Director- Office of The National Director- Hss

Join Te Whatu Ora at a key time of change where you will meaningfully contribute to our kaupapa of creating a more equitable, accessible, cohesive and people-centred health system. This is mahi that will improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in Aotearoa, and we've got an opportunity for you to be part of it.
**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

At this pivotal time in Aotearoa's Health Sector, we are seeking an experienced leader charged with leading a transformational programme of work that provides strategic and operational support and advice to the National Director, to support the successful operation of Hospital & Specialist Services. They will have collective accountability for maintaining and enhancing Hospital and Specialist Services and implement supporting Te Whatu Ora priorities. The Director Office of the National Director is a vital member of the Hospital and Specialist Services Senior Leadership team within Te Whatu Ora and will engage with a diverse and influential range of stakeholders at a senior level within Te Whatu Ora, Te Aka Whai Ora and across the New Zealand health system

The Director will provide trusted and respected leadership through an inspirational leadership style that enables a new, nationally distributed group to work “as one” and supporting Te Whatu Ora's strategic priorities. In this role, you will build and maintain effective relationships across H&SS by providing calm and approachable support for the successful resolution of day-to-day issues, and an escalation point as appropriate.

**Mōu | About you**

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- Proven experience successfully leading clinical teams through change and achieving improved results while navigating a highly nuanced and complex system
- Experience managing clinical variation to improve outcomes for patients and whānau.
- The ability to lead change across the health sector with experience working across boundaries, inter-agency, inter-professionally inter-sectorial.
- Can demonstrate they have given meaningful effect to the expectations outlined in Te Tiriti o Waitangi in their position(s)/at a leadership level.
- Has proven experience in programme management, experience with ministerial, Board and executive level engagement, presentation, reporting and facilitation and can demonstrate experience providing leadership and senior expertise to inform future decision making for work programmes that best support the delivery of the acute care priorities.

**Ka kawea e koe | You will bring**:

- Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth

**Ko te mahi e tika ana mō te ao hurihuri nei |Work that suits today's ever -changing world**

Te Whatu Ora supports flexible and hybrid working for our kaimahi. In roles that don't require an in-person element, we encourage you to ‘work from where you are.' We want our national teams to be made up of diverse people from across the motu, just like our health system.

**Tō mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi mai |Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion**

Our name, Te Whatu Ora, means ‘the weaving of wellness'. Whatu is the combining together of people, resources, organisations, thoughts and actions for the betterment and wellbeing of all. Whatu is also a direct reference to the pupil of the eye, and the vision required of the new entity and system.

At Te Whatu Ora we acknowledge and respect our people's diversity and spiritual needs, ensuring a safe workplace that is a whānau orientated and supportive environment. We are working towards a system that better meets the complex demands of a growing population, addresses the persistent inequalities experienced by Māori and ensures greater access, experience and outcomes for those traditionally not well served by the system - Māori, Pacific and Disabled People.

**Tō tūranga i roto i Te Whatu Ora | Your place in Te Whatu Ora**

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply