Quality, Safety & Audit Coordinator Thames

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waikato; Waikato; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 85,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the Waikato region is seeking a Quality, Safety & Audit Coordinator for Thames Hospital. This permanent part-time role involves supporting clinical staff, leading quality and safety activities, and maintaining audit actions across services. Ideal candidates should have 5-7 years of experience in similar roles, alongside strong communication and interpersonal skills necessary for effective teamwork and conflict resolution. Applications close on 21 January 2026.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in audit, quality, and patient safety activities.
• Proven background in clinical patient care.
• Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support clinical staff in quality, patient safety, and audits.
• Manage health and safety meetings and activities.
• Build and maintain audit tools and schedules.
• Develop action plans with clinical leadership for audit deficits.

Skills

Clinical patient care

Audit and quality activities

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Quality, Safety & Audit Coordinator Thames

• Thames Hospital
• Permanent Part-time

This is an exciting time for you to join our Thames Hospital and Community team leading the Quality, Safety and Audit activity. This is a new role for Thames Hospital and is an opportunity to develop and implement quality and safety activities as well as leading audits across the services.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

About the Role

The primary purpose of the role is to:

• Support Thames Hospital and Community clinical staff in all aspects of quality, patient safety and audits to ensure quality and safety activities, audit actions and compliance are maintained across all Thames services.
• Responsible for health and safety meetings and associated activities including supporting the health and safety representatives.
• Build audit tools and registers and maintain a schedule of regular and mandatory audits.
• Develop action plans in conjunction with clinical leadership to address identified audit deficits

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About the Team/Service

The rural hospital and community services team includes Thames Hospital and Community, Tokoroa Hospital, Te Kuiti Hospital, Taumaranui Hospital and Community service staff in Hamilton. The Quality, Safety and Audit coordinator will work collaboratively with the other Quality, Safety and Audit co‑ordinators in the Southern Rural hospitals to ensure continuous quality improvement. This role reports to the Operations Manager - Thames Hospital and Community and is part of the wider non‑clinical team.

The Rural and Community Directorate understands that communities have their own solutions and unique requirements to meet their health needs. We understand the complexities of rural disparities and geographic challenges and the impact of this on health access.

We have a committed and talented workforce who are connected in their purpose of improving the health outcomes of our communities, working in partnership and building relationships with other health services and providers including mana whenua, iwi and local Māori ropu to ensure closer to home care whenever possible.

About you

To be successful in this role it is essential that you can demonstrate the following:

• A relevant background in clinical patient care.
• 5‑7 years experience in audit, quality and patient safety activities in a complex health related environment.
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills including the capacity to negotiate, resolve conflict and positively influence others.

Working for 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.

How to Apply

To apply please click Apply online or apply via our Waikato Careers website by clicking here .

All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59 pm on 21 January 2026. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Kaitlin Basson at [e-mail]

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

Job details

Job Reference:

Job Reference: THA00947

Location:

North Island - Waikato - Thames & Coromandel

Job type:

Expertise:

Non‑clinical - Administration - Administration