Medical Services - Team Leader

Medical Services - Team Leader

This is a full time, secondment opportunity, based in Tauranga with travel to Whakatāne as required. An opportunity exists to join the Planned Care Services team at Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand Hauora a Toi Bay of Plenty as the Medical Services - Team Leader.

This leadership position reports to and provides support to the Planned Care Services Manager to ensure optimisation of outpatient and inpatient resources through the medical scheduling team. To support and facilitate communications and coordination between inpatient and outpatients and the planned care services team.

This is a full and varied role, and you will require excellent communication and coordination skills as well as a commitment to professional excellence.

This position is open to Health NZ current employees.

Planned Care Services plays an important role in coordinating and delivering planned surgical care across Tauranga and Whakatāne Hospitals. Working closely with clinical teams, administration staff and external stakeholders, the service focuses on effective planning, coordination and the efficient use of resources to support high quality patient care.

To be suitable for this role it is important you have the following skills and attributes:

• Demonstrated leadership qualities, including well developed interpersonal skills
• Proficient with patient management software, spreadsheets and databases
• Organised, high quality outputs and strong attention to detail
• Motivated, self-driven and solutions focused attitude
• Strong focus on outstanding customer service

Proven experience as a people leader in a large complex organisation is required, experience in a health setting is desirable.

Alongside having the opportunity to contribute positively to the provision of planned care services for the growing Bay of Plenty population (260,000), you will be committed to a whole of system approach and be supportive of our people and their whānau. A key focus of this role will be to ensure a culture of Manaakitanga, and a pro-equity approach is at the forefront when engaging with our people.

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.

To apply please click apply now. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by 5th November 2026. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Careers, BP-Careers@tewhatuora.govt.nz.

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

Job Details

Job Reference: TAU03185

Location: North Island - Bay of Plenty - Tauranga

Job Type: Contract/Temp Full time

Expertise: Non-clinical - Management

Closes: 05-Nov-2026