Te Ara Tupu a Manawa Taki Workforce Hub
Te Ara Tupu a Manawa Taki Workforce Hub has been established to support the primary and community workforce to access training, funding, and development opportunities across the region.
Our focus is on strengthening the local workforce so care can be delivered closer to whānau, improving access and equity across Te Manawa Taki.
The Hub brings together workforce initiatives funded through Health New Zealand, helping coordinate training, enablement funding, and regional workforce development efforts. It also provides a regional view of workforce needs to help inform future planning and investment.
What are the initiatives we are supporting?
The Hub is supporting a number of initiatives, and started with EOI processes for medical, nursing and allied health kaimahi to apply for planned care training, PRIME training for rural clinicians and cyber risk training to raise awareness of cybersecurity. These have been opened since, July 2026. The aim is to support kaimahi to upskill and be able to deliver services in primary care.
Based on funding eligibility, this includes support for:
course fees
backfill or locum cover
travel and accommodation, where needed
In addition, the Hub is taking over the CBA fund administration.
The Regional Workforce Development Lead is building relationships across the 11 PHOs in Te Manawa Taki and with our primary care and community health provider partners, including aged-residential care to promote the opportunities on offer and gather intel on the needs of local districts.
Click on this link to know more and apply.
What is coming next?
Health NZ will roll out further workforce initiatives over the coming months.
This includes:
graduate nurse transition to practice
unregulated workforce training fund
Kaiāwhina training support
funding for identified workforce priorities
We're here to help!
Media queries: communications@pinnacle.health.nz
PHO and kaimahi workforce development queries: Veronique Gibbons, Regional Workforce Development Lead
Contact your local workforce development service:
Northern
Email kiaora@workforcehub.co.nz
Northern Workforce Hubexternal link
Midland | Te Manawa Taki
Email RegionalWFDApplications@pinnacle.health.nz
Te Manawa Taki Workforce Hubexternal link
Central | Te Ikaroa
Email centralregionwfd@tuora.org.nz
Central | Te Ikaroa Workforce Development Hub — Tū Oraexternal link