Regulatory and migration services for healthcare employers
Our in-house regulatory and migration services support both doctors and healthcare providers, independently of recruitment. Need help bringing on a doctor you already found? We've got you covered.Our dedicated and trusted team of MARA registered migration agents navigate the complex regulatory and migration process, so you don’t have to. We are highly skilled at finding clear pathways for doctors to start jobs as soon as possible and are experienced in knowing the right time to provide the right documentation.
Find out more below, or contact us to discuss your options.
What regulatory and migration services do we offer doctors and healthcare employers?
Our regulatory and migration expertise is offered to both doctors directly as well as healthcare employers who have found a doctor but need help with the regulatory and migration credentialing processes:
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) registration
- Medical College application
- Area of Need application
- District of Workforce Shortage (DWS) advice
- Assistance with Primary Source Verification application (AMC & EPIC)
- MCNZ applications, including Vocational, Provisional General and Locum Tenens
- Medicare provider and prescriber numbers including 19AB exemptions and Academic exemptions
- Immigration assistance for temporary skilled shortage program, nomination and visa applications
- Immigration assistance for employer nomination scheme visa applications
- Immigration assistance for other temporary and permanent visa options
What are the benefits of working with our regulatory and migration team?
- Ensures 100% compliance with all regulatory and migration administrative requirements
- Minimises processing time
- Keeps you one step ahead as we understand the common issues and complications that arise and have the expertise to anticipate and resolve issues in advance
- You are kept immediately up to date on any regulatory or migration changes thanks to our strong relationships with key contacts at regulatory bodies
- Finds pathways for doctors you may not otherwise be able to employ
Case Study: Empowering Regional Healthcare
Discover how our team, specialising in immigration and visa services, helped a regional healthcare provider address critical nursing shortages in preparing and lodging employer nomination applications for more than 110 nursing positions.
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 Leader
Meet our Anaesthetics team
Meet our Emergency Medicine team

Fiona Jackson
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Emergency Medicine
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Rebecca Newman
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Emergency Medicine

Mikaila Brooks
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Emergency Medicine

Jade-Maree Camilleri
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Anaesthetics, ICU & Emergency Medicine

Ashlea Harvey
Recruitment Consultant – Permanent Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics, ICU, O&G, Fertility and Paediatrics
Meet our General Practice team

Max Drakeley
GP Team Leader

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

Eamon McCurry
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Physicians and Paediatrics

Kelly Deakin
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Physicians
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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

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
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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 Leader
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 Emergency Medicine

Jade-Maree Camilleri
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Anaesthetics, ICU & Emergency Medicine
Jade prioritises her doctors' career aspirations, motivations, lifestyle and interests in order to provide them with the best service and help them secure the best opportunities.

Tabather Cain
Recruitment Consultant – Locum Anaesthetics & ICU
With great established Hospital relationships Australia-wide, Tabi utilises this to seek the Doctors she works with the most suitable career opportunities. She aims to provide her Doctors with a high level of service and help them secure the best opportunities that fulfil their needs and career motivations.
Get in touch with Tabi today to discuss the latest Anaesthetic and ICU locum job opportunities.

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
Yasmin has 5 years of recruitment experience across a variety of sectors in both the UK and Australia.
Yasmin is focused on helping Psychiatrists find locum roles to suit their interests and lifestyle in a wide variety of locations across Australia.

Courtney Lewis
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry
Courtney has worked in medical recruitment since 2013, recruiting consultants/specialists for locum positions throughout Australia.
Courtney is passionate about supporting psychiatrists through the different stages of their careers and finding the best locum job to suit their preferences. She understands the different areas of psychiatry, and what it takes to match their skills with the right mental health service.

Robyn Pascoe
Recruitment Consultant - Locum Psychiatry (Non-Specialist)
Robyn has over twelve years of recruitment experience. She has been working with Non-Specialist doctors since 2014 and joined the Wavelength Psychiatry team in 2021 to focus on Mental Health locums.
Robyn manages Non-Specialist Psychiatry roles Australia wide, working with a long list of hospitals seeking quality locums. She has extensive knowledge of locum placements and is passionate about building meaningful, long-term relationships with her doctors and completely understanding their needs.

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

Chloe Frost
Recruitment Consultant - Permanent Psychiatry, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology
What our doctors and clients have to say
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"The team at Wavelength was so helpful in assisting me with the intricacies involved in finding work in another country. Nothing was too much trouble and I was kept informed at all stages. If, like me, you’re thinking of expanding your horizons I cannot recommend Wavelength highly enough to help you achieve your ambitions."
Dr Rob
Consultant Anaesthetist -
"Leiara has been wonderful in providing us with clear and comprehensive advice, helping us navigate the complex visa processes. Her communication skills are excellent, and she consistently responds promptly, even outside of regular working hours. She has even offered to speak with our London-based HR team outside of her working hours, which we greatly appreciate."
Shannon Wood
Operations Lead - GLAS Agency -
“Throughout the process of my move from the United Kingdom to Australia, the Wavelength Migration team provided timely support and excellent service, being accessible and responsive at all times. Moving countries is understandably stressful and I remember having so many uncertainties, the team was able to contain that anxiety professionally and provided succinct and accurate expectations and suggestions at the time of my application.”
Dr Kelvin Leung
Psychiatry Registrar -
“The whole medical registration process seemed so daunting at first, I almost gave up. Thanks to Wavelength, my dream to work as a GP in Australia is now a reality. With Wavelength’s help, the whole process seemed like a pleasant walk in the park!”
Dr Pavel Belokopytov
General Practitioner