Whaiora Whānau Lived Experience Director, Kāhui o

5 months ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland Full time

**2 years Fixed Term**:

- **Exciting New Position**:

- **Full-time/ 40 hours per week (Monday - Friday)**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

Our Kāhui o te Ihi | Mental Health & Addictions services within Te Toka Tumai offers a diverse range of services to children, adolescents and adults through inpatient, outpatient, home and community settings both locally and regionally.

Our services are provided via passionate and highly skilled multi-disciplinary teams which include psychiatrists, mental health nurses, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers and many other mental health experts. We’re fortunate to have an extremely engaged and collaborative team who, through their diverse skills and expertise, endeavour to create a welcoming environment for our clients and their whanau. We’re at the centre of an exciting period of innovation and development as we move increasingly with our partners across the continuum of mental health and wellbeing care.

In line with He Ara Awhina framework, our goal is a whānau dynamic mental health and addiction system and the shared perspective of equity, participation and leadership, access and options, safety and rights, connected care and effectiveness. In Te Toka Tumai this means ensuring we have lived experience at the strategic and directorate leadership level for collective accountability across specialist mental health programmes and systems.

The role will, at the strategic level, work as part of our directorate leadership team to ensure that the voice of lived experience for whaiora and whānau is embedded in the design, delivery and evaluation of systems, processes, engagement and quality improvement mechanisms across the Kāhui o te Ihi | Mental Health & Addictions Directorate.

This role is broadly accountable for:

- Ensuring a lived experience perspective is prioritised
- Promoting the principle of engagement of whaiora and their whānau in their care and treatment across the mental health directorate
- Enhancing awareness and understanding of the latest developments and evidence in mental health & addiction service delivery and in relation to whaiora and whānau engagement
- Leading and monitoring the development and implementation of a comprehensive framework for lived experience engagement in service design, delivery and improvement initiatives
- As such this role will help us ensure we meet the needs of whaiora and whānau, our Treaty obligations and to champion change that enables us to do this better in the future.

As the Whaiora Whānau Lived Experience Director you will guide and/or participate in key programmes and initiatives that aim to deliver significant health and well-being benefits to our whaiora and whānau by refining their health care experience.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of effective methods of ensure the voices and insights of our whaiora and whanau, ensuring co-design of strategies to improve health and well-being for individuals and communities.

For further details, please refer to the position description here.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**
- Tertiary Qualification
- 12-15 years lived experience
- Strong connections and understanding of cultural communities, especially Māori and Pacific
- Understands the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi
- Extensive knowledge and perspective of Mental Health & service delivery from a lived experience of using services perspective
- People focussed with a compassionate inclusive lens

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

We are part of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.

We are also an Accredited Employer with Immigration NZ (Please visit Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa for more information if you will be needing a Work Visa)

We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.

**He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here**

We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst th

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