Health and community recruitment for regional employers

Hire Australia is a regional recruitment specialist for nurses and midwives, allied health professionals, doctors and specialists, dental and eye health staff, health managers, and aged care, personal care and disability support workers. Each group above lists its roles and links to their guides.

From 1 July 2026 the national Nurses Award minimum is $1,219.50 a week for a registered nurse at level 1, pay point 1, outside aged care (aged care minimums are higher from 1 August 2026), and from 1 July 2026 a qualified aged care direct care employee earns at least $1,376.70.^5,6 National medians in May 2025 were $2,192 a week for registered nurses and $1,761 for aged and disabled carers.⁴ Hire Australia talks through your pay range early.

Often, yes. In the September quarter 2026, 44% of recruiting health care and social assistance employers had difficulty filling a vacancy, as did 49% of all employers outside the capital cities.³ On the 2026 shortage list, 67 of 99 health professional occupations are rated in shortage nationally or in regional areas.² Hire Australia builds the roster and location into every health search.

We ask every candidate about their registration or screening status and the settings they have worked in, and we pass on what they tell us. Registration shows on the national register kept by Ahpra, and screening checks are issued by state and territory screening units.^11,13 Hire Australia builds them into the brief, and you check the register and complete the formal checks as the employer.

No. Hire Australia recruits people you employ directly, in permanent roles. We don’t supply labour hire or temps, and candidates never work on our payroll. We search for and screen people for your vacancy, introduce the ones who fit, and you make the offer and employ them. That keeps the working relationship between you and your new employee from day one.

Employers pay nothing until the successful candidate has started and stayed two months. Candidates never pay for recruitment. You employ the person directly, and we agree the terms with you in writing before the search begins. The same terms apply to every health and community role Hire Australia recruits, from nurses and doctors to support workers.