of the unique features of our NETP programme is the wide variety of clinical placements we offer and the ability to do 2 six month rotations across different services. In addition to this if you are looking for a specialty area, we offer you 12 months in the area to give you a great kick start to your career.
Application dates for NETP September 2012 intake are as below:
| Applications open | 21 May |
| Applications close | 10 June |
All applications are to be made online here once applications open.
NETP Open Day
We will be holding a NETP Open Day on Thursday 31st May 2012 at 10:00am in Room 107, Ko Awatea - Middlemore Hospital. This is your chance to see what we have to offer and meet the nurses from the specialties that interest you.
Please RSVP to NETP@middlemore.co.nz by Monday 28th May to let us know if you will be attending the Open Day.
Nurse Entry To Practice – Expansion Programme
Primary healthcare nursing
The vision for Primary Healthcare nursing is to create an environment that enables nurses to provide integrated comprehensive nursing care to individuals and population groups in New Zealand primary healthcare settings, and that strengthens the primary healthcare team towards improving health for all.
Primary healthcare nurses work autonomously and collaboratively to promote, improve, maintain and restore health. Primary healthcare nursing encompasses population health, health promotion, disease prevention, wellness care, first point of contact and disease management across the lifespan. The setting and the ethnic and cultural grouping of the people determine models of practice. Partnership with people - individuals, family, whaanau, communities and populations to achieve the shared goal of health for all, is central to primary healthcare nursing.
Primary healthcare nursing is delivered in a variety of settings in city, urban and rural areas, in partnership with individual, families or population groups and will provide for case management of individuals across the primary secondary and tertiary interface.
The PHC nursing team within Counties Manukau District Health Board are working in partnership with all nurses working in the community to improve our population’s health
The establishment of the NETP – Expansion Programme within CMDHB enables the new Graduate Nurse to follow in their goals and aspirations for Primary Healthcare Nursing without first having to gain experience in a tertiary centre. The programme has extended to the Primary Care arena having established good relationships between the DHB and a variety of primary providers.
- Primary Health Organisations (General Practices) (PHO)
- Non-Government Organisations (NGO)
- Residential Care Facilities (RCF)
Support
Primary Nurse Leaders
Primary Nurse Specialists
Preceptors at the practice
NETP team
Mental Health Nursing Graduate Programme
The Mental Health Graduate Programme is a specially designed programme to challenge and develop the new Graduate Nurse in the specialty of Mental Health. It is an exciting programme with the support from a strong team within Mental Health services. There is a strong focus on the academic component to develop competency, with 17 study days through out the year to provide the programme. The new Graduate will work towards a Post Graduate Certificate in Nursing, which is completed during the graduate year with 2 x 30 point papers through the University of Auckland. The new Graduate will be provided with professional supervision as well as having a preceptor within their clinical placement, and access to the Mental Health Nurse Educator Team. Clinical placements are aimed to provide a 6 month placement in both a community and inpatient setting. CMDHB provides and funds a range of mental health services for people who experience mental illness.
Midwifery Graduate Programme
The midwifery new graduate programme is highly sought after by new graduates and is aimed at consolidating the practice of the new graduate specific to the hospital environment. This 15 month programme aims to support the beginning practitioner as they rotate through an antenatal, postnatal and delivery suite setting. A Midwife Co-ordinator manages the programme and ensures each graduate midwife is supported by a designated preceptor and four extra study days, which are pertinent to working in our busy, high-risk department. Applications are accepted each year in August for commencement the following year.
Voluntary Bonding Scheme
Voluntary bonding is an incentive payment scheme that has been introduced by the Government to reward midwifery graduates who agree to work in hard-to-staff areas. It is a practical initiative designed to move graduates into the communities and specialties that need them most. Graduates who are part of the scheme are eligible for incentive payments of up to $17,500 (net) intended to help repay their student loans for up to five years. Combined with compulsory student loan deductions from graduate’s income, this will give individuals a significant boost in repaying their student loans. Counties Manukau DHB is the only DHB in the Auckland region that offers access to this scheme.