Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
In this position, you will provide a Diagnostic reporting service for all modalities in the Paediatric Radiology Department and provide sub specialty expertise in Paediatric Neuroradiology. There are opportunities to participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings across all the subspecialty services, including Neurology, Neurosurgery, Metabolic and Neuro-oncology
On call requirements are approximately 1:10 weeks.
The position is a permanent fulltime (1.26 FTE). You will be responsible for issuing reports, supervising registrars and teaching, liaising with other services, providing opinions and reporting on external imaging, supervising sonographers and working closely with radiographers.
For further details, please refer to the position description here.
Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills
As the ideal candidate, you will be a qualified Paediatric Radiologist with Fellowship Training, preferably including Neuroradiology. You should have clinical experience in all aspects of general paediatric radiology including conventional radiographs, fluoroscopic procedures, ultrasound, CT and MR. You will need to work as part of a small, but collaborative inter and intra-disciplinary team.
You will have or be eligible to apply for vocational registration and Annual Practising Certificate with the Medical Council of New Zealand.
Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation
We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.
We are part of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.
We are also an Accredited Employer with Immigration NZ (Please visit Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa for more information if you will be needing a Work Visa)
We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.
Starship Hospital provides subspeciality services including cardiology, respiratory, oncology, neurology, endocrinology, infectious diseases, immunology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, renal and child protection services. Acute services provided are the children’s emergency department, surgical services including trauma, orthopaedic, neurosurgery, ENT and general surgery and paediatric and newborn intensive care units. All services provide a supportive consultant led environment.
The Starship Radiology department in Te Toka Tumai Auckland services an active specialist referral base with tertiary and quaternary clinical services to a large population. You will be joining a team of 11 Paediatric Radiologists supported by a wider team of Registrars, Radiographers, Sonographers, Nurses, RIS-PACS and administrative support staff. We are an accredited teaching hospital and provide a full range of services from neonatal imaging to 15 years (and older) to a hospital which has 230 beds including 40 NICU, 20 PICU and 10 HDU beds.
He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here
We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.
For more information on what we offer, please click here.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply
Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role.
If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, or require information in an accessible format, please contact Aaron Chamberlain at aaronchamb@adhb.govt.nz to discuss how we can best support your application.
Immigration/Visa Support
Immigration NZ has introduced a new Accredited Employer Work Visa system from 4 July 2022 that includes a simplified residency process for health workers on the new “Green List” of occupations – and this position is one of those designated critical positions! For successful candidates offered a position with us who require a Work Visa, we will provide support with their Visa application. Here are the links to two key pages of NZ Immigration's official site for more information: Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa and Immigration NZ Green List Occupations