2024 Institute for Innovation and Improvement Registrar

Public Health Registrar placement available – Institute for Innovation and Improvement Registrar

The Institute for Innovation and Improvement Team is offering an advanced training public health registrar placement, based in Auckland, for a registrar who is currently on an Advanced Training Programme with either the NZ College of Public Health Medicine or the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (RACP). Placements are 1.0FTE from September 2024 and for 12 months’ duration. Part-time and shorter duration placement will be considered.

Institute for Innovation and Improvement Team is a national function within Te Whatu Ora’s Service Improvement and Innovation Directorate. The registrar roles will be within the Clinical Team, predominantly comprised of Public Health Physicians. The Population Health Gain function provides trusted pragmatic advice to health system decision makers with an evidence-based, intelligence-driven and whole of system approach to improve population level outcomes. It has strong links across other Service Improvement and Innovation functions.

The purpose of the Public Health Medicine Registrar role is to provide public and population health advice and expertise in key projects and programmes within the Institute for Innovation and Improvement Team. In this placement registrars will be able to develop health system and service development competencies along with a range of other core public health medicine competencies.

The registrars will report to the Clinical Team Lead via the Workplace Supervisor and work collaboratively with other public health physicians and analysts in a supportive, collegial environment. The position offers the opportunity to work with a large team of public health physicians, who work across a diverse of portfolio areas and hold extensive subject matter and technical expertise. The team has a long history of training and supporting registrars. A position profile can be found here.

While it is expected that there will be opportunities for placements across the motu as the team grows, the currently advertised Public Health Registrar placements are based at – Waitematā (Shea Terrace, Takapuna).

Applications from registrars available to work part-time or full-time are welcomed, with preference given to those who have already completed a Public Health Unit attachment. If you would like to ask any questions and/or talk about the roles before applying, please contact Tracey Murphy Tracy.Murphy@waitematadhb.govt.nz

Closing Date: 1st September 2024