Programme Manager - Mental Health and Addictions Transformation

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Programme Manager - Mental Health and Addictions Transformation Contribute to transforming the future of health

Flexible working supported to balance your work and lifestyle

Based in our Te Wai Pounamu Region

Join Te Whatu Ora at a key time, where you will meaningfully contribute to our kaupapa of creating a more equitable, accessible, cohesive and people-centred health system. This mahi will improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in Aotearoa, and we've got an opportunity for you to be part of it…

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

We are responsible for designing community-based systems of care, agreeing health and wellbeing plans, executing those plans, and monitoring outcomes which then feed into the design process. We work in partnership with our Te Whatu Ora colleagues to shape system-wide public health services across the motu.

We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi. The government is committed to improving services and outcomes for Māori and strengthening the Crown's relationships with Māori.

The Programme Manager, Mental Health & Addiction (MH&A) Transformation will lead and manage a priority programme of work, in partnership with their national and regional mentally well colleagues and maori health colleagues, to implement a MH&A transformation programme of work to radically improve Māori Health, eliminate inequities and implement the Oranga Hinengaro System and Service Framework .

This role is based in the Te Waipounamu Region made up of Nelson Marlborough, Canterbury, South Canterbury, West Coast and Southern. You will need to be based in the region. Your location can be discussed at interview stage.

Demonstrated experience in managing a range of competing programme priorities using programme management methodologies.

Knowledge of MH&A sector.

Experience in delivering on large change programmes

Experience driving & delivery of work programmes and project planning to ensure delivery of work on time, and within budget.

Experience ensuring sound governance of the programme and best practice underpinning priorities and deliverables.

Demonstrated experience at a leadership level for developing, maintaining, and influencing relationships and partnerships across sectors and organisations including with Māori and Pacific Peoples and groups.

Demonstrated ability to think conceptually and anticipate the impact of decisions on long-term outcomes and develop/recommend responses in consultation with key stakeholders.

The ability to compellingly communicate complex information and ideas in both oral and written communication to a range of audiences including senior management, Board and Ministers.

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, which will touch the lives of everyone in Aotearoa for generations.

Our name, Te Whatu Ora, means ‘the weaving of wellness'. Whatu is the combining 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 improved access, experience and outcomes for those traditionally not well served by the system - Māori, Pacific and Disabled People.

We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our lives, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter. We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply.

To view the position description and/or apply for the role, please click  "APPLY NOW." For tracking and reporting purposes, all applications must be submitted through our online career portal.

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