Medical Director - Primary and Community at Southern District Health Board (Invercargill/Dunedin), Otago

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Dunedin or Invercargill based

Salary: ASMS MECA 2022 (NZD 170,369 - 250,560)

• Join us as we change the future of healthcare in Southern NZ (permanent 0.7 FTE negotiable)
• Close knit, supportive team
• Negotiable start date

Following an internal promotion, we are looking for applications for a Medical Director for the Primary and Community Directorate to join our team. This is a district wide role and your main task will be to ensure the delivery of high quality health and disability services. As this is a district role, there will be travel involved around the Southern Region

Mō te tūranga - About the role

Your role is critical in ensuring Te Whatu Ora Southern continues to be a leader in providing quality and equitable health services to our community. You will provide medical leadership both strategically and operationally, ensuring that we maintain strong quality and safety protocols, procedures and processes while at the same time developing strategy that will explore innovative ways of providing care to our patients amidst current social and economic problems. This role will also ensure we actively support the development, professional conduct and welfare of our Specialist Medical Officers and our wide range of Primary care health professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the implementation of our Primary and Community Services strategy and Rural Health strategy
• Oversee the Aged Care Services, with a focus on frailty and a refresh of our current Ageing in Place strategy, as well as Psychogeriatric services, and rural after hours service delivery
• Ensure the development and implementation of a framework which allows medical staff district-wide to ensure accountability and delivery of safe resource allocation and decision making during budget setting and day to day resource management and quality improvement
• Ensure effective strategies are developed in collaboration with consumers and the wider clinical teams
• Ensure two-way communication within and between clinical services
• Encourage cross-functional integration, support and coordination, especially with regard to organisation-wide and Southerns goals and objectives
• Develop and implement clinical policies and standards in a cohesive manner

Mōu ake - About you

The successful applicant will be a practising clinician (ideally in Primary Care) who has experience in service innovation and a keen interest in clinical governance. It is essential that you have demonstrated experience in a relevant area and be a proven leader with extensive knowledge of clinical quality and best practice and their applications within the Health Sector. You will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster an environment where the people within our organisation work in partnership. It is important you are confident and capable in providing professional advice to team members and working with the professional leaders to ensure a skilled and credentialed workforce.

Mō mātou - About us

Te Whatu Ora - Southern has the largest geographical coverage of all the New Zealand regions, providing services to 350,000 people in diverse communities. We take pride in all the services we provide, and our aim is to improve, promote and protect the health of our region. We believe that our dedicated and passionate staff are a significant driving force behind the achievement of these standards, and we need more like-minded people to help us continue providing for our community.

Painga - Benefits:

• Supportive team

Utu whānui -Salary range

This role belongs to the ASMS Collective Agreement and falls between the Step 1 ($170,369) and Step 15 ($250,560 p.a prorata)

Rā mōnehu - Closing date: Friday, 26 August 2022.

Due to the fast-paced nature of what we do, our vacancy close dates may be subject to change. Don't delay, make sure you apply as soon as possible.

Tono ināianei - Apply now

We only accept online applications. Please apply via our website: https://careers.southernhealth.nz/

For a job description or further information, please contact, Agatha Chen, Recruitment Advisor - Senior Medical Officers with your CV. Phone: +64 3 470 9604 or email: agatha.chen@southerndhb.govt.nz

If you currently work for Te Whatu Ora- Health New Zealand - Southern, please apply for this role via our internal careers site, found here: Pulse > Applications > Corporate > SuccessFactors

Pre-employment checks

In the interests of protecting our people and our patients, all appointments will be subject to the following:

• Occupational health assessment
• Police vetting/Ministry of Justice safety checks
• Serious misconduct checks (previous Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities only)

Covid vaccination requirements

Following the update to COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021, to be employed with Southern DHB you will be required to be fully vaccinated and have received a booster vaccine against COVID-19. You will need to provide proof of this to Occupational Health staff.

To apply

We only accept online applications. Please apply via our website: https://careers.southernhealth.nz/job-invite/17971/