Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer Southern District Health Board
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CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK CHIEF ALLIED HEALTH, SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL OFFICER SOUTHERN DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 3 Southern District Health Board 4 Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer 9 Employment Terms & Conditions 14 Living in Southern Districts New Zealand 15 How to Apply 17 HardyGroup | IN CONFIDENCE 2 CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Pivotal leadership role reporting to the CEO • Based ideally in Dunedin, or for the right candidate Invercargill, New Zealand • Drive significant transformation across the region The Southern District Health Board (DHB) has the largest regional coverage of all the New Zealand health boards, providing services to over 315,000 people in diverse communities. Southern DHB takes great pride in the services provided and aim is to improve, promote and protect the health of our population. Southern DHB’s customers, patients, staff and communities are at the heart of everything they do. Southern DHB is undergoing significant transformation, and with a focus on clinical and quality excellence, and on further enhancing organisational culture, the aim to make Southern DHB an employer of choice. In order to achieve this, Southern DHB are committed to putting the right people, with the right skills, into the right roles. Southern District Health Board are now seeking a Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer you will have professional leadership responsibility for all our allied health, scientific and technical staff. Working in partnership with the other Executive Directors to ensure both operational and professional direction of the Southern DHB are aligned. You will have exemplary relationship management skills and a high level of professional credibility. This is a very broad role where you will represent 24% of our workforce that includes more than 30 discrete professions each having their own professional identity, codes of ethics, practice competencies, workforce training and development needs. These workforces cover a range of health professions including regulated, self-regulated and unregulated staff committed to providing best in class patient care. This is a challenging but extremely rewarding leadership role where your passion for your area and people in it spans a broad multidisciplinary remit. We are seeking applications from senior leaders with appropriate experience, qualifications and the personal qualities, who are looking to further their career with an invigorated organisation that is totally committed to making positive change. The Southern districts of New Zealand offer the benefits of excellent amenities, first class primary through to tertiary education, affordable housing and outstanding recreational opportunities. HardyGroup | IN CONFIDENCE 3 CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer SOUTHERN DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD VISION Better Health, Better Lives, Whanau Ora VALUES MISSION We work in partnership with people and communities to achieve their optimum health and wellbeing. We seek excellence through a culture of learning, inquiry, service and caring. PURPOSE • To improve, promote and protect the health of our population • Promote the integration of health services across primary and secondary care services • Seek the optimum arrangement for the most effective and efficient delivery of health services • Promote effective care or support for those in need of personal health or disability support services • Promote the inclusion and participation in society and the independence of people with disabilities • Reduce health disparities by improving health outcomes for Māori and other population group • Foster community participation in health improvement and in planning for the provision of and changes to the provision of services • Uphold the ethical and quality standards expected of use and to exhibit a sense of social and environmental responsibility HardyGroup | IN CONFIDENCE 4 CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer Southern District Health Board is responsible for planning, funding and providing all publicly funded health care services for the Southern district of New Zealand. Southern District Health Board (Southern DHB) exists to support everyone across our district to live well, and access the right care when they need it, by delivering high quality, patient-centred and equitable health services to our diverse communities. Southern DHB are responsible for planning, funding and providing health and disability services to a population of over 315,000 located South of the Waitaki River. Our catchment area encompasses Invercargill City, Queenstown - Lakes District, Gore, rural Southland, Clutha, Central Otago, Maniototo, Waitaki District and Dunedin City. This means Southern DHB serves the largest geographic region of all New Zealand's health boards. There are hospitals in Dunedin central, Wakari (Dunedin), Invercargill and Queenstown. We also provide health services delivered from rural hospitals, our primary health organisation, pharmacies, aged residential care facilities and much more. Southern DHB is currently governed by a Commissioner Team appointed by the Minister of Health. Its operations are led by an Executive Leadership Team and it is advised by a Clinical Council, as well as the other advisory bodies of the Southern Health system. As of October 2019, this will revert to an elected board and Crown Monitor. HardyGroup | IN CONFIDENCE 5 CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer The Southern district is a vast and demanding landscape where, over generations, numerous health care structures have been established to enable us to take care of one another. These are wide and varied, from GP and nurse-led practices, to rural hospitals, iwi providers, NGOs, as well as the secondary and tertiary hospitals in Invercargill and Dunedin. The challenge we share is to ensure that all of these efforts combine in the best possible way to provide the care our communities need, in the right place, at the right time. (Ref: Southern District Health Board Annual Plan 2018/19) SOUTHERN DISTRICT HOSPITALS Dunedin Hospital Dunedin Hospital is a 388-bed tertiary facility employing over 3,000 staff and servicing an Otago catchment of 181,500. Located in the heart of the city centre, Dunedin Hospital is the tertiary hospital for the lower part of the South Island (inclusive of Southland - providing tertiary services for a combined catchment of 289,000) and is home to all specialties plus a broad array of subspecialties. The hospital includes Intensive Care, Neo-Natal Intensive Care and Coronary Care Units, eight main operating and two-day surgery theatres. Dunedin Hospital also operates a regional helicopter retrieval service. Dunedin Hospital has modern radiology services, including MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine and interventional radiology. Dunedin Hospital is a University teaching hospital with very strong links to the University of Otago and the Otago Polytechnic Schools of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Sciences. Each year, Dunedin Hospital sees 36,000 emergency department presentations, performs approximately 10,200 theatre operations, 1800 births, and 23,000 discharges. Website Links: Dunedin Hospital Video Clip :Dunedin Hospital staff member emigrated from the UK Wakari Hospital Specialised psychiatric hospital services and services for people with intellectual or physical disabilities are provided from Wakari Hospital (150 beds) and is located about 3km from Dunedin Hospital (a 10-minute drive up the hill). HardyGroup | IN CONFIDENCE 6 CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK Chief Allied Health, Scientific & Technical Officer Southland Hospital Built in late 2004, is a 157+ bed, secondary level 4 base facility situated in Invercargill City which employs 1,500 staff. As a secondary level base hospital, our staff enjoy a broad range of cases which provide good opportunities for those starting off in their careers to gain a wide experience and exposure to clinical cases, whilst also ensuring generalists and experienced staff enjoy a varied and interesting workload. Southland Hospital services a 108,000-population base providing acute medical and surgical, outpatient clinics, day procedures, 24-hour emergency department, comprehensive ancillary facilities including laboratory, medical imaging, medical diagnostics, specialist paediatric, maternity, rehabilitation and therapy services. On average per year at Southland Hospital there are 30,000 Emergency Department attendances, 5,000 theatre operations 1100 births and 17,000 discharges. Southland Hospital is well equipped for its size and features digital radiology technology with MRI and CT capability as well as electronic patient management system. The hospital is a teaching facility, affiliated to the University of Otago and its Dunedin School of Medicine. There are also close ties with the School of Nursing at Invercargill's Southern Institute of Technology (which has a zero-fees programme), and with other tertiary educators including Otago Polytechnic. Website Links: Southland Hospital Other smaller regional hospitals include: • Dunstan Hospital: In Clyde, Central Otago; Dunstan Hospital was rebuilt and opened in 2005 and is a busy, 32 bed acute inpatient care facility. • Lakes