Nurse Director

Waikato Hospital
- 80 hours per fortnight
- Permanent

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

**About the Role**

As a key member of the directorate clinical and operational partnership, your role is to provide an environment that supports the delivery of safe, high-quality and effective health care within allocated resources to your directorate.

While the role reports operationally to the Operations Director, by working in a partnership model with the Operations Director, and Medical Directors that will foster strong inter-professional teams delivering high standards of care and are equally responsible for the success of the directorate. This role will provide professional and clinical advice to the Operations Director. The Nurse Director role will be provided with professional oversight and connection via the Office of Chief Nurse Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato.

The role will line manage the Nurse Managers who will support this role to ensure all components of Care Capacity Demand Management are understood implemented and monitored.

**About the Service**

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora - Waikato provides health services in the Waikato region to a combined population of over 400,000 people, and tertiary-level services to the Midland region, with a population of over 840,000. Waikato Hospital in Hamilton provides the most specialised and complex medical care and is recognised as both a tertiary and accredited training hospital. Our people are fundamental to our success; we have a diverse workforce of over 7,000 employees who directly reflect the diversity in our communities, providing care and support to more than 100,000 patients each year.

**About you**
- Have 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.
- Be able to demonstrate leadership experience in terms of managing complex dynamics associated with multi-professional groups.
- Assess and make effective decisions under pressure in complex situations and use your own judgement to problem solve.
- Understand how to use data to improve quality, performance and growth.
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy within New Zealand.
- Demonstrate highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including the capacity to negotiate, resolve conflict and positively influence and motivate others.

**It is essential that you have**:

- Registration with the Nursing Council of New Zealand.
- A current practising certificate.
- A masters qualification.
- Expert level on the Nurses Professional Development and Recognition Programme (PDRP) or if appropriate has achieved senior nurse level on the Senior Nurses PDRP.
- 7+ years experience in leadership in a complex health-related environment with surgical and theatre clinical expertise.

**Working for Health New Zealand**

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

**Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion**

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