Medical Advisor -Primary Care – Hastings, Hawke’s Bay

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi. Engari, he toa takitini.

Success is not the work of one, but the work of many.

Permanent, Part Time

64 hours per fortnight (0.8 FTE)

The importance of integration across the health sector has never been clearer than over the last few years. Hawke’s Bay District Heath Board is offering a great opportunity to join the Planning Funding and Performance team.

The role will provide an excellent opportunity for someone with general practice experience to offer a primary care perspective to support system wide integration to improve health in our communities.

This role reports to the Executive Director of Planning, Funding and Performance. You will be responsible for providing primary care expertise to support programs and projects promoting integration across the system, developing systems for receipt and triage of GP requests for acute care, identifying areas for service improvement and improving the interface across the system.

The candidate will possess strong communication skills, both written and oral, analytical and relationship management skills with a high level of drive and commitment to achieve milestones and deliver on agreed outcomes.

You will be passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of our people and reducing the health inequalities in our community.

Your strengths will include:

• Sound clinical skills and judgement
• A proven ability to contribute to effective team work
• An ability to think strategically, conscious of the ‘bigger picture’ and the long-term future and the implications of this for Hawke’s Bay.
• An ability to build relationships, networks and partnerships
• Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills, including the ability to apply these skills to support change

Eligibility:

• You will be a fellow, or working toward fellowship, of the RNZGP, with appropriate registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand. Information on the process of application for this can be found on their website at http://www.mcnz.org.nz/
• You will need to be a NZ or Australian citizen or resident, or have an appropriate visa to be eligible to live and work in NZ. The Immigration NZ website can be found at https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas

If you have any questions about this position, please contact Emma Foster by email Emma.Foster@hbdhb.govt.nz

About us

The Planning Funding & Performance Directorate within the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (DHB) enables the DHB to meet its responsibilities for planning and funding public health services to a population of 176,110 people, through a service network that covers the wider Hawke’s Bay region.

Our kaupapa is to develop and implement initiatives that enable Whānau ora, Hapori ora and we are committed to improving the health outcomes and life expectancy across Hawke’s Bay, particularly for Māori.

If this sounds like you, re and apply now!

The Hawke’s Bay DHB in general encourages a workforce that is innovative, eager to learn and enhance their skills and is passionate about caring for our community. As part of our team we will support, encourage and help you to develop your career with us.

We are committed to delivering and living our DHB values of He kauanuanu – Respect, Ākina – Improvement, Rāranga te tira– Teamwork and Tauwhiro – Care. You should be someone who has similar personal values.

We are proud of our team’s diversity. We know the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce helps us achieve the best outcomes for our patients and the communities in which we operate and serve.

As per COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Act (No 2) 2021, Hawkes Bay DHB requires ALL its employees to be both fully vaccinated against COVID-19 which now includes Boosters . For full details of eligibility please click HERE

Failure to meet these requirements will result in your application being rejected.