Group Manager

Contribute to transforming the future of health in this Group Manager role
- Full time, permanent opportunity
- Flexible working options - based from anywhere in Aotearoa with travel as needed
- Share your skills and experiences while making a difference as we progress through change

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 well-being of everyone in Aotearoa, and we've got an opportunity for you to be part of it.
Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
The Hospital and Specialist Services (HSS) is the largest business unit within Te Whatu Ora and is responsible for the day-to-day care and operational delivery of safe, quality hospital and specialist services across the motu, as well as national priorities and system change.
The team is arranged across four regions, led by Regional Directors to ensure national priorities are delivered in way that works for local communities. This group works in close partnership with Te Aka Whai Ora to ensure that Māori health outcomes and equity of access is improved.
Supporting the work of the regions, there are a small number of national, strategic business units within HSS. The purpose of the System Delivery business unit is to provide direct leadership for the performance of the HSS system and to ensure a coherent, nationwide approach to service delivery.
The Group Manager - Acute Demand and System Pressures is a senior role within the System Delivery team, responsible for leading and maintaining a robust relationship with the Ministerial advisers and as well as at district level. As a member of the System Delivery leadership team, the Group Manager - Acute Demand & System Pressures will work with other HSS national teams and regional teams to deliver whole of system strategies and solutions for Acute Demand & System Pressures.
Mōu | About you
In this role, you will be a key influencer who creates strong relationships with Hospital and Specialist Services teams on a local, regional and national level as well as the Ministerial advisers to ensure HSS delivers its strategies and solutions for Acute Demand & System Pressures. You would be skilled at both contributing to and operationalising strategy.
Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience
- A relevant graduate and post-graduate qualification
- At least 5 years of experience in either a hospital and/or wider health system delivery environment
- Knowledge of successful Acute Demand and System Pressures strategies
- Proven experience successfully leading large diverse teams through change and achieving improved results while navigating a highly nuanced and complex system

**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.
Nau mai, uru mai | Come and join us
When you join us, you become part of transforming the health system. This is a once in a life-time change,that will touch the lives of everyone in Aotearoa, and future generations.
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.
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 mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi mai | Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply