Research Assistant

Waikato Hospital, Hamilton; Full time working 40 hours per week, fixed-term for 12 months
Join new ways of working to address inequities in the health system
Make a positive difference for Māori whānau and improving health outcomes
Gain experience working within a successful research and operational teams

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

We are seeking an experienced Research Assistant to join our Māori Health research team here at Māori Health Services at Waikato Hospital.

Whiri was designed to improve Māori health outcomes by explicitly addressing the established drivers of health inequity, eliminating racism, deconstructing barriers to integrated care, whakamana hāpori and supporting long-term and sustainable Māori workforce development. Whiri aligns with the highly successful Whānau Ora approach, focussing on the needs and goals of the whānau, centred on improving equity for Māori and other priority populations whilst being grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The current Health Research Council funded project `Cancer Whiri I II: Extending the pathway aims to extend the Cancer Whiri I model from referral for suspicion of cancer through to completion of cancer treatment, and to develop an implementation kete to enable successful localisation and implementation of the model; which will then be piloted in two sites.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in supporting new ways of working in the health system, to address inequities using the Whiri model of care for whānau in the Cancer Whiri II study. This programme of work will embrace Mātauranga Māori and Te Ao Māori in order to be effective for our Māori communities and fulfil our Te Tiriti obligations.