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Health Improvement Advisor – Kaiwhakawhanake Hauora
Toi Te Ora Public Health
Rotorua or Whakatane based
Bay of Plenty District Health Board
1.0FTE (80 hours per fortnight) – Permanent position focused on food systems change
Are you passionate about improving health and wellbeing and achieving equity through creating a sustainable healthy food system?
Toi Te Ora Public Health (Toi Te Ora) is offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated and multi-skilled public health nutritionist or dietitian to be part of our Health Improvement team.
If you have a passion and interest in food and nutrition for health and wellbeing and enjoy influencing others to make the healthy choice the easy choice and achieving equity, then this may be the role for you. You will work across different strategic areas to plan and deliver a range of health promotion approaches to improve food security, prevent childhood obesity and strengthen our food system to improve the health and wellbeing of the population living in the Bay of Plenty and Lakes districts.
The roles involves developing effective relationships and working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to support making changes where people live, learn, work and play through a settings based health promotion approach with a particular focus on achieving health equity for Māori with regards to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Your work will focus on creating change and strengthening our food system to be more sustainable, healthy, resilient and equitable. Experience in improving food security, food policy, food environment change, population based behaviour change programmes and/or group training and education would set you apart from other applicants.
To be successful in this role you will be a systems thinker and be skilled at developing effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. You will be team orientated, adaptable, and experienced in project management and have excellent communication skills. You will be knowledgeable of kaupapa Māori, aware of relevant health strategies and committed to achieving equity for Māori. A qualification in public health, nutrition or dietetics or related field and previous experience in public health nutrition is preferred.
Toi Te Ora is a leader in population health and as a Gold Accredited WorkWell organisation, we provide a supportive working environment. If you are keen to find out more about Toi Te Ora and what we do check out our website www.toiteora.govt.nz.
This is your opportunity to make a difference. Apply now, ensuring you highlight your brilliance via your CV and cover letter at www.bopdhb.govt.nz/working-here/vacancies/.
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Applications must be made online and close on the 26th October 2020[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]