Spatial Designer

Full-time, Permanent role, Monday to Friday (40 hours per week)
- Excellent working knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft and Sketch-up
- Great learning and development opportunities
- 5 Weeks Annual Leave and 3 'My Days' between Christmas and New Year
- Located in Grafton with Parking on-site

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
As a Spatial Designer within Ara Manawa your primary responsibilities will be to deliver key, future focused design jobs within initiatives that deliver significant sustained benefit in organisational performance for Te Toka Tumai Auckland. The environments in which we deliver care are the first frame of reference for patient and whānau arriving at our hospitals; we are looking for someone who can champion the value of healing environments.
This role will contribute to spatial design research and innovation as well as supporting build projects within Auckland Hospital. The role will maximise the value of design skills and outputs, ensuring that experiences, spaces and systems are designed in a considered and sensitive manner, driven by patient, whānau, and staff needs. It will enable better experiences for patients, improved clinical outcomes, and better work-places for staff.
For further details, please refer to the position description here.
Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

**The successful person will be/have**:
- Well-versed in Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a commitment to biculturalism
- Knowledgeable of the health system context and committed to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori
- Excellent spatial design skills, you are energised by a challenge and confident in user-centric design methodologies such as co-design & human centred design
- Creative and imaginative, with both an eye for detail and an ability to scale out and see the big picture
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills, confident in engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders and bringing people alongside you on the design journey
- High emotional intelligence and compassion for others
- Motivated and self-directed, as well as having excellent collaborative skills - online and in person
- Able to manage and deliver a complex workload, with detailed action plans and documentation of your process
- Excellent working knowledge and experience of Microsoft, Sketch-up and Adobe Creative Suite (Revit & ArchiCAD a bonus)
- A qualification in design (spatial, interior, architecture or human centred), or equivalent relevant tertiary qualification
- Five years' experience working on design projects that creatively bring about improvement and change

If you would like the opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of our Auckland community and share Auckland DHB's values of Haere Mai (welcome), Manaaki (respect), Tūhono (together) and Angamua (aim high) we would love to hear from you.
Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation
We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children's Hospital, located in central Auckland.
We are part of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand's national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.
We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.
He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here
We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.
For more information on what we offer, please click here.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply
To view details about our recruitment process, click here.