Fast-Track Your Specialist GP Career in Australia
In late 2024, AHPRA unveiled its Expedited Specialist Pathway (ESP) for overseas-trained specialist GPs looking to practise in Australia. This new pathway has significantly shorter processing times, lower costs and simplified paperwork. Say goodbye to the hurdles of the past—this is your opportunity to start your career down under with ease!
With over 25 years of experience guiding overseas-trained GPs, Wavelength International is your expert partner for a smooth and successful transition. We offer streamlined solutions and personalised support to help you navigate the Expedited Specialist Pathway (ESP) and land your dream job faster.
Why work with Wavelength
- Faster registration: Avoid lengthy assessments and delays.
- Expert support: Our team provides personalized guidance throughout the process.
- Successful placements: We have a proven track record of helping overseas GPs find their ideal roles.
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Unlock exclusive resources and personalised support
Register below and gain access to:
- A comprehensive overview of the ESP: What it is, how it works, and who is eligible.
- Requirements for GPs: Specific criteria that must be met to apply for the ESP.
- Requirements for clinics: Information for GP clinics interested in hiring overseas-trained GPs.
- Application process: Step-by-step guidance on how to apply for the ESP.
- Fees and processing times: Details about the costs involved and the expected timeframe for the application.
- Frequently asked questions: Answers to common questions about the ESP.
Why the first stop on your international adventure is Wavelength
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“I am very happy and excited about my new job in SA. The whole journey of an IMG, from day 1 registration with AMC to obtaining a Visa, gives an insight into one's own career. This journey taught me to file every small detail about my career. This helped me to sail through all the requirements without any difficulty. Now I am looking forward to starting a new phase of my life in Australia”.
Dr. Raghunanda Narasimhaiah -
"When it comes to immigration, there is a lot at stake and it’s important to get it right the first time. Wavelength Migration Services have never failed us. They offer reliable advice to Health Professionals and their families and take care of every step along the way to Temporary Visas, PR or Citizenship."
Nicole Dickhaut
Practice Manager, BITS Medical Centre -
"The kind services / guidance I have been provided by each of the company members is just out of this world. Everybody has been very well involved, kind and expert in responding to queries. They have been thoroughly professional which makes the difficult and lengthy immigration process easy and doable."
Anonymous
(International Doctor) -
"The whole team were really helpful with the move, and Jane who has kept in touch with me since I moved to Australia to check up on me and how I'm getting on, they made the process as smooth as possible which was great."
Dr Ben Pilkington
General Practitioner -
"Absolutely amazing service. I would like to tell everyone please take professional service from wavelength. They have good expertise and experience getting lodging your visa application. I got my skilled visa in just 3 days. Highly recommended."
Dr Sohin Thaim
General Practitioner -
"My consultant Jane, has been very accommodating, patient and understands my needs. She went all out to find me practices which she feels suits me best and never gave up. She has been more like a friend and very dedicated to helping me progress further."
Anonymous
(International GP)
Meet the team
Meet our Leadership team
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Claire Ponsford
Owner and Director

Chris Riley
Chief Executive Officer
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Katrina Haddad
Chief Experience Officer

Melissa Corr
General Manager - People & Culture

Paul Darby
General Manager - Hospital Services Locum

Carole Paterson
Partnership & Contracts Manager

Elinor Faulkner
Team Leader - Regulatory & Migration

Max Drakeley
GP Team Manager

Melissa Welsh
Recruitment Operations Manager

Skye Rogers
Team Manager - JLD, JAM-ED
Meet our Emergency Medicine team
Meet our General Practice team

Max Drakeley
GP Team Manager

EJ Cuaresma
Recruitment Consultant – Permanent GP

Jane Stanke
Recruitment Consultant - Permanent GP (UK Based)

Charlie Hellmundt
Recruitment Consultant – Locum GP

Amy Beddall
Associate Recruiter - Locum GP

Anna Mullins
Recruitment Consultant – Locum GP AMS
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Emma Chadwick
Recruitment Consultant – Locum GP
Meet our Medicine team

Kelly Deakin
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Physicians

Emily Rumble
Recruitment Consultant - General Medicine & Surgery

Claudine Zaarour
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Physicians

Ben Chegwidden
Recruitment Consultant - Locum General Medicine

Chloe Frost
Recruitment Consultant - Permanent Psychiatry, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology
Meet our Psychiatry team

Mikaila Brooks
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry

Yasmin Lockey
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry

Courtney Lewis
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry

Robyn Pascoe
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry (Non-Specialist)

Chloe Frost
Recruitment Consultant - Permanent Psychiatry, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology
Meet our Healthcare Executive Search team
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Claire Ponsford
Owner and Director
With a strong background in medical recruitment, Claire established Wavelength International in 1999 with Dr John Bethell to address a growing shortage of junior and middle-grade doctors in the Australian public hospital system.
Almost 25 years later, Claire is proud to head an ethical medical recruitment and migration services company, founded on integrity, and driven to serve the needs of the healthcare industry.

Chris Riley
Chief Executive Officer
In 2016, Chris Riley joined Wavelength as our Chief Executive Officer. Prior to 2016, Chris has had an extensive career history leading recruitment companies across Australia and New Zealand.
Chris' broad 30-year senior recruitment management experience helps Wavelength align our services more closely to our clients and candidates in an increasingly competitive market.
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Katrina Haddad
Chief Experience Officer
Katrina joined Wavelength as the industry’s first Chief Experience Officer in 2022, leading marketing, digital and the broader organisation on a customer-centric transformation.
Katrina’s passions revolve around customer-centred strategies, specialising in customer and market segmentation, voice of customer, research, analysis, and user-centred design for brand, product, service and marketing/communications.
She has worked across a variety of industries, advocating for the value that a business can gain through structured voice of customer programs and customer-led innovation. She maintains professional accreditation and membership across both research and CX disciplines.

Melissa Corr
General Manager - People & Culture
Joining in 2023, Melissa possesses over 20 years’ experience as a leader and HR practitioner across financial and professional services, both in Australia and the UK.
Providing an exceptional employee experience to support business outcomes is central to her approach.

Paul Darby
General Manager - Hospital Services Locum
Paul joined Wavelength in 2023 as the General Manager of Hospital Services, Locum. He has worked in the recruitment industry in Australia and the UK for 18 years, and moved into the Healthcare sector in 2018.
Throughout his career, he has trained and coached a large number of successful recruitment consultants and has taken responsibility for new business development and client account management. He is particularly passionate about the locum doctor sector and the impact his division at Wavelength has on regional & remote communities across Australia.

Carole Paterson
Partnership & Contracts Manager
Carole joined Wavelength in 2008 as a recruiter. Now, she focuses on internal business projects including partnerships, tenders and operational initiatives.
Carole has extensive experience recruiting across the Locum Hospital and GP divisions, which has developed her knowledge across a wide variety of specialities and has enabled her to visit rural and remote locations throughout Australia.

Elinor Faulkner
Team Leader - Regulatory & Migration
With over a decade of experience, Elinor is an expert on all the registration and Medicare requirements that an overseas-trained specialist needs to complete during the migration process. She is our Regulatory and Migration Team Leader, and ensures the team provide a smooth transition to Australia and New Zealand for all our doctors.

Max Drakeley
GP Team Manager
As Wavelength's GP Team Leader, Max ensures our doctors maximally enjoy their career and feel proud of the valued work they do, whilst helping our partnered organisations operate at their highest possible capacities and experience less stress.

Craig Picard
Recruitment Consultant - Locum O&G and Paediatrics
Working with Wavelength since August 2012, Craig currently recruits locum O&G and Paediatric doctors for both public and private hospitals.
He prides himself on establishing the precise requirements of locum doctors and healthcare employers and providing the best solution possible.

Fiona Jackson
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Emergency Medicine
Fiona joined Wavelength in 2021 as a locum recruitment consultant, helping junior (CMO) and middle grade (REG) Emergency Medicine doctors find the most rewarding ED locum jobs that suit their personal and professional lifestyles.
She understands her Emergency Doctors work in a high-pressured environment, by being efficient and transparent she believes this will help support her doctors with all locum placements.

Mikaila Brooks
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry
Mikaila has accumulated over 10 years of experience within the health industry, which has allowed her to build in-depth knowledge of locum policies and procedures.
Before joining Wavelength, Mikaila was coordinating locums for NSW Health.

Jade-Maree Camilleri
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Anaesthetics & ICU
Jade joined Wavelength in 2022 and has since cultivated strong, lasting relationships with doctors and clients nationwide.
She takes the time to understand each doctor’s motivations, lifestyle, and interests, so she can match them with locum roles that align with their personal and professional goals.
Jade works closely with hospitals to ensure they have access to medical professionals who can best serve their communities.

Tabather Cain
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Anaesthetics & ICU
Tabi has been working in medical recruitment since 2018 and has in-depth knowledge of the Anaesthetics and ICU locum market in Australia.
She goes above and beyond for her doctors, making their experience as easy as possible by reducing the burden of paperwork and logistics.
Tabi enjoys helping doctors find the best locum roles and, in turn, helping hospitals find the best doctors.

Tahnee Love
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Surgery

EJ Cuaresma
Recruitment Consultant – Permanent GP

Jane Stanke
Recruitment Consultant - Permanent GP (UK Based)
Based in Cheltenham, UK, Jane can provide UK, Irish and Europe-based doctors as well as Canadian GPs with a more efficient and personalised service, whilst also offering Australian and NZ-based doctors the convenience to speak in the evenings after finishing consulting for the day.

Charlie Hellmundt
Recruitment Consultant – Locum GP

Amy Beddall
Associate Recruiter - Locum GP
Amy joined Wavelength in 2012 following the completion of her degree, majoring in Human Resources.
Amy always strives to deliver an exceptional service and takes great pride in matching the right doctor to a role that they will enjoy and grow in.

Anna Mullins
Recruitment Consultant – Locum GP AMS
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Emma Chadwick
Recruitment Consultant – Locum GP
With 16 years of recruitment experience across the UK and Australia, Emma has developed a wealth of expertise in connecting the right talent with the right opportunities. For the past 14 years, she has focused her career within the healthcare sector, where she has built a reputation for her deep understanding of the industry and her commitment to excellence.
Emma is passionate about fostering honest, transparent relationships with clients and candidates. She takes pride in her ability to understand each person's unique needs, ensuring that every match she makes is the perfect fit. Her approach is built on trust, integrity, and a dedication to delivering results that truly meet the long-term goals of all parties involved.

Eamon McCurry
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Physicians and Paediatrics
Eamon joined Wavelength over 10 years ago and has worked across various recruitment teams including Surgery and General Medicine. This experience across the business has provided him with an in-depth knowledge of how to help all our doctors find the perfect jobs to suit their needs.
Eamon is driven to help locum doctors find the right role at a hospital that fits their lifestyle and interests, while also helping healthcare employers to find the perfect doctor for their team.

Kelly Deakin
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Physicians
With over 4 years of experience in GP locum recruitment, Kelly now works at Wavelength, specialising in placing physicians across General Medicine and its sub-specialities in Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.
Kelly is passionate about supporting regional and remote hospitals. She works closely with exceptional doctors to find the perfect locum roles that align with their lifestyle and career goals.

Claudine Zaarour
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Physicians
With a degree in Psychology as well as a diploma in human resources, and over a decade of recruitment experience behind her, Claudine Zaarour joined Wavelength in 2005.
Claudine helps Locum Physicians across General Medicine and all its sub-specialities find the perfect Locum roles to suit their lifestyle from her wide network of hospitals in NSW, VIC, TAS, SA and ACT.

Amber Derby-Davies
Recruitment Consultant - Locum O&G

Ben Chegwidden
Recruitment Consultant - Locum General Medicine

Yasmin Lockey
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry
Since 2020, Yasmin has been helping Psychiatrists find rewarding locum roles across Australia.
With an unrivalled network of hospitals and in-depth knowledge of the market, doctors rely on Yasmin for support throughout their career.
She is passionate about finding the right fit for her doctors, matching their interests and goals with the best locum opportunities.

Courtney Lewis
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry
Courtney has worked in medical recruitment since 2013, placing locum consultants throughout Australia.
She is dedicated to supporting Psychiatrists through every stage of their career, finding the best locum jobs so they can achieve their goals.
Courtney understands the different areas of psychiatry and how to match skills with the right mental health service.

Robyn Pascoe
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry (Non-Specialist)
Robyn has been working with non-specialist doctors since 2014 and joined Wavelength in 2021 to focus on psychiatry locums.
She has extensive knowledge of locum placements and creates a seamless process for the doctors and clients she works with.
Robyn enjoys building meaningful, long-term relationships and takes the time to understand each doctors' unique needs and goals.

Nicole Langan
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Surgery
Nicole Langan is one of Wavelength’s most senior medical recruiters, with over 18 years of experience. She manages Locum Surgery recruitment.
Nicole has built up a wealth of knowledge about the medical industry during her time with Wavelength and is heavily networked with public and private hospitals throughout Australia.

Ashlea Harvey
Recruitment Consultant – Permanent Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics, ICU, O&G, Fertility and Paediatrics
Ashlea's medical recruitment career began in 2019 and she joined the Wavelength team in 2021.
She takes pride in listening to her doctors' needs and she uses her great relationships with hospitals Australia-wide to find them the most rewarding permanent roles.
With a genuine passion for making a difference, Ashlea provides a tailored, flexible and diligent approach to every doctor and healthcare employer she partners with.

Chloe Frost
Recruitment Consultant - Permanent Psychiatry, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology
Chloe has been working in recruitment since 2016 and now helps doctors find fulfilling permanent roles across Australia and New Zealand.
She has a wealth of experience in credentialing and compliance - a huge plus for her doctors, especially those making the move from overseas.
With a focus on building strong relationships, Chloe seamlessly matches talented medical professionals with the healthcare employers that need them most.

Skye Rogers
Team Manager - JLD, JAM-ED
Skye joined Wavelength in 2025 as the Team Manager of JAMED, bringing over 16 years of experience in medical recruitment, including 12 years dedicated to working with locum doctors. Specialising in the placement of Emergency doctors in locum roles across Australia, she is passionate about supporting healthcare delivery by connecting talented doctors with hospitals in need. In her role, she leads a dedicated team of consultants, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment focused on delivering exceptional service to both doctors and healthcare clients.