Working in Australia

A move to Australia is the adventure of a lifetime. Overseas health professionals are welcomed and opportunities abound. We have world-class healthcare services and a unique range of working and living environments.

Wavelength International has many years experience placing doctors and Allied Health professionals in every state and territory, in a variety of settings.

Geography

Australian cities are high-tech and fast-paced with a friendly, cosmopolitan atmosphere. Rural and remote locations include famous wine growing regions, sleepy coastal towns and outback Aboriginal communities. From the Great Barrier Reef to the Snowy Mountains, the range of options in Australia is as vast and varied as the landscape itself.

Public Healthcare in Australia

Every state in Australia runs its own hospital system. Australian metropolitan and teaching hospitals are among the best equipped and most advanced in the world, offering first-class healthcare and clinical training.

Secondary referral centres tend to be very self reliant because of the distances between facilities. Rural practices and hospitals offer a great opportunity for some hands-on clinical experience.

Services like the Royal Flying Doctor Service are partly run on funds raised by the public.

Private Healthcare in Australia

Our private healthcare system is robust and well-funded through Medicare. We have many private hospital groups, independent General Practices and Allied Health Clinics.

Private health insurance is not mandatory but is popular as it confers tax benefits and gives you access to many preventative services.

Health Careers

Whilst uniquely Australian, most of the health professions in Australia take their career structure and training from the equivalent professions in the United Kingdom from which they are historically derived.

Overseas health professionals tend to assimilate with varying degrees of ease depending how similar their core training is to the Australian system.

For more information about working conditions in Australia see our Australian FAQs

For more information about working as a locum in Australia see our Locum FAQs

For more information about working in Allied Health in Australia see our Allied Health FAQs