Principal Advisor, Lived Experienced

**Contribute to transforming the future of health**:

- **Flexible working supported to balance your work and lifestyle**:

- **Join our national system design team and work from where you are**

Join Te Whatu Ora at a key time, where you will meaningfully contribute to our kaupapa of creating a more equitable, accessible, cohesive and people-centred health system. This mahi will improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in Aotearoa, and we've got an opportunity for you to be part of it
**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

The Pae Ora legislation gives us the mandate and opportunity to create a system of commissioning that has the needs of whānau and communities at its heart. In this new model, we are not ‘commissioners' holding the power. We are Te Tiriti o Waitangi partners and allies, we are listeners of diverse voices, we are holders of the space for communities and whānau to lead. We are a team of teams who live within and reflect the communities we serve.

We are responsible for designing community-based systems of care, agreeing health and wellbeing plans, executing those plans, and monitoring outcomes which then feed into the design process. We work in partnership with our Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora colleagues to shape system-wide public health services across the motu.

The Principal Advisor Lived Experience is a member of the Mentally Well National Design Team with a focus on Mental health. The Principal Advisor, Lived Experience is part of the Mentally Well team tasked with supporting, in partnership with Te Aka Whai Ora, the development and implementation of new models of service delivery to radically improve Māori Health and eliminate inequities. The Principal Advisor lived experience has strong relationship management and influencing skills.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā weako | Skills and experience**
- Demonstrated experience in providing consumer input into the design of services (3-5 years).
- Experience of mental health services either as a consumer directly or as a whanau member supporting whānau with mental health.
- Expertise in utilising the collective experiences to inform and influence strategy.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and in plain language.
- A successful track record of bringing people together and leading, coaching and mentoring others to achieve outcomes.
- Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills including an expert level of problem-solving ability, and a focus on innovative solutions.
- A commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
- Demonstrates a proven commitment to, and ability of, working in self-directed teams, and as part of a wider Team of Teams to achieve group/team objectives and outcomes.

**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, which will touch the lives of everyone in Aotearoa for generations.

Our name, Te Whatu Ora, means ‘the weaving of wellness'. Whatu is the combining 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 improved 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.