Health New Zealand NETP (Nurse Entry to Practice), NESP (New Entry to Specialty Practice) and ENSIP (Enrolled Nurse Support into Practice) programmes are Nursing Council of New Zealand accredited and accommodate new graduates within hospital and primary health care settings.

This programme enables nursing graduates to begin their careers well-supported, safe, skilled and confident in their clinical practice, equipped for further learning and professional development, meeting the needs of health and disability support service users and employers.

The NESP programme supports nurses new to mental health, addiction and intellectual disability services (MHAIDS) to develop their professional practice while developing the specific skills required for the specialty field. We are committed to supporting new graduate nurses in their first year of practice.

All applications are made through the Nursing Advanced Choice of Employment (ACE) website.

Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley

Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley

Applications are made through the Nursing Advanced Choice of Employment (ACE) website.

When applying for NETP at Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley, please address your cover letter to the “NETP team” or “the NETP Coordinators.”  Please indicate in your cover letter if you are only interested in a particular site, and provide more details about the practice areas that you are interested in.

Interviews will be held on-site at both Wellington Hospital and Hutt Hospital. Candidates will interview once for all positions across our District.

For Hutt Valley these interviews will be on the 30 September to 3 of October 2024. For Wellington these interviews will be on the 14-18 October 2024.

Invitations to interview will be sent out via email from the 27 of September 2024. Please be in touch if you are unwell or wish to reschedule your interview.

The first day of the NETP Programme will be on the 21 of January 2025.
You will be employed on a permanent contract to coincide with the programme start dates and work in one of your chosen practice settings. Contracts are either 32 or 36 hours per week (depending on whether the area works 8 to 12hour shifts).

End of Year 2024 NETP Programme intended employment areas

The Practice areas below have indicated that they intend to recruit graduates as part of the NETP Programme starting in January 2025. These positions are subject to vacancy and are used to indicate areas of intended recruitment.

Aged and Residential Care St Joseph's Lifecare, Upper Hutt 
Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation

Kenepuru Hospital
Ward 6
Cardiac Care (Includes Coronary Care Units and Cardiothoracic)

Wellington Hospital
Ward 6 South: Regional Heart & Lung Unit
Emergency and Trauma

Wellington Hospital
Emergency Department
Health of Older Persons Within the DHB Wellington Hospital
Ward 3 – Acute Frailty Unit
Intensive Care (Includes High Dependency) Wellington Hospital
Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Medical

Wellington Hospital
Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)
Ward 5 South: General Medical
Ward 6 East (general medical)
Neonatal

Wellington Hospital

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Oncology Wellington Hospital
Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre
Paediatrics, Child Health and Youth Health

Wellington Hospital (Te Wao Nui)

Piko: Children's MedicalKowhai: Children's surgical
Perioperative Care (Theatre) Wellington Hospital
Operating Theatre
Primary Health Care (Including Practice Nursing, GP Clinics, Accident & Medical Centres, Iwi Providers, Pacific Providers, School Nursing, Well Child Providers, Plunket, NGO's and Hospice)

Marry Potter Hospice

Capital Care Health Centre

Wellington Accident and Medical Centre

Central Wellington Medical

Waiwhetu Medical Centre, Lower Hutt

Te Awakairangi, Lower Hutt

Queen Street Medical, Lower Hutt
Surgical

Kenepuru Hospital 
Ward 7

Wellington Hospital 
Ward 7 North (General Surgical, ENT, ophthalmology, Vascular)
Ward 7 South: Neurosciences
Ward 6 North: Orthopaedics and Urology
Surgical Assessment and Planning Unit (SAPU)

Hutt Hospital
Orthopaedic Clinic
Women's Health

Wellington Hospital
4 North Gynae

Nelson Marlborough

Nelson Marlborough

All applications are made through the Nursing Advanced Choice of Employment (ACE) website.

NETP placements are offered in Nelson and Blenheim for both secondary services and primary health. We try to place people according to their clinical interests.

  • Secondary service placement areas include: Medical, surgical assessment treatment and rehabilitation, perioperative, emergency department, and radiology.
  • Primary care placements areas include: Māori health provider, hospice, aged care and a mixed rural nursing experience at Murchison Community Hospital.

New graduates in the NETP programme start in late January. These are usually 12-month positions but occasionally a placement can be split into two six-month placements in two different clinical areas

Position description

NESP (nurse entry to specialist practice) programme provides a safe, supported environment in which a graduate nurse can transition to mental health nursing practice. The programme is approved by Nursing Council New Zealand and funded by Te Pou Mental Health Workforce Development (Te Pou).

We offer three NeSP positions each year, starting in late January for 12 months. Positions are based at Nelson Hospital's Wahi Oranga mental health unit and participants may also negotiate a community mental health or addictions services placement. 

Contact information

Counties Manukau

Counties Manukau

NETP and ENSIPP Programme September Intake 2024

During your first year of practice, you will participate in the Counties Manukau Health (CM Health) Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP) programme.
The NETP programme is partly funded by Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) which is part of the Ministry of Health.
It is a requirement of HWNZ that CM Health collects the following data, including your result of any postgraduate requirements of the NETP Programme, and will only release it to HWNZ for reporting and auditing purposes and to meet the requirements of the Privacy Act (1993).

This form must be completed by 20 September 2024


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MidCentral

MidCentral

Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP) Programme

We have vacancies for graduate RNs in a range of settings. You will work in partnership with patients and their families/whānau using nursing knowledge, clinical judgement and professional attributes to assess health needs, provide care, and support people to manage their health. Participation in the Nursing Council of New Zealand–accredited MidCentral NETP Programme is pivotal in resourcing you to develop nursing competency. Programme information can be found in the NETP Programme Learning Framework and Handbook.

On completion of NETP, you will meet the competencies and standards of practice at competent level on the MidCentral Professional Development and Recognition programme (PDRP). You are supported with your career progression, and should you choose to commence a post-graduate study pathway in your second year of practice, you are prioritised to receive funding.

Contact Details
For further information about the MidCentral NETP programme please contact: netp@midcentraldhb.govt.nz

Entry to Specialist Practice (ESP) Programme - Mental Health

This programme is for new graduate and registered nurses entering mental health and addiction nursing. The programme combines theory, supported clinical experience, clinical preceptorship and supervision. Nurses on the New Entry to Specialist Practice (NESP): mental health and addiction nursing programme develop their professional practice and mental health and addiction nursing skills. Nurses receive a Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health and Addiction Nursing.

New graduates or nurses new to mental health and addiction, employed by a Te Whatu Ora service or NGO mental health and addiction service, or in a mental health role in a PHO, can apply for this programme.

Visit the Te Pou website www.tepou.co.nz and view the information about New Entry to Specialist Practice Mental Health & Addiction Nursing

Te Tai Tokerau

Te Tai Tokerau

Applications are made through the Nursing Advanced Choice of Employment (ACE) website.

Click here for eligibility criteria. 

Recruitment

NETP has two intakes per year January and September; on average we have minimum 20+ per intake.  Positions are vacancy based and are fixed term for 13 months.  

Placements are generally offered at:

  • Whangārei Hospital: Medical, Surgical, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Rehab, ED, theatre and ICU.
  • District Hospitals: Dargaville, Bay of Island, Kaitaia (as positions become available)

Those employed in Primary Health will be offered a position on the NETP programme i.e. Aged Residential Care facilities, GP practices, PHO, Iwi providers.

NETP

  • 12 Study days Orientation: preceptorship
  • Post Graduate Paper: Clinical Practice Development
  • Completion of PDRP portfolio
    Upon successful completion of the NETP programme, the graduate nurse will receive a Northland DHB NETP Certificate of Achievement.

NESP

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health and Addictions
  • Supervision
  • Completion of PDRP portfolio

Student Nursing Skills and Interventions

Click here to view suggested clinical learning activities for NorthTec nursing students.

Contact information:

   
NETP
  • 12 Study days Orientation: preceptorship
  • Post Graduate Paper: Clinical Practice Development
  • Completion of PDRP portfolio

Upon successful completion of the NETP programme, the graduate nurse will receive a Northland DHB NETP Certificate of Achievement.
NESP
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health and Addictions
  • Supervision
  • Completion of PDRP portfolio

Wairapapa

Wairapapa

Applications for the 2024 mid-year cohort will open Wednesday 3 April and close Tuesday 30 April at 12pm.

All applications for the Health New Zealand Wairarapa NETP/ENSIP programmes are through ACE Nursing for New Zealand Graduate Registered Nurses (acenz.net.nz)

Recruitment:

  •  Health NZ Wairarapa employs their graduates on a permanent contract at 0.8 FTE.

Orientation

  • Orientation provides the graduate with generic learning and an introduction to the NETP and ENSIP programmes. Following orientation, graduates will be orientated to their clinical placement area by their Charge Nurse Managers and Preceptors. It is anticipated that graduates will complete clinical orientation within 4-6 weeks of starting their employment as a new graduate.

Clinical areas of employment

  • Graduates will be informed of their clinical placement before starting the programme. Within clinical areas graduates will be expected to complete generic online learning packages, orientation workbooks, IV competency, and study days additional to and as well as NETP/ENSIP study days and assignments.

Preceptor programme

  • Graduates are supported in their clinical environment by a preceptor for the duration of their programme. As part of their professional development requirements all preceptors will have completed a preceptor workshop to support them in their role. Preceptors are also required to be working toward or completed proficient level on the Professional Development and Recognition Programme. For further information, refer to the Preceptorship page.

Professional Development and Recognition Programme (PDRP)

  • New graduates enter the PDRP as beginning practitioners however at the end of their programme, graduates will have demonstrated competent nursing practice - the next level on the PDRP. For more information regarding the PDRP please see the Professional Development Recognition Programme page.

NESP

The NESP is delivered by MHAIDS Capital Coast and Hutt Valley. Click here for more information.

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