Regional Communicable Disease Development and

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 National Public Health Service (NPHS) within 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.

We have a permanent opportunity for a **Regional Communicable Diseases Development and Delivery Lead **working under the leadership of the Kaitātaki Health Protection, working with professional leaders and clinical partners to develop regional programmes of work.

The primary organisational impact of the position is to provide health protection leadership supporting the development and programme delivery for communicable disease aspects of health protection across the region, meeting the Service's performance expectations

**Mōu | About you**

You will be a strong leader and influencer with experience in health programme development, planning, performance reporting, machinery of government, cross-sector working and effective influence. You are able to lead change, innovation, capability development and quality improvement across a service and use sound judgement to develop options and provide advice.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- Minimum 5 years programme, or project, development experience
- Demonstrated broad health protection or public health experience is highly desired
- Demonstrable experience in developing innovative ways of working and leading through others to achieving this
- Experience in leading change and/or service and quality improvement initiatives

**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.

**Tō mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi mai |Our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion**

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.

At Te Whatu Ora we acknowledge and respect our people's diversity and spiritual needs, ensuring a safe workplace that is a whānau orientated and supportive environment. 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 tūranga i roto i Te Whatu Ora | Your place in Te Whatu Ora**

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply