Prevocational Educational Supervisor - part-time - fixed term

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 looking to appoint a Prevocational Educational Supervisor (PES) at Waitematā. This is a Medical Council NZ required role, based at Te Whatu Ora Waitemata, supporting doctors through PGY1 and PGY2 (including NZ graduates, NZREX pathway candidates and new to region PGY1+2 doctors) years. You will supervise up to 10 junior doctors during their prevocational training (usually over 2 years) by meeting with them as required and minimum each quarter. You will offer training oversight and input, pastoral care, career advice and assist your junior doctors to navigate wider professional challenges. PES’s liaise with Clinical Services and Supervisors as necessary, and have support of a wider PES and DCT team from different clinical backgrounds.

As a PES, expectations include contributions to the junior doctors teaching programme, attendance at 6 weekly local meetings and an annual MCNZ meeting, and working within Waitemata to achieve MCNZ accreditation standards.

Key to the role is liaison with the Director of Clinical Training, the Medical Education and Training Unit and service-based Clinical Supervisors, to ensure the best possible learning opportunities and training for prevocational doctors.

This is an important and rewarding role which can be done alongside your clinical work, with variable weekly time commitment required depending on trainees and MCNZ.

Prevocational Educational Supervisors must:

• Be in good standing with the Medical Council of New Zealand
• Hold a vocational scope of practice
• Have sound clinical medicine, management and interpersonal skills
• Be a professional role model for prevocational doctors
• Be approachable and easily accessible to prevocational doctors
• Able to offer pastoral care and take an active interest in ensuring health and wellbeing
• Confident to support struggling trainees
• Be an able advocate and mentor
• Be supportive and knowledgeable about prevocational education, the New Zealand health system and career pathways and opportunities for doctors
• Attend PES and MCNZ meetings regularly
• Complete training as required including annual MCNZ training

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

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If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Rebecca Somerville, Associate Director of Clinical Training at Rebecca.Somerville@waitematadhb.govt.nz or Laura Chapman, CMO - laura.chapman@waitematadhb.govt.nz

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

Job code: WDHB20190

Closing date: Fri 10th Oct 2025