Professional Leader Occupational Therapy

Dunedin - New Zealand

Yearly Salary: $ 117420 - 122570

Posted on: 25 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Professional Leader Occupational Therapy

District wide- Invercargill or Dunedin
0.8 FTE (32hrs per week) permanent opportunity
Salary $117420 - $122570 per annum pro-rata Kiwisaver

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

In this role you will be accountable for district-wide professional leadership of the occupational therapy workforce. You will lead excellence in professional governance quality practice and professional conduct contributing to new models of care & workforce planning/development for occupational therapy.

Professional Leaders provide the following for their relevant discipline:

Strategic thinking to enable innovation and creativity in your profession

Credentialling of your specific workforce

Enable intersectoral collaboration and/or clinical partnerships

Our preference is for all professional leads to concurrently hold a clinical role.

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About you.

You will have:

Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to network develop key relationships and partnership
Innovative proactive enthusiastic and flexible
Ability to problem solve
Demonstrable peer credibility and respect
Broad understanding of profession specific practice areas
Drive for results

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.

Salary range

This role belongs to the PSA/DHBs Allied Public Health and Technical Multi-Employer Collective Agreement and falls between designated B step 1 (117420 p.a) and Step 3 ($122570 p.a pro rata) of Technical Designated Allied Public Health and Technical scale.

How to Apply

To apply please click apply now. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by Sunday 9 November 2025. If you have any questions about the role please contact James via:

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

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority

Professional Leader Occupational Therapy District wide- Invercargill or Dunedin0.8 FTE (32hrs per week) permanent opportunitySalary $117420 - $122570 per annum pro-rata KiwisaverHealth New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to buildi...