Consultant respiratory and sleep physician

Location: Wellington Regional Hospital, Kenepuru Hospital and Hutt Hospital

Service: Respiratory Service

Contract: Permanent, full time (part time negotiable)

Salary: As per ASMS SECA

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we're building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the role

Fancy a change? We are looking for a respiratory/sleep physician (consultant) to expand our current team of 10 physicians. The successful applicant will join our existing friendly and supportive team, with a start date after December 2025 (negotiable). The position is being advertised as full-time but we are happy to discuss options for flexible working.

We are looking for an experienced sleep accredited physician to join our sleep service. The successful applicant will provide outpatient clinics in sleep medicine and non-invasive ventilation. The role will also help advancing the service, developing and overseeing clinical protocols, ensure regulatory and clinical compliance, and provide medical supervision for a growing team of nurses, junior doctors and sleep physiologists. The role includes joining the existing respiratory on-call roster and providing ward cover, however this may be negotiable. Job-plans include approximately 30% non-clinical time for continuing medical education, quality improvement and service development.

Additional sleep medicine related employment may be available by mutual agreement through WellSleep, a NATA accredited sleep laboratory, run by the University of Otago Sleep Investigation Centre. WellSleep employs six clinical physiologists to manage over 1,000 sleep studies each year. There is a range of home sleep apnoea testing and in-laboratory polysomnography including PAP titration, MSLT and MWT testing. There is also availability for daytime NIV acclimatisation and community based PAP trials. Using state-of-the-art digital technology, the WellSleep Centre offers a full range of clinical investigations while adapting to a variety of research-related procedures.

The link with the University of Otago, Wellington (UOW) allows the WellSleep Centre to undertake research while ensuring protocols are research-based and in line with the latest best-practice techniques.

For the right candidate with a strong research background, additional employment may be available by mutual agreement through the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, based at Wellington Hospital.

About our team

The Wellington Respiratory department is based in the main hospital for the capital city of New Zealand and provides secondary care to approximately 450,000 people and tertiary services to a population of around 1 million. The sleep service oversees patients from the greater Wellington region and 2 surrounding districts.

Respiratory Medicine is based in the Clinical Measurement Unit at Wellington Regional Hospital. It provides outpatient services at Wellington and Kenepuru hospitals and in patient services at Wellington Regional Hospital. Outreach clinics are provided at Hutt and Masterton hospitals as well as community clinics.

Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley district is located centrally in Wellington and has over 6,000 full-time equivalent staff, making us one of the major employers in the Wellington region. We operate three hospitals – Wellington Regional Hospital in Newtown, Hutt Valley Hospital and Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua – as well as the Kāpiti Health Centre at Paraparaumu.

About you

• Vocationally registered in Internal Medicine (Respiratory Medicine) with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)
• FRACP or equivalent qualification and be able to register for vocational registration with the MCNZ
• Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary team
• Able to demonstrate a high degree of clinical skill, particularly in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
• Sub-specialist training in Sleep Medicine is essential.

Working for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is 'the weaving of wellness'. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

How to apply

All applications must be submitted through our 'online careers'

We will review and interview applicants on an ongoing basis, recruitment process may closed early if the right candidate is found.

If you have any questions about the role, please email

Closing Date: Sunday, 2 November 2025

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