Change Lead

Change Lead – Northern Region

Full-Time Fixed Term – 1 Year

Supportive and positive team culture

Flexible working environment

Commitment to personal development and mentoring

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

As a Change Lead, you will play a critical role in delivering healthcare infrastructure projects, ensuring clinical services are effectively transitioned into new and redeveloped facilities across the Northern region.

This is a unique opportunity to join a professional and dynamic team committed to supporting clinical services throughout the facility development project management lifecycle. Health NZ’s Northern region has a commitment to significant capital investment projects over the next two years. The Change Lead role is integral to our focus on enabling the delivery of excellent clinical facilities that enhance the experience of patients and service providers.

Your extensive knowledge of health services will help establish successful relationships with relevant project managers, end-users and stakeholders to deliver on required outcomes.

The Change Lead is responsible for leading service-level change and transition planning to ensure clinical services are successfully implemented within new or redeveloped facilities, minimising disruption and maximising operational readiness.

Key responsibilities will include:

Acting as a primary lead for the service in all matters pertaining to development or refurbishment of a clinical facility

Partnering with project managers within the Infrastructure team

Developing documentation including business cases, service briefs, models of care and schedules of accommodation

Establishing and managing project work streams required to support service delivery

Apply change management tools and project management activities to facilitate build projects

Provide input and oversight of the disruption notice process and support colleagues to undertake operational planning as required to mitigate potential organisational risks

Committed to excellence, we will support your on-going personal development and provide mentoring to assist you to transition into the role. If you are a registered healthcare professional, we are also keen to support opportunities which allow you to maintain your annual practicing certification.

If you are passionate about improving healthcare environments and leading meaningful change at scale, we encourage you to apply and be part of a programme delivering lasting impact for our communities.

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About Us

Health New Zealand Waitematā provides health services to approximately 650,000 residents of the North Shore, Waitakere, and Rodney areas. It has the largest population of any district health area.

For more information on living and working in Waitematā District, click here.

About You

As a Change Lead, you will bring:

Extensive knowledge of health services

Experience establishing successful relationships with project managers, end-users and stakeholders

Experience developing business cases, service briefs, models of care and schedules of accommodation

Strong change management and project management skills

Ability to lead service-level change and transition planning within healthcare environments

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.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit your application through our online careers’ portal at (enter reference number WDHB22163). If you have any questions about the role, please contact Sarah Kneller – Recruitment Consultant via .

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process before the closing date of this advert.

Job Reference: WDHB22163

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Monday - Friday