Part-Time Clinical Lead: Primary Care Transformation

Madison Recruitment; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

National impact

Collaborative team

Leadership role

Job summary

Madison Recruitment is seeking a Clinical Lead for the Primary Care Programme in New Zealand. This fixed-term role offers 8-16 hours per week in a hybrid arrangement, guiding the delivery of a national primary care initiative while maintaining your clinical practice.

You will provide clinical leadership, strategic advice, and help shape priorities, partnerships, and evidence-based improvement across the health sector, focusing on equity and quality in communities you serve.

Qualifications

• Current registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand and an Annual Practising Certificate.
• Significant clinical credibility and experience in the NZ primary care sector.
• Experience leading quality improvement, service improvement, or health system transformation initiatives.
• Strong governance understanding and knowledge of quality and safety in health care.
• Ability to use data and clinical insight to support improvements.
• Experience collaborating with Māori providers, clinicians, whānau, iwi and communities.
• Understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori health models.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and influence change in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and strategic guidance to inform programme priorities and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support the design and implementation of projects that enhance quality and safety within primary care.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the primary care sector, wider health system, and key stakeholder groups.
• Partner with Māori health providers, iwi, hapū, clinicians, and communities to support equitable health outcomes.
• Promote evidence-based practice and quality improvement approaches.
• Ensure consumer, patient, and whānau perspectives are considered in programme development and delivery.
• Represent the organisation at sector forums, conferences, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Act as a trusted clinical voice on emerging issues and opportunities within primary care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Medical governance

Stakeholder engagement

Data-driven improvement

Māori health knowledge

Te Tiriti understanding

Prioritisation & change

NZ health system knowledge

Job description

Madison Recruitment is seeking a Clinical Lead for the Primary Care Programme in New Zealand. This fixed-term role offers 8-16 hours per week in a hybrid arrangement, guiding the delivery of a national primary care initiative while maintaining your clinical practice.

You will provide clinical leadership, strategic advice, and help shape priorities, partnerships, and evidence-based improvement across the health sector, focusing on equity and quality in communities you serve.