Shape the future of urgent care in Hawke’s Bay.
Napier Urgent Care (formerly City Medical), a trusted provider of urgent and after-hours care for over 25 years, is seeking a Medical Director to join our team.
Our mission is to provide accessible, quality urgent and after-hours health care to our community. We’re looking for a passionate leader to guide clinical excellence, support our highly skilled team, and strengthen our commitment to evidence-based, patient-centered care. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of our community. Each year, we deliver urgent and after-hours care to more than 36,000 patients, spanning a broad range of clinical complexity and acuity.
This role is a key part of our Senior Management team, with support from our Clinical Governance Committee.
The Opportunity
As Medical Director, you will:
- Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team.
- Drive clinical excellence and innovation.
- Partner with the Board, GM, and Senior Management to deliver strategic goals.
- Provide hands-on clinical leadership in a busy urgent care center.
- Champion high-quality, patient-centered, innovative, and culturally responsive models of care.
This is a full-time role (1 FTE), based in Napier, with some after-hours requirements.
About You
You’ll bring clinical credibility, proven leadership, and a commitment to advancing urgent care. Specifically, you will be:
- An experienced and respected clinician with strong leadership capabilities.
- A holder of a current MCNZ Practising Certificate, legally able to practice in NZ.
- Committed to high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care.
- Experienced in management and clinical governance.
- Ideally a current or pending Fellow of the RNZCUC (preferred but not essential).
Why join us?
- Clinical Leadership: Apply your expertise on the floor while mentoring and supporting our team.
- Impact: Play a key role in shaping urgent and after-hours care for the Hawke’s Bay community.
- Growth: Lead with autonomy while being supported by a senior management team.
- Lifestyle: Napier offers an enviable lifestyle with sunshine, beaches, vineyards, and a thriving arts scene on your doorstep – a place where work-life balance is genuinely achievable. .
For more information, to request a position description, or a confidential discussion, please contact:
Sue Taaffe, General Manager Email: sue@napierurgentcare.co.nz Phone: 06 835 4999