Benefits

Competitive salaries, reasonably priced housing and a variety of inexpensive leisure activities make living in Northland a positive choice.

• The Recruitment Team are experienced in working through the Immigration and Registration processes
• Easy access to hospitals, no city traffic hassles
• $1.00 a day staff parking
• Two on-site cafeterias
• Rental accommodation is cheaper than in larger cities
• You can choose to live in town or closer to the water’s edge within 20-40 minutes of the hospitals
• Staff discounts available at participating businesses
• Whangārei, Kaitaia and Dargaville Hospitals provide staff swimming pools
• Whangārei and Kaitaia Hospitals have free staff gymnasiums. Staff also benefit from corporate rates at local gyms
• Te Whatu Ora has a high number of expatriates, especially among the nursing and medical staff. This makes for a fairly large, like-minded social group
• Uniforms provided for select services
• A large, modern staff library that offers a wide-range of services and resources to staff at all NDHB locations. Online resources include core e-journals, e-books (such as Harrisons Online & the Oxford Textbook of Medicine), MDConsult, UpToDate, Ovid Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Proquest and more! Services/facilities include loan of print books, interlibrary loan, library training, PCs with CD/DVD players, headphones, quiet & group study rooms, and a scanning/photocopy/printing machine. All staff have 24 hour access to the library's wifi and networked PCs.