Technical Head, Department of Forensic Pathology
5 days ago
**New Zealand’s leading Forensic Pathology Service**:
- **Opportunity to develop and lead a whanau-focussed team in a medicolegal environment**:
- **Join a well-established leadership team and work in a collaborative and supportive environment**
**The Opportunity | Te whiwhinga mahi**
We are looking for an experienced manager to lead our team in this challenging and rewarding position based at Auckland City Hospital.
In this role, you will work alongside the Clinical Director, Forensic Pathology and Operations Manager with the responsibility for the delivery of the administration, scientific and technical components of the service, including accreditation, within a medico-legal coronial framework legislated by the Coroner’s Act 2006
This will involve providing leadership and managing the technical and administration staff, resources, and systems in order to achieve the department’s business and operational goals.
The key responsibilities include:
- Maintaining operational service requirements including resources and staffing to ensure continuous service delivery
- Assist in leading the service to deliver outstanding high quality, operational efficiency, effectiveness, and service for the population of Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau
- Promoting quality coronial and family focused outcomes
- Responsible for on-going staff development
- Ensuring cultural competency and service delivery
- Support, initiate and implement process improvements
- Maintain strong relationships within the organisation, particularly with LabPlus
- Develop and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, including with overseas services
For further details, please refer to the position description here.
**Important Skills | Nga Pūkenga Motuhake**
This position is suited to an experienced manager with strong interpersonal skills and mortuary operational knowledge, who can clearly communicate, while inspiring commitment to the goals of the department and the organisation. An understanding of the New Zealand coronial context and cultural obligations is required. You will have qualifications and experience allowing registration with the NZ Medical Laboratory Sciences Council either as a Medical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Laboratory Technician. Previous mortuary operational experience is essential.
You will possess a well-developed ability to work professionally with a range of internal and external stakeholders. We know you’ll be proactive, highly committed and service driven and be able to meet the demands of a fast-paced role with ease. You will be surefooted and need to be across the necessary detail to manage complex issues and agile enough to make the most of opportunities.
**Our Organisation | Ko wai mātou**
The department is the largest and busiest forensic pathology department in NZ, dealing with over 1000 coronial autopsies per annum, covering the full spectrum from homicides & suspicious deaths to sudden natural deaths, and also providing a key role in mass fatality events.
The department operates a 7 day a week on-call service covering the upper half of the North Island and is accredited for training by the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Within the department are a dedicated CT scanner suite, infectious suite and homicide theatre. The department also provides a busy regional perinatal post-mortem service.
The department is staffed by full-time forensic technicians, forensic pathologists, perinatal pathologists, registrars, administration staff, Quality/IT and an Operations Manager.
The service is accredited by IANZ and is only the second department outside of the USA to hold accreditation by the National Association of Medical Examiners.
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.
**Why you will enjoy working here | He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu**
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