Director Student Counselling & Health (AUT Employees Only)

• Utilise your clinical expertise and passion for innovation
• Shape NZ's future within our student community
• Permanent, full-time role based in Auckland's CBD

With AUT's proactive approach to helping students, they are better equipped to cope with the demands of higher education.  We have Student Medical Centres and Counselling Services located across our City, North and South campuses offering a wide range of general practice services and free, confidential counselling and mental health support to our students.

This role provides high-level planning and overarching management in the ongoing development and delivery of our medical and counselling/mental health support. It also focuses on how we can improve our holistic responses to student well-being with peer-based programmes and proactivity in the space of resilience, mindfulness, and conversation. You will love rolling up your sleeves as you drive these projects and see them through to implementation and completion, whilst achieving a working balance between quality student-centric services and legislative compliance.

You will have a passion and skill for the exploration, examination and assessment of future innovations and opportunities. Working with initiative and an inquisitive appetite for exploring external factors affecting student health services such as current markets, new technologies and societal/demographic trends will be important as you seek to optimise new opportunities for AUT. You may have already been making these kinds of proposals in your current role - or alternatively could have been part of a technology upgrade or deployment from a manual process to online. Key systems our role works with include MedTech, Dynamics CRM and our in-house student management system.

To ensure success in this role you will have;

• A tertiary qualification in a health-related discipline and/or significant general or operational management experience in the health sector. A postgraduate qualification in psychology/ mental health is desirable.
• A minimum of seven years' experience in a relevant senior management role and previous clinical expertise is required.
• Experience with management of multi-discipline teams in a community health context
• Experience collaborating with diverse and senior staff to drive change and business improvement
• Experience with the development and implementation of technology solutions
• Demonstrable experience implementing successful change management initiatives
• Applicants are welcome to add further comments of their own, that they feel of relevance to the role and its requirements.

This is an opportunity to lead in your field in an educational environment and directly contribute to the success of New Zealand's future citizens. You'll have the chance to maximise positive outcomes for our student's overall success - whilst facilitating AUT's reputation as a sector leader in the provision of student health initiatives.

AUT is a fantastic place to work and has excellent staff benefits including free study, a personal fund for your continued professional development, free membership to AUT gyms and generous leave allowances.

Ref: 88885

Closing Date: 21st May 2024, at 11:55 pm. 

*Full-time denotes 37.5 hours per week

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