Ent Registrar

ENT Registrar - Annual Recruitment 2025/2026 Year

Job Number:
WAI27687**TE WHATU ORA - WAIKATO DISTRICT

Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery

ENT Non SET Registrar

Full Time

Applications are invited for the 2025/2026 training year for non SET Registrar Positions (2yrs+ Post Graduation) at Waikato Hospital.

Waikato Hospital is a teaching hospital and the major tertiary referral center providing specialized and emergency healthcare for the Te Manawa Taki and Waikato area, with a catchment of ~ 1,007,000 people.

It is the only major Hospital in New Zealand to offer all surgical specialties on one campus and is the major trauma hospital for the Te Manawa Taki region.

Our departmental workload includes both general ENT work and Tertiary work provided by Subspecialists with Fellowship training in Head and Neck, Paediatrics, Otology, Facial plastics and Rhinology.

We have a strong focus on teaching, research and career progression and have a track record of supervising non-training Registrars onto the training programme and Senior registrars through the final exam.

Waikato Hospital has 550 general inpatient beds, performs in excess of 34,000 surgical procedures per year in the 24 theatre operating suite, and sees an average of 220 emergency department presentations per day.

Located in Hamilton city, the third largest city in North Island; 11⁄2 hours drive south of Auckland, and offers a superb lifestyle and quality-of-life working environment.

As the largest employer in Hamilton, there is a varied and approachable social network based around the hospital. It is within easy reach of both West Coast surfing and East Coast leisure beaches.

The Ruapehu Ski-fields are three hours drive away, and there are outstanding opportunities for hiking, sailing, fishing, biking and many other outdoor activities within the Waikato, and throughout New Zealand.

If you are an overseas doctor would you please visit the Medical Council of New Zealand web site to ensure that your qualifications meet their criteria for registration to practice medicine in New Zealand.

The direct link to their self-assessment page is:

You will need to complete the six questions to ascertain whether or not you are eligible for registration in NZ.

If you do not have access to do the self-assessment test on-line you can contact the MCNZ by telephone:

Closing date: 10 June 2024

Reference form

Position Description Otolaryngology

• Values_
• Theme "People at Heart"
• Te iwi Ngakaunui_
• Give and earn respect
• Whakamana
• Listen to me; talk to me
• Whakarongo

Fair play

• Mauri Pai

Growing the good

• Whakapakari

Stronger together

• Kotahitanga

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