Maternity Quality and Safety Programme Coordinator

7 months ago


Dunedin, New Zealand Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Full time

**Otago and Southland**
- District-wide opportunity
- Permanent, part-time (0.7FTE) opportunity

**Mō te tūranga - About the role**

We have some exciting opportunities available to help shape our service provision with a district wide focus as a Maternity Quality and Safety Programme (MQSP) Coordinator.

Reporting to the Director of Midwifery, this role will see you interfacing with Maternity teams across the district to monitor and improve the provision of safe, high quality maternity care to Southern families. The key purpose of this role is to lead the maternity clinical quality and safety programme and ensure meaningful liaison with stakeholder groups.

This is a District role, so will require travel across the District regularly, you can be based in either Invercargill or Dunedin.

**Mōu ake - About you**

**To enable your success in this role you will also**:

- be a Registered Midwife and hold a current NZ annual practicing certificate
- be experienced with Project Management; Quality Improvement Systems; Audit; Research
- have good understanding of and commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi and the importance of reducing inequalities in health outcomes
- be a respected professional with ability to develop and maintain excellent relationships with LMCs, primary, secondary and tertiary maternity providers and maternity stakeholder groups in both community and hospital settings.
- have confidence with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth.

You will also require a full, clean driver's licence to be able to successfully carry out this role as travel will be required across the region on a regular basis.

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**Painga - Benefits**
- Continuous support for career development
- Subsidised gym membership and discounted health insurance
- Access to a range of retail discounts and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Find out more about our variety of benefits and discounts hereBenefits of joining us - Southern Health - He hauora, he kuru pounamu

**Mō mātou - About us**

Southern Midwifery support a very diverse maternity community spread across the region, providing care to whanau in urban, rural and remote areas of Southern region. To achieve our maternity and broader population health goals we work in partnership with Iwi, primary care and community providers, rural trust hospitals and education and research partners across the district.

Find out more about midwifery at Te Whatu Ora Southern here Midwifery - Southern Health - He hauora, he kuru pounamu

**Utu whānui - Salary range**

This role is covered by the terms and conditions of the expired DHBs / MERAS Multi-Employer Collective Agreement and the salary will be in accordance with the Midwifery Pay Equity Settlement Agreement, Senior Midwives Salary Scale, Grade 4, $108,785 - $120,199 p.a pro rata.

**Rā mōnehu - Closing date: Open**

**Pre-employment checks**
- Occupational health assessment
- Police vetting/Ministry of Justice safety checks
- Serious misconduct checks (previous Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities only)



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