Radiographer Jobs in Australia: What to Know First

The Board says it and Ahpra can’t help you find a job or influence employment outcomes, and it recommends that you don’t apply for work or set up a practice until you are registered. You register in one or more of three divisions: diagnostic radiography, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine technology.

Licensing to use radiation is up to each state and territory’s radiation authority: the Board says most states and territories require a radiation use licence, so check with the authority where you will practise before you start work.

We don’t give migration advice, and we don’t name visa types or processing times: check with the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs. The Board doesn’t give migration advice either. Registration and a visa are separate applications. The Board says they are “entirely separate” and that success in one “does not automatically guarantee success in the other”. Skills assessments for migration are done by ASMIRT for diagnostic radiographers and radiation therapists, and by ANZSNM (the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine) for nuclear medicine technologists.

At least two years of clinical experience after you qualified, in medical imaging or radiation therapy. Clinical time inside your degree doesn’t count, and neither does an internship you had to complete for the degree to be conferred. ASMIRT also asks for at least two years in the last five and evidence of clinical experience within the last three years. If you apply short of two years, ASMIRT holds the application until you reach it; without it, you are “ineligible for a skills assessment letter”. ASMIRT and ANZSNM can take your work experience into account; the Board looks only at your formal qualifications when it decides whether you are qualified. The Board says this is why some people are approved for skilled migration but don’t meet its registration requirements.

Professional indemnity insurance: your arrangements must cover all aspects of your practice, and you declare that you won’t practise without them. Recency of practice: at least 450 hours of practice in the previous three years (about three months full-time), under the standard dated 1 December 2016. Falling short doesn’t necessarily stop a return to practice. Once registered: 60 hours of CPD over the current triennium (1 December 2024 to 30 November 2027), at least 10 hours in any one year, and at least 35 hours of substantive activities.