Expressions of Interest Clinical Champion, Primary Care - System Improvement - Long Term Conditions We are looking for an experienced primary care clinician, with a passion for data, measurement, and how this will impact system improvement. Are you interested in using your professional expertise, relationships across primary care, and your leadership skills to influence policy direction and improvement initiatives to achieve equitable health outcomes?
About the role We seek to appoint a Clinical Champion, Long Term Conditions (LTC) to provide system improvement leadership for the LTC team’s integrated programme of work. This will have a strong alignment with how we respond to the recently announced Health System Indicators, which provide a key platform on which to build. This will include developing an intervention logic for improving long-term conditions management, supported by quality improvement activity and quality measures developed in partnership with the sector, to demonstrate improvements in both services and outcomes. Your knowledge of the sector (including what is working well and where the challenges are) will be pivotal to our work to achieve system improvement. The LTC team is looking to strengthen relationships with primary care leaders, its community partnerships and prevention approaches, and prioritise equity-driven, data-informed initiatives. We are looking for strong primary care leadership to address how services can best meet the needs of those with, or at risk of developing, long-term conditions. We want to ensure appropriate services and care planning supports are in place to address their needs to reduce the demand on acute services and delay or avoid condition-related complications. This appointee will work across the current LTC team priority workstreams, including diabetes (and associated chronic kidney disease), cardiovascular disease (including stroke) and gout. The appointee will work alongside key stakeholders, including: • various primary care networks (including the primary care leaders group) • the LTC team • other Ministry of Health teams • clinical leaders • The LTC team’s clinical leads. Our work needs to be grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles, and reflect the priorities identified in both the Whakamaua Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2025 and the Ola Manuia: The Pacific Health and Wellbeing Action Plan 2020-2025. This will inform how we address the unequal burden of long-term conditions in the New Zealand population.
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