International healthcare recruitment, built around long-term retention
Experienced international professionals for New Zealand services, with the relocation support that makes them stay.
- Medical imaging
- Radiation therapy
- Sonography
- Anaesthetic technicians
- Allied health
- Psychology
- Social work
- Psychiatry and other medical specialties
Public and private services, across the country
New Zealand is where Ethicare’s record was built: regional and metropolitan public services, and private providers, in roles that had stayed open. We recruit into the professions we understand properly and say so when a role sits outside them.
Screened for professional experience and eligibility, and also for motivation, family circumstances and a real commitment to relocating. A move the household has not discussed is not a placement we make.
We know each regulator’s route and timeline, prepare candidates for how New Zealand services interview, support the practical side of the immigration process alongside your team, and help families settle: schools, housing, a partner’s work.
Placements are lost in the first year, usually for relocation reasons rather than clinical ones. Realistic expectations before the offer and family-centred support after arrival are what make international recruitment sustainable rather than a cycle.
Most recruitment ends at the start date. Ours starts there.
International placements fail for relocation reasons far more often than clinical ones. So the move itself is the work: the household, the town, the first year. It is why the people we introduce arrive prepared, and why they stay.
A partner’s work, the children’s schools and the actual town are discussed in the first conversation, before any offer. A move the family has not talked through is not a placement we make.
Every candidate gets Ethicare’s planning tools free: the step-by-step plan, the destination guides, the first-month and family guides, the registration pathway checker. They arrive having planned the move properly.
A small, deliberate number of placements so the same person stays accountable: registration, the visa alongside your team, the move, and contact through the first year, when placements are won or lost.
No candidate is ever charged a fee. Employers tell us when the next role is coming; the clinicians we have placed introduce colleagues. The Palmerston North anaesthetic technician team is what that looks like.
What it looks like when it works
A sustainable anaesthetic technician team in Palmerston North
Three internationally recruited anaesthetic technicians, placed into one perioperative service and supported through registration, the move and the first year. A team that lasted, rather than three vacancies filled.
Read the case study →“Sophie always puts candidate care first, and has invested heavily in preparing candidates for a successful move — ensuring they have as much support as possible when relocating to a new country.”
Maree LoynesFormer Allied Health Recruitment Specialist, Health New Zealand MidCentral
More on how we work, the toolkit and further case studies: the employer home.
Discuss your recruitment needs.
A role that has stayed open, a service planning ahead, or a workforce question you would like a straight answer to. Start here.
- A person reads it, usually within a working day.
- An answer first — whether we can help, and roughly how long it would take.
- Current vacancies — tell us what is open and we will say what the search would involve.
Recruiting imaging staff in Australia? See our Australian imaging page. Everything else starts at the employer home.
Six fields. A person reads it, usually within a working day.