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Job title: Paediatric Pain Specialist

Organisation: Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

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Closing date: 05 August 2027

• Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland
• Permanent or locum role
• Join New Zealand's leading children's hospital

About the role

We are seeking a Paediatric Pain Medicine Specialist to join the multidisciplinary Paediatric Complex Pain Service at Starship Children's Hospital, New Zealand's premier tertiary paediatric facility. This permanent role offers flexible FTE options, with applications welcomed from both New Zealand and international candidates.

You will provide community-based outpatient care and complex inpatient pain management for children and adolescents with chronic and complex pain conditions. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to service development while making a meaningful difference to young patients and their families.

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About you

We are looking for a collaborative and compassionate specialist with expertise in managing chronic and complex paediatric pain and experience working within an integrated multidisciplinary pain service. Applicants must hold, or be eligible for, vocational registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand. FFPMANZCA or equivalent is preferred. Alternatively, you may be a vocationally registered Paediatrician, Paediatric Surgeon, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist or Anaesthetist with additional training and/or experience in pain medicine. Eligibility to work in New Zealand is essential.

Relocation assistance, CME allowance, study leave, six weeks of pro-rata annual leave, professional development and a competitive salary package are available.

Our Health Immigration team provides free immigration support, with Senior Medical Officers eligible for New Zealand's Straight to Residence Visa pathway.

For further information, please contact Shalini Wright [email protected]

We only accept online applications. Please apply via our website.

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