Radiologist recruitment for regional employers

Diagnostic and interventional radiologists diagnose and treat disease using imaging such as general radiography, fluoroscopy, mammography, ultrasound, CT, MRI and nuclear medicine, and they monitor patients through it.⁵ The qualification is Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. Its Clinical Radiology Training Program runs for five years across three phases.⁶

To practise as a specialist, a radiologist needs specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia in radiology, field of diagnostic radiology, which carries the title "specialist radiologist"; nuclear medicine is a separate field within radiology.⁷ Under the registration standard in force since 21 October 2024, a radiologist newly granted specialist registration needs supervised practice, an orientation to the Australian health system and cultural safety education, though some exemptions apply.⁸ If the radiologist was awarded an approved qualification in the specialty, they may be exempt from the six months of supervised practice, and supervised practice completed in accredited training can count towards it; a radiologist who isn't exempt may be registered with a condition to complete it.⁹ You can check the radiologist's current registration on Ahpra's online register.⁸

Where the Medical Practitioners Award 2020 covers the role, a specialist's minimum is $2,337.21 a week, or $121,535 a year, from 1 July 2026.¹⁸ Including the 10% on-call allowance the award pays specialists, who must be available for reasonable on-call and recall duties, the pay guide rate is $2,570.93 a week.¹⁹ The award covers doctors employed in settings such as hospitals, day procedure centres and community health centres, not employees under a state public sector award.¹⁸

In Queensland, radiology is mostly private: 66% of the state's radiologists work in private practice.³ Public hospital radiologists are paid under state instruments, for example the Staff Specialists (State) Award in New South Wales,²⁰ Queensland Health's Medical Officers' Certified Agreement (No.7) 2025²¹ and Western Australia's 2024 AMA agreement.²²

Other Medical Practitioners, the group that includes radiologists, dermatologists, eye specialists and their registrars, had median full-time earnings of $5,013 a week in May 2025, nationally.⁵ No median exists for radiologists alone or by region, so we settle the salary or billing arrangement, reporting targets and after-hours payments with you first.

Diagnostic imaging billed to Medicare needs a radiologist with specialist recognition and a Medicare provider number.²⁶ The government advises allowing at least 6 weeks for a provider number from November to March.²⁷

Overseas trained specialists and foreign graduates covered by section 19AB generally need to work in a District of Workforce Shortage for 10 years from registration to access Medicare.²⁷ Diagnostic radiology was one of eight specialties with its own test in the November 2023 classification: a location qualifies when its ratio of radiologists to population is below the national average, and every outer regional and remote area qualifies.²⁸ A salaried public hospital role that doesn't attract Medicare benefits isn't restricted.²⁷

Tell us the practice: a public hospital department, a private imaging group or both, the modalities the radiologist will report and supervise, such as CT, MRI, ultrasound, mammography and interventional procedures, and the subspecialty interests that would suit the role.

Then the working pattern: the reporting volume, on-site sessions against remote reporting, the after-hours and weekend roster, registrar teaching, and whether the role bills Medicare.

Radiologists average 45 hours a week when full-time, and 74% worked full-time hours in 2021.⁵ A role that combines on-site sessions with some remote reporting can appeal to a radiologist weighing a regional move.

We start with radiologists who already live in or have ties to your region, then widen the search to those planning a move. Tell us early about housing, relocation costs and the length of any initial contract, and we raise them in the first conversation.

If the right person needs a visa or sponsorship, our sister business Australian Immigration Agency can advise.

Register with Hire Australia and tell us your fellowship, subspecialty, registration and where you would like to work. We talk with you about permanent public and private roles that fit how you want to practise.