Medical Imaging Technologist, Radiology

Are you seeking a career that provides opportunities to develop and share medical knowledge within a diverse and challenging health environment? Do you want a career that makes a difference?

Health New Zealand - Counties Manukau Radiology is located in South Auckland across Middlemore Hospital, Kidz First Children's Hospital and Manukau Health Park (MHP), and is at the forefront of innovative health care delivery with the New Zealand Public Health Sector. Middlemore Hospital includes the National Burns Centre and is a major trauma hospital specialising in spinal and plastics. Our busy department serves a diverse community and is rapidly growing with planned expansion, including new premises at MHP opening in 2026.

Our Radiology department is large and diverse with state of the art medical imaging equipment that includes:

• 13 General x-ray rooms, all with DR
• Two dedicated Angiography suites
• A specialist Radiology Theatre service with 3D O arm imaging and flat panel image intensifiers
• Five CT scanners performing acute and elective CT scans, including Cardiac CT
• 3 MRI Scanners 3T and 1.5T MRI scanners
• 2 Cardiac Catheter suites

We have a lot to offer:

• Ongoing commitment to professional development and educational opportunities
• Opportunities to train in specialist modalities
• A wide variety of work
• New, modern state of the art equipment
• Very supportive team environment
• Career progression opportunities

About the Role

This is a shift working fixed term position available from January 2026 and ending in December 2026. The successful applicant will need to hold an APC in either MIT or MRI scope (or both) with the New Zealand Medical Radiation Technologist Board. Full-time or part-time options are available.

Imaging across outpatients, emergency, ward and critical care patients you will be provided with protocols and equipment training. You will be expected to interpret referrals and apply your clinical decision-making skills to provide high-quality diagnostic imaging.

About the Team/Service/ Location

The MIT Team works across Cath Lab, IR, CT, Theatre, MRI and General X-ray. All staff MIT working in a speciality retain their general x-ray skills. The staff and students are supported by the MIT Team Leader, Modality Leads and 2ICs.

Middlemore Hospital and Kidz First Children's hospital are located in Otahuhu, whilst our outpatient clinics and day surgery centre is located in Manukau, a short distance from our main site.

About you

We welcome applications from new graduates, MITs about to complete MRI post-graduate study or an experienced MITs that hold both MIT and/or MRI scopes of practice. The successful candidate will need to be adaptable with a focus for high-quality service delivery and support junior colleagues and MIT students.

If you are a Medical Imaging Technologist wanting to work in the busiest trauma hospital in Australasia with an extensive range of pathology - heres your opportunity

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

How to Apply

To apply please click apply now. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by the 10th of December 2025. To review the job description, please click here.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Alison Goodare (MRT Team Leader) on

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind Manaakitanga, Together Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.