General Manager - Women's Health

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland; Auckland; On-site; NZD 260,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora invites expressions of interest for the General Manager, Womens Health, based at Te Toka Tumai Auckland. You will lead a large, complex portfolio, shape strategy, and drive safety, quality and cost improvement programmes while stewarding a substantial operational budget.

This senior role requires proven healthcare leadership, financial acumen, and commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and equity for Māori and Pacific communities.

Job description

About the Role

In partnership with clinical, allied health, human resource and financial leaders in Auckland DHBs senior leadership teams, the General Manager for Womens Health nurtures and develops the operational and administrative teams, contributes to the achievement of strategic goals, and supports the Departments safety, quality and cost improvement programmes. The General Manager will lead planning for sustainable service delivery, identify opportunities for growth and lead project management and organisational change initiatives.

Other duties will include:

• Support high quality, patient centred, responsive and cost-effective services.
• Deliver Auckland DHBs legal obligations with respect to the Treaty of Waitangi and addressing health inequalities.
• Positively influence the culture of the directorate and ensure that Auckland DHB delivers care in a manner consistent with the vision and values of the organisation.
• Engage with clinicians and wider support teams, key stakeholders and build on the momentum of change.
• Work strategically and add value to the Directorate and wider organisation by sharing your knowledge and past experience.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will need to have: An experienced, strategic and resilient leader to join Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora as General Manager, Womens Health, based at Te Toka Tumai. In this pivotal role, you will lead a large and complex portfolio and a significant operational budget, while driving excellence in patient safety, quality care, workforce engagement, service sustainability and equitable health outcomes. You will bring proven senior leadership experience in a complex healthcare environment, strong financial and operational management capability, and a commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and achieving equity for Māori and Pacific communities. This is an outstanding opportunity to influence the future of womens health services, lead transformational change, build high-performing teams, and make a lasting difference for patients, whānau and communities across Auckland.

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.