Section Head Echocardiology

3 weeks ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury Full time

**Permanent Full time (40 hours per week)**:

- ** Cardiology leadership opportunity**:

- ** Step 7, on the APEX Sonographer pay scale**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

The Section Head will be responsible for the day to day operations of the Cardiac Sonographers and Echo Assistants and trainees for maintaining an efficient high quality technical service to support cardiology service demands.

A key focus is to support, enable and develop the Cardiology Sonography team.

**Ko wai koe | About You**

In this role, you will be responsible for:

- Support the Echo team to perform their roles and ensure staff are working at top of scope
- Fosters a team environment and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration
- Demonstrates and maintains clinical skills and knowledge at an advanced level
- Support professional development initiatives and opportunities to meet service needs
- Promote a positive and inclusive work environment, nurturing the professional growth and development of team members
- Oversee the implementation of quality and safety standards for best practices and clinical audits

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- As a Section Head you will have a strong clinical background
- Your expert communication, interpersonal skills and proven ability to engage people at all levels will see you work effectively and efficiently with a diverse group of teams to provide leadership and clinical support to the staff, patients and their families/whanau.
- By utilising your advanced knowledge and clinical skills in collaboration with your teams, the multidisciplinary team and other external agencies you will contribute to cardiology services provided.
- You can problem solve and manage complex situations as they arise, finding effective solutions.

**Essential skills for the role**:

- Tertiary qualification in an appropriate field e.g. DMU (Cardiac), QUT (Cardiac Echo)
- Tertiary degree in science with major in anatomy and physiology and physics
- Medical Radiation Technologists Board (MRTB) registration preferred
- Have relevant technical / medical experience
- Computer literacy

**Mō mātou | About Us**

“Ko ngā tāngata, te mātua mahi - Putting people at the heart of all we do”

Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand, leads the day-to-day running of our health system across New Zealand, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels. It weaves the functions of the 20 former District Health Boards into its regional divisions and district offices, ensuring continuity of services in the health system.

Here in Waitaha, Canterbury we deliver health services to the almost 600,000 people that live in the Canterbury region. We are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles by ensuring our partnership with Māori are at the forefront of all our conversations.

**Ngā hua | Benefits of working at Te Whatu Ora **[Health New Zealand]

When you work at the Te Whatu Ora, you are part of a wider whānau that will support you along your journey. We offer great coaching, mentoring and learning outcomes for all staff. We are always improving our facilities across all campuses and have amazing discounts from select retailers, restaurants and business. **We offer relocation packages for international applicants.**

We have a range of clinical and non-clinical roles at Health New Zealand, there could be a place for you.

Please visit our careers website for other roles and find your ideal fit within Health New Zealand.

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