Senior Advisor, Variations Programme

4 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Senior Advisor / Analyst, Variations Programme**

**Fixed Term / Secondment Opportunity (Parental Leave Cover) | 1 FTE | Wellington**

**Who we are**:
Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality and Safety Commission (Te Tāhū Hauora) is a stand-alone Crown entity with a board responsible to the Minister of Health. Te Tāhū Hauora is responsible for assisting providers, both private and public, across the whole health and disability sector to improve service safety and quality and therefore outcomes for all those who use these services in Aotearoa New Zealand. **Read more about our values**.**

Join us as we partner with clinicians, providers and whānau to improve health and disability support service to improve health and disability support services in New Zealand.

**The role**:
As the Senior Advisor / Analyst, Variations Programme you will provide expert, trusted advice to Te Tāhū Hauora on variation in healthcare service use and provision.

This role will work predominantly on the Atlas of Healthcare Variation (The Atlas of Healthcare Variation displays easy-to-use maps, graphs, tables and commentaries that highlight variations by geographic area in the provision and use of specific health services and health outcomes). More information of the Atlas can be found **here.**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Review evidence, identify existing quality indicators, see what data is available in existing datasets, assess potential new datasets, and scope a first iteration of indicators in the topic of interest to develop a new Atlas of Healthcare Variation.
- Analysis: You will work with analysts to develop clinically meaningful indicators, undertake basic analyses to see what the data are telling us
- Communication: You will communicate and share the results of new and updated Atlases. Stakeholder engagement is important to ensure that Atlas findings are acted on.
- Update existing Atlas domains: The role will work with the team to update existing Atlas domains, including their translation into the Measures Library.
- The role will also support the team in other relevant work, such as providing input to other products like the Measures Library, the Quality Dashboards and Quality & Safety Markers (QSM).

This role is fixed term until July 2025 as parental leave cover.

**About you**:
We are seeking someone who demonstrates initiative and the ability to champion the tasks they undertake. Ideally you will have or be developing skills in the following areas:

- Ability to clearly tell a story with complex data, concisely and in plain language.
- Intermediate Excel
- Enjoy problem solving and have a high attention to detail
- Strong understanding of New Zealand's health sector.
- Experience working with expert advisory groups or committees.
- Well-developed writing skills and experience in undertaking evidence synthesis or literature reviews
- A demonstrated understanding of the unintended consequences of reporting health services data

**How to apply**

This role presents a unique opportunity to contribute to improving health outcomes and addressing health inequities in Aotearoa New Zealand, if you have the passion and expertise to make a difference, we encourage you to apply.

Please check out the position description on Govt Jobs NZ (ref: SAVP2411)

Applications close **Wednesday, 13 November 2024.**

Salary band 18 (85% $118,171 to 100% $139,025)


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