Director Specialist Mental Health

Contribute to transforming the future of health in this pivotal role.

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**

During this pivotal time in Aotearoa's Health Sector, we are seeking an experienced leader, charged with leading a transformational programme of work that influences the collective accountability for maintaining and enhancing Hospital and Specialist Services, and prioritising the implementation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and supporting Te Whatu Ora priorities. The **Director, Specialist Mental Health & Addictions** is a senior member of the Hospital and Specialist Services Senior Leadership team within Te Whatu Ora and will support the transformation of the Mental Health & Addictions System, and influences and supports the leadership team, including regional directors to deliver and improve services underpinned by prioritization of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and supporting Te Whatu Ora priorities and working in partnership with Te Aka Whai Ora and the Commissioning leads.

The Director will provide strategic and expert leadership for mental health, addictions and associated services across Hospital and Specialist Services to achieve equity of outcome, with a particular focus on outcomes among our Māori communities and other priority populations. Working in partnership with the H&SS leadership and colleagues at Te Aka Whai Ora, you will support service delivery, risk management and improvement. In addition, the Director will provide specialist advice related to mental health, addictions and intellectual disability issues to Regional Director's and their senior teams to ensure delivery against agreed targets and priorities while supporting work to improve access for whānau affected by disability and location.

**Mōu | About you**

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- Relevant post graduate qualification in health or mental health professional qualification or similar, desirable but not essential.
- A strong understanding of NZ's health system with experience providing local &/or regional professional and clinical governance leadership
- 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

**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