Clients - Looking for Temporary Staff?
Selwyn Nursing Bureau is a specialist provider of temporary healthcare assistants and registered nurses to rest homes, hospitals and dementia care facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. We welcome new clients.
By accessing our pool of Bureau staff, on a temporary (long and short shift, short- or long-term) basis, you will be using healthcare assistants and registered nurses who are dedicated and professional. All will have received training at The Selwyn Foundation. All staff are qualified and facility-ready.
In addition, we do our best to accommodate your needs if you wish to have consistency and "the same staff" back on assignment.
Charges are made for the client assignment. Click here for a copy of our terms and conditions.
Selwyn Nursing Bureau is owned by Selwyn Care Limited, a charitable company owned by The Selwyn Foundation (a registered charitable trust whose beginnings date back more than fifty years.) We are wholly New Zealand owned and operated.
Book staff through our online booking form.
| Or, for urgent staffing needs (staff for the next 24 hours) and |
Benefits to Clients
When you use a temporary healthcare assistant or registered nurse from Selwyn Nursing Bureau, every effort will be made for you to be assigned the same caregiver or registered nurse so that you benefit from consistency of care.
Mandatory Training
All Selwyn Nursing Bureau staff provided to clients are required to attend regular training covering the mandatory requirements indicated by the Health and Disability Commission. Staff are paid to attend training and are not offered work at any client facility until and unless they are trained to these industry standards.
Annual mandatory training includes: Pain management, back care, code of rights, challenging behaviour, infection control, abuse and neglect, incident reporting, hoist, fire emergency, hand washing and medication.
Two-yearly mandatory training includes: Continence, cultural safety, chemical safety, harassment prevention, communication and documentation, death, palliative care, restraint, resuscitative status, spirituality, skin management, wound care and complaints procedure.
ACE Qualified Healthcare Assistants
On average, only 20% of New Zealand assistants have a formal NZQA qualification. When you book a caregiver from Selwyn Nursing Bureau, every effort will be made for you to be assigned a temporary staff member with at least two years' experience and/or qualified to at least ACE core standard.
