Senior Research Advisor (Full Time), Ko Awatea Research & Evaluation Office, CM Health at Counties Manukau District Health Board (South Auckland), Auckland

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

At Counties Manukau Health, we are passionate about providing excellent care and recognise that achieving a system wide culture of innovation, improvement and learning is essential to this. By redefining our approach to large scale change and continuous improvement, we are well placed to accelerate our strategic goals of improving the health and health outcomes of our patients and communities.

Ko Awatea is our centre for health system innovation and improvement, supported by experts within the health system. We work with organisations and teams to design and deliver research projects, improvement programmes, build capability and provide knowledge, evaluation, research governance and research support to senior leaders, clinical leads, frontline teams, and colleagues locally and nationally.

We are looking to recruit a talented senior research advisor to operationalize research service related aims. The Senior Research Advisor will focus on: building internal capability (education, workshops, advice and guidance); delivery of research projects (where applicable); research governance; creating innovative approaches to providing support to researchers and communications; and ensuring that communications are understood and resources are utilised adequately and appropriately. Building relationships and working collaboratively with key internal stakeholders will be fundamental to your success in shaping and implementing our strategic direction. You are someone who can bring experience in a range of research and approaches and methodologies to the table. The Senior Research Advisor will focus equally on building internal capability, education, workshops, providing advice, and actual delivery of projects (where applicable). Additionally, the Senior Research advisor will provide leadership to less experienced staff and work closely with Locality Coordinator, Locality Administrator, Grants Coordinator and Maaori Research Advisor.

This is a full-time position working Monday to Friday. The position will take a key role in the Ko Awatea Research and Evaluation Office, based at Middlemore Hospital, assisting in delivery of the Research and Evaluation portfolio.

You will have a post-graduate qualification in health, science or other relevant field coupled with at least five (05) years applied experience in research, data analysis and/or evaluation. It is essential that you can demonstrate: experience in analysing quantitative and qualitative health data; understanding of various study designs and protocols; and familiarity with New Zealand and International Health Research guidelines. Experience in advising or similar role will be desirable but not essential.

If you have these skills and attributes, and you are looking for a great opportunity apply now!

To make an application please apply at www.countieshealthjobs.com or find out more about this great role "click here" to view the position description. For more information please contact Tangi Namulauulu in the Recruitment Centre on email tangi.namulauulu@middlemore.co.nz

Position Number: CMH20228478

Closing Date: 14th July 2022

Our highest priority is the safety and welfare of our patients and our people. We have strict Health & Safety measures to keep our people safe. All new employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 under the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021.

At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind –Manaakitanga, Together –Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.