Head of Department

3 days ago

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

**Health New Zealand Tairāwhiti led hospital services, community oral health services and any other mobile/satellite bases within Tairāwhiti region (across age range)**:

- **Key senior leadership, high impact position with**great opportunity to promote innovation & drive improvement process**:

- **Permanent, Part-time position (24 hours per fortnight)**

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.
**About the Role**

An opportunity has arisen for this significant Clinical Leadership role in Oral Health. The focus of this role (in management partnership) is:

- To provide strategic and clinical leadership and advice for Dental Therapists / Oral Health Therapists, Dentists, Managers and the Community Oral Health Service as a whole (across the life span/under Service Specifications)
- To fully participate in clinical and quality development and management of the hospital specialist dental and community oral health service, including attending clinical management meetings, assisting to develop clinical guidelines and policies, and contributing to an annual workplan to cover the clinical priorities of the service
- To lead and provide education sessions, workshops and guidance for oral health staff as required for safe clinical practice and to achieve priorities in the clinical workplan
- To work with other leaders, professional networks and agencies to improve equity, access to care and system improvement
- Lead and contribute to Business Cases
- To analyse, monitor and present oral health data, statistics and clinical variation indicators to inform workplan priorities
- To work with the community oral health service to progressively implement preventative models of care
- To provide community assessment/triage and treatment clinics including general anaesthetics, for children, young people and referred adults, where this is out of scope for oral health therapists and dental therapists.
- To improve access to clinical dentistry by providing oral health care, that may include care under sedation, for selected 0-17 year olds from community sites and any other age groups as required
- To actively facilitate the care pathway through secondary and tertiary oral health services
- To participate in local, regional and national working groups where possible to provide input in wider oral health initiatives and directions and to bring back learnings to Tairāwhiti (including Public Health Promotion/Prevention).

To know more about the role, please click the position description

**About the Team/Service/ Location**

Our diverse and innovative team is passionate about the ‘why’ they do what they do and the positive influence they can make in the lives of our tamariki and whānau. We are driven and focused on improving equity for our community, with a ‘whatever it takes’ approach.

Our ‘Tairāwhiti Way of Working’ involves us working collectively across agencies to enable whānau to flourish. There is a shift to interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary approach, which identifies needs of whānau and the best people to provide support—requesting the right support at the right time in the right place. The workforce shares information, works flexibly and collectively to reduce barriers and provide the support that the whānau needs and requests. The transdisciplinary approach reduces barriers and improves access for whānau as teams walk beside people until they get what they need and are not bound by outdated service definitions, with criteria that reflects service structures rather than the needs of children and whānau.

**About you**
- Registration with Dental Council of New Zealand therefore inclusive of scope of practice
- A current practicing certificate with the Dental Council of New Zealand
- A certificate of Good Standing from the Dental Council of New Zealand
- Bachelor of Dental Surgery (Otago) or equivalent qualification to be eligible for registration in New Zealand
- Previous clinical practice across all age groups (particularly children)
- Minimum 3 years public dentistry experience
- Preferably applicant must have demonstrated experience working within Hospital Specialist Dental Services / Familiar with Service Specifications and framework for Public sector oral health provision for high needs and vulnerable New Zealanders
- Applicant will have leadership experience/Ability to develop business cases and present to a wide audience
- Demonstrated ability to work across the system with service providers and funders
- Demonstrated quality leadership and initiatives to improve equity and outcomes (including evidence of use of audit and evaluation)
- Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of you

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