Employers and Practice Settings

ACE gives you the opportunity to apply to multiple employers at once. As part of this you need to reflect on which practice setting you wish to work in. Choose settings that you are interested in, and ideally ones you have had experience in during your student clinical placements. Then check which employers are offering RN roles in those settings in this round. Some options are not available in some regions or with some employers so check carefully and consider what combinations are possible. 

Think about where you currently live and if you would be willing to move to take up a job. What is more important to you, the location, the employer or the practice setting? 

You can choose up to five (5) practice settings. We recommend using all your choices  

The practice settings you can choose from are: 

• Aged Residential Care (which includes aspects of primary care and high and complex needs) 
• Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation
• Cardiac Care (Includes Coronary Care Units and Cardiothoracic) 
• Disability Health 
• District Nursing 
• Emergency & Trauma 
• Health of Older People within Health NZ |Te Whatu Ora
• Intensive Care (Includes High Dependency) 
• Medical 
• Mental Health & Addictions (NESP)  Choose this as your first preference if you want to work in mental health 
• Neonatal
• Oncology 
• Paediatrics, Child Health and Youth Health
• Perioperative Care (Theatre) 
• Primary Health Care (Including Practice Nursing, GP Clinics, Accident & Medical Centres/Urgent care, Hauora Māori Providers, Iwi providers, Pacific Providers, School Nursing, Well Child Providers, Plunket, NGOs and Hospices)
• Public Health Nursing
• Rural Health 
• Surgical 
• Woman's Health

Remember, you can change practice settings once you have one or two years experience as an RN. Your first setting will not define your entire career. 

The following employers are part of ACE.  You can read more about each employer on their website.

All the listed employers participate in the end of year match process. A smaller number of employers participate in the mid-year match.

• Select a range of employers that you would like to work for. You have up to 3 choices; it will be advantageous to you to select 3 options.
• Each Health NZ I Te Whatu Ora district counts as a different employer for the ACE process.
• Employers have 6 weeks to shortlist, interview and rank their graduates. Each employer is responsible for this process and each employer may perform this process slightly differently.

ACE staff are not involved with shortlisting, interviews and job offers and can’t answer any questions about that part of the process.