Mental Health & Addiction Performance Lead, Te Waipounamu

• Permanent, full-time position

• Can be based anywhere within the Te Waipounamu Region

• Help strengthen regional Mental Health & Addiction performance, programme delivery and outcomes for our communities.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders.

We provide essential hospital, specialist, and community health services across 80+ locations - from large urban centres to rural towns and remote communities.

Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders by delivering equitable, accessible and innovative care.

About the role

The Regional Mental Health & Addiction Performance Lead plays a key role in strengthening regional performance oversight, assurance, and delivery.

The purpose of the position is to ensure that performance information, narrative, analysis and follow-through are clear and consistent, and that emerging risks are identified early and managed proactively. The role provides a central point of integration for the Regional Mental Health & Addiction Work Programme, ensuring initiatives, milestones, and performance priorities are aligned across districts and clearly visible to senior leadership.

The position supports a culture of accountability, quality, anticipatory, and data-informed decision-making by ensuring that performance issues are well understood, appropriately framed, and acted on in a timely way.

About you

You bring significant experience in performance, reporting, risk, assurance or system oversight, ideally within the health or public sector. You're comfortable working with complex data and turning it into clear, meaningful insights that support decision-making and drive improvement.

You understand how strategy, performance and operational delivery connect, and have experience supporting or overseeing programmes to monitor progress, assess impact and ensure outcomes are being achieved.

You're a confident communicator with strong writing and presentation skills, and can translate complex information into clear, compelling material for senior audiences.

Building relationships with senior leaders comes naturally to you, and you're comfortable navigating complex systems, bringing people together and providing the insights and assurance needed to support effective performance and accountability.

Experience in mental health and addiction services would be highly desirable, giving you an understanding of service delivery models, clinical priorities and the needs of the populations these services support.

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 now.”  All applications must be submitted through our online careers' portal by Sunday, 8 November. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Ash Mohan at ash.mohan@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz