Employer Preferences
As part of your application you are expected to select up to 5 preferred employers. You are able to change the order in which you rank your employers and you can even delete or add one of your preferred employers if you wish. To do this, you’ll need to email the en@acenz.net.nz asking us to update your preferences for you. You cannot change your employer preferences yourself after applications close.
Employers taking part in ACE Enrolled Nurse
All 20 regions in New Zealand are expected to take part in the ACE Enrolled Nurse process though they may have vacancies opening up at different times. The regions are:
- Auckland
- Bay of Plenty
- Canterbury
- Capital & Coast & Hutt Valley
- Counties Manukau
- Hawkes Bay
- Lakes District
- MidCentral
- Nelson-Marlborough
- Northland
- South Canterbury
- Southern
- Tairawhiti
- Tarankai
- Waikato
- Wairarapa
- Waitemata
- Whanganui
- West Coast
Practice Settings
Once you have chosen your preference of employer you will need to select up to five practice settings or areas of specialist practice. The 18 practice settings that are available have been nationally agreed by key ACE stakeholders. If there are sub-specialties you know you would like to practice in, for example, please highlight this in your cover letter as employers pay close attention to your cover letter for information regarding your practice setting preferences.
For each employer selected, you should make every effort to explain the reasons why you have chosen your Practice settings and why you have set these in your order of 1/2/3/4/5. After applications close you can no longer change your practice setting preferences.
List of Practice Settings
- Aged Residential Care
- Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation
- Cardiac Care (Includes Coronary Care Units and Cardiothoracic)
- Disability Health
- District Nursing
- Emergency & Trauma
- Health of Older People Within the DHB
- Intensive Care (Includes High Dependency)
- Medical
- Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service (MHAIDS)
- Neonatal
- Oncology
- Paediatrics, Child Health and Youth Health
- Perioperative Care (Theatre)
- Primary Health Care (Including Practice Nursing, Department of Corrections, GP Clinics, Accident & Medical Centres, Iwi Providers, Pacific Providers, School Nursing, Well Child Providers, Plunket, NGO's and Hospice)
- Public Health Nursing
- Rural Health
- Surgical