We estimate there are over 400 vacancies in New Zealand for qualified Physiotherapists. 

New Zealand Opportunities has over 100 active vacancies and are recruiting physiotherapists with all levels of experience for multi discipline roles from one end of New Zealand to the other. 

Vacancies include team physios, clinical specialists and clinical leadership and mentoring roles.

Many roles with our clients offer continuing skills development through to clinical skills specialisation or leadership and management development. 

All of our clients are happy to recruit overseas, some have substantial relocation assistance packages available.

Physiotherapists have a wide range of skills and provide services across the medical sector.  Our clients are recruiting Physiotherapists to work in the below areas.

• Sports Injuries & Sports Physiotherapy
• Pre-Surgical Rehabilitation Services
• Post-Surgical Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation
• Dry Needling & Acupuncture
• Biomechanical Analysis
• Postural Assessment
• Telehealth Physio Treatment
• Pelvic Health Physiotherapy for Women’s and Men’s Health 
• Public-health physiotherapy-rehabilitation-services
• On-site Physiotherapy clinics in Schools
• Equipment & Orthotics - Moon boots, knee or ankle braces, crutches and other

Apart from your specialist physiotherapist disciplines, the better way to describe the physio health sector is by employer – public hospital, private hospital, large private medical entities supporting hospitals and clinics, private clinics, and sports-oriented clinics.

The main prerequisite to gaining a role in New Zealand is registration with the Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand.  Qualifications from South Africa, England, USA, Canada, Australia and Ireland are accepted, other countries need further assessment, it is a paper based process and takes 2-3 months to achieve.  The registration application is essentially a very large and detailed cv on the Physio board registration templates https://www.physioboard.org.nz/i-want-to-be-registered/overseas.   It does require 2 short essays and material is supplied for this.

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Mike Slee leads the physiotherapist recruitment practice.

He has been active in competitive sports for over 30 years and during this has developed a considerable appreciation for Physiotherapists and the work they do.



Mike Slee
+64 (0)29 939 1829
Mike@NzOps.co.nz

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