• Full-time, Permanent role, Monday to Friday (40 hours per week)
• Excellent working knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft and Sketch-up
• Great learning and development opportunities
• 5 Weeks Annual Leave and 3 ‘My Days’ between Christmas and New Year
• Located in Grafton with Parking on-site

Note : Please ensure you apply on line through the link provided and attach a copy of your CV and a 4-page portfolio, highlighting key projects that you have worked on; also include images demonstrating your design and technical ability, as well as, explanations of your project involvement.

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

As a Spatial Designer within Ara Manawa your primary responsibilities will be to deliver key, future focused design jobs within initiatives that deliver significant sustained benefit in organisational performance for Te Toka Tumai Auckland. The environments in which we deliver care are the first frame of reference for patient and whānau arriving at our hospitals; we are looking for someone who can champion the value of healing environments.

This role will contribute to spatial design research and innovation as well as supporting build projects within Auckland Hospital. The role will maximise the value of design skills and outputs, ensuring that experiences, spaces and systems are designed in a considered and sensitive manner, driven by patient, whānau, and staff needs. It will enable better experiences for patients, improved clinical outcomes, and better work-places for staff.

As a spatial designer, the role may also coach, mentor and train workplace project teams in how best to apply design tools and techniques in their projects across Te Toka Tumai Auckland.

For further details, please refer to the position description here.

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

The successful person will be/have: -

• Well-versed in Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a commitment to biculturalism
• Knowledgeable of the health system context and committed to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori
• Excellent spatial design skills, you are energised by a challenge and confident in user-centric design methodologies such as co-design & human centred design
• Creative and imaginative, with both an eye for detail and an ability to scale out and see the big picture
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills, confident in engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders and bringing people alongside you on the design journey
• High emotional intelligence and compassion for others
• Motivated and self-directed, as well as having excellent collaborative skills – online and in person
• Able to manage and deliver a complex workload, with detailed action plans and documentation of your process
• Excellent working knowledge and experience of Microsoft, Sketch-up and Adobe Creative Suite (Revit & ArchiCAD a bonus)
• A qualification in design (spatial, interior, architecture or human centred), or equivalent relevant tertiary qualification
• Five years’ experience working on design projects that creatively bring about improvement and change

If you would like the opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of our Auckland community and share Auckland DHB’s values of Haere Mai (welcome), Manaaki (respect), Tūhono (together) and Angamua (aim high) we would love to hear from you. 

Please email Emma Wylie at EWylie@adhb.govt.nz should you require further information about the role.

Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

We are part of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.

We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.

He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here

We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.

For more information on what we offer, please click here.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role.

To view details about our recruitment process, click here.

If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, please contact Belinda Peddie - Recruitment Consultant at bpeddie@adhb.govt.nz and quote ADHB16892 to discuss how we can best support your application.

If we receive a high number of applications for this position, we may have to close our advertising early. We recommend that you submit your application as early as possible.

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