About our team
Bee Healthy provides oral health education and clinical services to tamariki throughout the Hutt Valley, Wellington, Porirua, and Kāpiti regions. Everything we do is aimed at providing excellent service to the whānau and tamariki in our region, to help them to improve and maintain excellent oral health.
Current Vacancies
Team Coordinator - Early Intervention
This is both a health educator and a leadership role:
As a health educator, you will arrange and facilitate visits to Kōhanga Reo, Pacific A’oga Amata, and other early childhood centres so that our clinicians can provide oral health exams for tamariki in their preschools.
You will also provide oral health education and promotion at community events, helping whānau understand how to maintain good oral health, building relationships with whānau, and building trust to encourage whānau to seek our services when their tamariki need them.
As a leader, you will lead a small team dedicated to improving oral health for Māori and Pacific tamariki, and other tamariki at risk of poorer oral health. You will be responsible for providing direction, leadership, and support to the others in the team. You will be responsible for the strategy for the Early Intervention team, and for ensuring that the oral health education and early intervention programmes are well designed and well delivered.
You will build relationships with other community healthcare providers, community groups, early childhood centres, marae, churches, and schools.
You will be based in our offices in Lower Hutt, but you will work right across our region.
About our team
Our team love working with tamariki, whānau, and communities to support and improve the health of all. We are often out of the office, working in the community, but we also spend time in the office arranging and planning our mahi, and we come together as a team to support each other on the bigger events.
We work across Porirua, Hutt Valley, Kāpiti, and Wellington to improve oral health among Māori and Pacific tamariki, and other tamariki with high oral health needs. We work with community groups, preschools, parent groups and church groups, among others, to support communities and whānau improve their oral health.
This role is for you, if you are:
An experienced health educator with a minimum of 5 years’ of experience working in health education, promotion, or a related field. You might have a qualification, or taken some courses in health education or promotion, or have equivalent experience.
Working effectively with other organisations is critical to what we do, so you will already have good connections with community organisations. You will also know how to reach out to other organisations and build relationships.
It’s a bonus if you can converse in te reo Māori, Pacific Island languages, New Zealand Sign Language, and/or a language spoken by former refugees residing in our region. It is also ideal if you have personal experience living with disability, or of supporting others who live with disability.
Additionally, we are looking for someone who:
Has some experience in leadership, preferably in a professional role, or in the community, and/or in your whānau.
Is available to work some weekends to provide health education and promotion at community events.
Loves working with tamariki of all ages, but especially pre-schoolers
Has a drivers’ licence - this is essential.
Service: Bee Healthy Regional Dental Service
Location: Lower Hutt office based with work required across the Wellington Region
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Salary: $108,000 per annum
Applications closes: 7 April 2024
To view the job listing and to apply, click here. For further information on this role please email recruitment@ccdhb.org.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number (SS064-24) in the subject line.
