Health Protection Technical Advisor

**Are you passionate about making a difference to the health and well-being of whānau and communities? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you**
- **Manaakitia ngā whānau mō pae ora - Enable whānau and communities to lead lives of wellness**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**
The National Public Health Service (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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Health Protection Technical Advisor** to join our regional Compliance and Health Protection Team based in Tauranga. The primary purpose of the role is to provide technical expertise, advice and coordination in support of priority health protection areas, such as communicable diseases, including infection prevention and control.

The role will work alongside statutory officers and others from across the regional service to enhance health protection and public health expertise and engagement into the wider health system and across sectors.

**Mōu | About you**

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- A relevant tertiary qualification and working knowledge of the health protection sector, particularly communicable disease and including infection control
- Outstanding relationship management expertise. Ability to work in complex environments with a wide range of diverse internal and external stakeholders
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and of the health sector and protection sector
- Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal)
- Strong experience in influencing people, leading work programmes, policy advice and facilitation, coaching, and mentoring staff
- Established relationship with iwi, hapū and other key stakeholders in the area
- Ability to practically champion and advance Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022, Tiriti o Waitangi, equity and the 5 Principles of WAI2575

**Ka kawea e koe | You will bring**:

- Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to taking ownership of your learning and growth in this area.

**Ko te mahi e tika ana mō te ao hurihuri nei | Work that suits today's ever
- changing world**

Health New Zealand |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.

**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, that will touch the lives of everyone in Aotearoa, and future generations.

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.

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 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