Ngāti Whātua

Project Manager, He Kamaka Waiora

Full time from 4 May 2021

Working on several projects in the provider arm, including:

• Equity (addressing Maori inequitable results in Health)
• Maori workforce development
• Learning and Development 
• Facility Development projects
• Quality

• Birkenhead and Albany COVID Vaccination centres as manawhenua co-lead
• Waitemata DHB COVID Incident Management Team as Māori Response Lead

Amo Taurima

Part time marae-based work

Sept 2019 - April 2021

I needed to take a professional break from teaching, for family reasons, so I began part-time with Te Puna Wananga. I manaaki the manuhiri on our marae, support all activities for Maori education and participate in other teaching-related activities. In mid-2020 I re-commenced study, on-campus at the university's Epsom campus.

Job Find Assistance Consultant , Maori and Pasifika

Part time contract work

March 2019 - Dec 2020

Signed up as a relief teacher and taught at Te Kura Maori o Nga Tapuwae School in Mangere during Terms 1-3, 2019. Also worked for EPs Job Find Assistance programme as a consultant to recruit Maori and Pasifika teachers into Maori-medium schools, and Pasifika classrooms. I co-constructed teaching CVs with newly graduated and returning teachers, prepared them for interviews and taught PD seminars on (1) how to implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi in classrooms (2) Working with Maori and Pasifika students in your classroom and (3) Navigating the NZ Curriculum.

Tutor, L3, Te Pokaitahi Reo (Reo Maori)

June 2019 - December 2020

Fulltime teaching role with NorthTec, and the Auckland-based L3 Te Reo Maori course for Ngapuhi Wananga, teaching alongside Pierre Lyndon. Students were all of Ngapuhi descent, based in Auckland. The course consisted of 8 papers per annum, covering 4 topics: Mana Tangata, Mana Reo, Mana Atua and Mana Ao Turoa. Class sizes were usually between 15-20 adults. In my last course, 85% of students gained Achieved, Merit or Excellence grades, the other 15% had withdrawn for family and work reasons.

Health and Social Studies Teacher 2013-2015

Health and Religious Ed Teacher 2016-2017

Umanga Kaiarataki - Te Umanga Oranga

Leader - Health Science Academy

Year 11 Dean

Staff Rep on school Board of Trustees

Jan 2013 – Dec 2017

Full time teaching role. Inspiring young people to develop strong moral values, make good decisions and to inspire them to work in health is extremely rewarding. I love the challenges, the diversity of things that need to be achieved, and the close relationships you have with your "customers" i.e. the learners. In health, one sees patients/clients just occasionally but in education, you become a daily part of their lives, for years on end. I'm a practical hands-on person and this pic shows well-worn textbooks in my classroom!

General Manager, Māori Health 

Nov 1999 – Nov 2010

Māori health services within the provider arm, and input into Planning and Funding functions at Waitematā DHB. Treaty of Waitangi trainer "How to Practically Implement the Treaty of Waitangi into your clinical workplace". Developed Māori Research Review Committee process. Author of Te Pū O Te Wai Āwhina and Taki Mauri strategies. Overview of Mõ Wai Te Ora, patient services and supports and other Māori health activities within Waitematā DHB until 2010 (Māori services now amalgamated with ADHB). This pic is taken Feb 2010, of our kaumātua group, just before another restructure. From L to R: Pita Pangari, Frank Taipari, ahau, Tanekaha Rosieur and Anaru Wharetohunga-Peita, with Lake Pūpuke in the background.

Māori Mental Health and ResRehab Portfolio Manager 

1995 – May 1999

Purchasing new Māori mental health services with the then-new "Mason money" and also oversaw the re-development of the residential rehabilitation pricing models in Auckland Northland in 1996/8. This picture has nothing to do with this role, but it's a favourite of my sons Joshua and Nathan, taken at the top of Whangarei Falls

Acute Mental Health Services Manager (West) 

Nov 1988 – 1995

Managed Henderson House CMHC, Extended Hours/CATT West Crisis and Te Atarau Acute Mental Health Unit - made some great friends in this time with patients, staff and colleagues in the new team for the Te Atarau Mental Health Unit in 1993. Prior to that, there were no mental health services on the Waitākere Hospital site, Te Atarau was the first West Auckland step towards closing the outdated Carrington Hospital, that is now Unitec. It's all now updated to Waiatarau Unit and services at Paramount Drive.

Community Officer, then Assistant District Manager for Te Rakipae-Whenua ki Kaipara

1986-1988

Based in Birkenhead, working in Māori community development, for housing, education, welfare and employment issues. This view is at Sherpherd's Park, here in Beach Haven, which is on the route of my regular fitness walk.

Māori Access Training Liaison Officer (MATLO)

1985-1988

Worked as the MATLO, based at Ōrakei but covering the whole Kaipara region, establishing Training and Employment programmes. Stayed on the MACCESS committee as Secretary after I left the MATLO role. I only had one son at this time, Paenua. He's all grown up now, seen here with his fiancé Mary, at Franz Josef Glacier.

Tumuaki Māori (Māori Vice President)

Jointly, with Mate Paihana Pūriri

1985

Everyone remembers their first job. This was mine, memorable because I also lived in Wellington. We represented student concerns, as their national union rep, and lobbied University Senates, Councils, MPs and Government. Nuclear issues after the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland by the French Government, student carparking problems at Canterbury, introducing user pays into the education sector, the new Tomorrows Schools policy that was being developed by the Labour Government, institutional racism in our tertiary system, cutting the Students Arts Council budget and changing up to the first student FM radio station were the big issues of the day.

This is a pic of Mum and Dad, at the farewell that Matua Tanekaha and the Mō Wai Te Ora team put on for me, at Te Wai Takere Oranga Marae in November 2010.

Taku moko tuatahi, he kotiro ia. I whanau ia i te tau 2020.

Science Holiday Camp at NorthTec, Whangarei with some of our Hato Pētera boys in 2013 - great fun.

Taken at our Pōwhiri 2015, from L to R: Shanan Halbert, Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman, ahau and Te Hira Paenga. Dr Coleman was here for a visit with our Health Science Academy.

Our plan is to build a marae in the Beach Haven Birkdale community to ensure that we have somewhere for our people to stand strong, in the urban setting, and to support whānau so that we don't need to keep having tangihanga in our garages. For more info, click here:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/69290359/garage-funerals-for-north-shore-maori

I prefer textile hobbies, such as sewing, knitting and crochet - these are portable and I usually have a project in my bag. I've made 3 more since then, and am working on a fourth. I need this relaxation activity, which doubles as "thinking time." I'm making another as a wedding gift for my nephew, in March 2021.

I'm turning down the top edge of a small basket here, but I think this will become a favourite hobby as I grow older.

I should probably not own up to this, but I am a teeny bit of a Minecraft freak. In this pic from my PE version, some other player has pinched my two beds. Lucky, my chests contain diamonds, iron ore and blocks of wool so I can make some more.

Also addicted to Shop TItans.