Are you considering a career in public health? Toi Te Ora Public Health could be just the organisation you’re looking for…
What do we do?
Public health is about action that protects our environments, prevents illness and injury and promotes health and wellbeing of communities.
Toi Te Ora Public Health is contracted by the Ministry of Health to provide public health services for the Bay of Plenty and Lakes Districts.
Our vision is lifelong health and wellbeing for all.
Our key role is to plan and deliver services that promote, protect and improve population health, prevent ill health and minimise the risk of disease and injury through population based interventions. The service places an emphasis in its work on improving the health of Māori, children (including maternal health), and young people.
Our staff work across the region in this beautiful part of New Zealand and can be based in any of our four offices in Tauranga, Rotorua, Taupō and Whakatāne.
Check out the video below which provides a glimpse of what public health is and what public health does.
Working for us – so many opportunities
There are opportunities galore in the health sector and Toi Te Ora needs a wide cross section of skilled and passionate people to assist us in delivering comprehensive public health programmes.
Toi Te Ora has more than 50 staff work in a wide range of exciting public health roles including health promotion, health protection, research and evaluation, policy and strategy development, communications, managers and public health physicians.
A career with Toi Te Ora will see you working for an organisation committed to providing the best public health services possible. Opportunities exist for ongoing professional development with the chance to gain extensive and varied experience in a public health related setting.
You will have the opportunity to work in an interesting and stimulating sector, with a range of communities and settings and gain valuable transferable skills.
You could be an essential part of a system that supports the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and their communities.
Think you belong here?
- Search our current vacancies in the Bay of Plenty
- Search current vacancies in the Lakes district
- Find out more with the Public Health Careers booklet
- Find out more about working in health
- More jobs in health
Check out the video below and discover how, through a career in public health, you can make a real difference and a valuable contribution to the health and wellness of your friend’s, whānau and people.
This video is a joint venture between Kia Ora Hauora Midland and Toi Te Ora Public Health with support from Hawkes Bay Population Health to support Māori into a career in public health. For more information on a career in public health see Kia Ora Hauora Midland.
Roles in public health
Watch our Medical Officer of Health, Dr Neil de Wet talk about his role as a public health doctor.
Watch Trieste Ngawhika, Health Protection Officer talk about about her role in public health.
Updated 15 Nov, 2022