General Practice Liaison

10 hours ago

Whangarei, New Zealand Manaia Health PHO Full time

Are you a relationship driven person and able to or experienced in building and maintaining strong positive relationships with stakeholders. Our role is centered around relationships, regular interaction and supporting our primary and community care health professionals in general practice. This is an exciting opportunity to either develop or expand your knowledge of primary and community care, and to support the future improvements in primary care service delivery and access to community healthcare services for our Northland population.

**About Mahitahi Hauora**

Mahitahi Hauora is a primary health entity underpinned by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, our Kaupapa includes ensuring whanau and communities are able to achieve self-determined wellbeing, access to the services they determine they need, and to live a long and healthy life. We work collaboratively with community, primary healthcare providers and key partners to support general practices, Māori health providers and social sector agencies, in achieving better health outcomes for our Tai Tokerau population.

Mahitahi Hauora offers a structured yet relaxed working environment, autonomous working yet strong team engagement and support. We are all connected by our desire to support a better healthcare system for Northland so our population can gain greater health benefits from access to services, supporting our primary care clinicians in practice, to providing resources and education to our colleagues in community. Staff parking onsite, comparable remuneration and great physical working conditions are just some of the things our staff enjoy.

**The Position**

This position is based in Whangarei and supports a number of practices and providers across the greater Whangarei region. You will work alongside your General Practice Liaison colleagues in supporting practices and providers across primary healthcare programmes, improvement methodologies and equity strategies. This is a varied role that provides opportunity for growth in skill set, relationship management and quality and service improvement initiatives.

You will need to be passionate and enthusiastic in your approach, understand the primary healthcare and community environment and be prepared to be flexible and innovative.

This role would be ideally suited to someone who has a current or previous background in health, and who may be looking for something a little different or moving away from direct clinical work but still want to be involved in the health or community sector. If this sounds like you, and you have what is needed to be considered for this role, then please apply.
- A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience of primary/community healthcare
- Your experience in developing and manging relationships with health professionals
- An intermediate to advanced level of computer literacy across MS Office 365, Teams
- Experience in implementing change in an organisation
- Evidence of a confident communicator both spoken and written
- An understanding of and commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
- Your understanding and knowledge of equitable health outcomes
- A current full NZ drivers licence

You must be a NZ Citizen or Permanent resident or have a current open NZ work visa.

While not essential, an understanding or experience in change management strategies, and improvement methodology would be desirable, and some experience in primary care practice management systems and analytics would be useful.

Download an Application for Employment form, and a detailed position description from below.

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