Regional Clinical Director Nursing

7 days ago


Gisborne, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Full time

**Senior Clinical Leadership opportunity with the Te Manawa Taki Regional team**
- **Permanent full-time role**
- **Location: any NPHS office location in Te Manawa Taki**

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders.
We provide essential hospital, specialist, and community health services across 80+ locations from large urban centres to rural towns and remote communities.

Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders by delivering equitable, accessible, and innovative care.

**About the Role**

We have a pivotal senior clinical leadership role within the NPHS Te Manawa Taki Regional team as Regional Clinical Director Nursing (RCDN). Reporting to the Regional Director NPHS, the RCDN will provide nursing leadership and advice with responsibility for supporting the delivery of safe and effective Regional public health services, lead professional frameworks, reviewing and approving resource allocation, research, and education and provide organisation - wide assurance, leadership, and quality governance for the clinical teams within the regional public health service.

As a member of the Regional Leadership Group and the Regional Clinical and Professional Leadership Team, the RCDN will provide nursing leadership, oversight and direction into the development and delivery of strategy, and services across the region to enable the realisation of Pae Ora. They will work closely with others across the sector to enable equity for Māori, Pacific, people with disabilities, and other communities. They will lead and support the development of the nursing workforce within the regional public health service.

**About the Team/Service/ Location**

The NPHS within Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora, work towards Pae Ora (healthy futures) for all by engaging with the wider determinants that impact people's health, focusing on oranga/wellbeing, prevention, protection, and population-level intervention. We are connected across boundaries to deliver public health services that are nationally planned, regionally delivered and locally tailored.

**About you**

- A relevant graduate and post-graduate qualification
- Experience in implementing Te Tiriti o Waitangi in action
- New Zealand Registered Nurse with Current Annual Practicing Certificate
- Minimum 5 years' experience in senior nursing leadership roles
- Demonstrated broad nursing experience in public health of at least 10 years
- Experience in leading change, and service and quality improvement initiatives
- Experience in developing professional frameworks and governance systems
- Proven supervision, mentoring, coaching, and teaching skills
- Experience working in clinical-management and inter-disciplinary partnerships to support optimal team and service outcomes
- Demonstrable understanding of kawa and tikanga and a commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi & some experience working in partnership with iwi & Māori communities

**Working for Health New Zealand**

**How to Apply**

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



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