Quality and Patient Safety Advisor

11 hours ago

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

**Quality, Patient, Safety Advisor**
**0.8 FTE**
- This is an exciting opportunity to share your healthcare knowledge, skills and experience in quality and patient safety with a team who are passionate about making a difference for patients, whanau and staff.
- This is your opportunity to be directly involved in ensuring we are providing quality patient care and effect change

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

**About the Role**

The Quality, Patient, Safety Unit is seeking to recruit a suitable applicant to the role of Quality, patient, Safety Advisor. This role has specific responsibility for working with clinical services teams within Health New Zealand, Te Whatu Ora Taranaki hospitals to advise, support and enable effective quality and patient safety. The successful applicant will also be key a part of, or lead core projects and clinical audit.


**About the Team/Service/ Location**

Our Quality, patient, safety team consists of;
Quality, Patient Safety Advisors and Coordinators,

Medication Safety Advisor,

Risk Management Advisor and

Infection, Protection Control Clinical Nurse Specialists.

**About you**

You will have the opportunity to:

- Advocate for patients and their whanau/ families to access essential health services;
- Work directly with clinical / non-clinical staff to develop skills in incident and complaints management;
- Contribute to a culture where patient quality and safety are key priorities;
- Work within the quality improvement model to effect change;
- Help facilitate change and improvements within clinical services.

The skills and experience required are detailed in the position descriptions and include:

- Broad knowledge of healthcare systems and ideally a clinical or similar qualification.
- Highly developed analytical and critical thinking skills
- Ability to work with others in a partnership model.
- Track record of being able to influence others.

**Working at Health New Zealand**

**How to Apply**

Whilst Health New Zealand is undergoing change, affected employees will be given preference and priority for this position.

**Job details**:
**Job Reference**:

TAR06192**Location**:

- North Island - Taranaki - New Plymouth**Job type**:

Permanent Part time**Expertise**:

- Non-clinical - Quality and Risk - Quality and Risk**Closes**:

14-Sep-2025

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