For a health career packed with benefits and challenges, you won’t find much better than Counties Manukau District Health Board.

When you join the team at CMDHB you will be part of nearly 5000 highly-skilled staff, with great support and career prospects. We have a dedicated workforce working in one of the most dynamic and culturally diverse regions in New Zealand. A career at CMDHB can prepare you for a career anywhere around the globe.

At CMDHB we have a commitment to training and development, commitment to our community and a commitment to excellence. We are currently working to deliver even better health career pathways to attract more people from our local community into health careers as well as retain and develop existing staff.

We aim to grow and develop a workforce that serves the health needs of our community with competence and respect and reflects the diversity of Counties Manukau.

At CMDHB staff are regularly invited to give thoughts and feedback on how to do things better and be part of continuous quality improvement and make real change to the organisation.

Counties Manukau District Health Board employs over 290 Senior Medical Officers and over 480 trainees covering most of the specialty areas working within our various sites; Middlemore Hospital, Manukau SuperClinic™ and Surgery Centre, Auckland Regional Spinal Unit and various Community sites.

We are a large teaching hospital affiliated to the University of Auckland and several senior positions in the specialty departments are joint appointments with the University.

The multi-cultural community which we serve is mirrored in our workforce as we have attracted high quality medical staff from all corners of the world.
We are an innovative organisation and lead the development of clinical IS systems which support our practice. This approach has been of particular value in integrated care but also supports effective practice in the hospital setting.
 

Employee development programmes

Orientation Programme

CMDHB is one of the largest employers Manukau City and the wider Counties Manukau region. We have 6500 staff. Finding your way around and developing networks are very important. To help new staff CMDHB has an excellent orientation programme that will introduce you to the organisation’s vision, values, policies and procedures and allow you to meet other who will help you during your career at CMDHB.

Management Programmes

CMDHB has a selection of Management training and development programmes in conjunction with the New Zealand Institute of Management. These support staff to:

1. Develop competencies, confidence and expertise
2. Increase capability and capacity
3. Provide opportunity for peer networking
4. Allow for individual flexibility, yet follow a clear development plan
5. Build on best practice.

Clinical Leadership Programme

CMDHB are seeking to create the clinical and management leaders of the future with people who are empowered and confident to lead, people who have a mindset and capacity to collaborate and innovate.

We want to build a cohort of people with the proven confidence and drive to take this organisation forward. Over the next two years, 100 people will have the opportunity to experience this challenge through the University of Auckland’s New Zealand Leadership Institute.