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CrossNation is a healthcare recruitment agency for Australian employers that recruits nurses, allied health professionals, radiologists and aged care staff from candidates based in Australia and from overseas, in every state and territory. If you are comparing healthcare recruitment agencies, the section on how to choose one lists five checks you can make yourself. Our fee is 12% for roles under $50k, 15% for $50k–$90k, 18% above $90k, 20% executive, charged on first-year remuneration (salary plus super), plus GST, and only when a placement succeeds, with a 90-day replacement guarantee (replacement, not refund), subject to our agreement.
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12% for roles under $50k, 15% for $50k–$90k, 18% above $90k, 20% executive.
Fees are charged on first-year remuneration (salary plus super), plus GST. Charged only when a placement succeeds. No placement, no fee.
Christmas offer: sign our agreement by 11:59pm AEDT, Friday 27 November 2026 and pay 12% on every role. See offer terms.
90-day replacement guarantee (replacement, not refund), subject to our agreement
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For hospitals, clinics, aged care providers, disability and community services, and imaging practices that need nurses, allied health professionals, radiologists or aged care staff.
Structured steps from brief to onboarding support.
Compliance and fit checks before employer time is spent.
Jobs open on CrossNation now. Listings are not job offers.
Brief: you tell us the role, setting, location, start date and whether you want onshore, overseas or either.
Search: we look at candidates based in Australia first when the start date is soon, then at overseas candidates for roles you can plan ahead for.
Screen: we talk through each candidate's experience against your brief and record their registration status, which you can verify on the public register for their profession.
Interview: you meet the shortlist and choose who to offer.
Offer and start: we coordinate the offer; overseas candidates need registration and any visa steps completed before they start.
Registration with the relevant National Board through Ahpra for nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and podiatrists.
Specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia for radiologists.
Professional association membership where a profession is not registered by Ahpra, for example speech pathology and dietetics.
Work rights for onshore candidates, shown by the candidate's VEVO result.
A healthcare recruitment agency finds and shortlists candidates for your open clinical and care roles, so your team interviews rather than searches. At CrossNation that means permanent and contract recruitment: we take your brief, search candidates based in Australia and overseas, record each candidate's registration status so you can check it on the public register for their profession, and coordinate the offer.
Healthcare is a group of different markets, each with its own registration and award. Use the page for the role you need: nursing, allied health, aged care or radiology. Each explains how registration works, what the award sets and how to brief us.
Healthcare roles sit under different awards, so there is no single healthcare rate. The figures below were re-read on the Fair Work award pages on 27 October 2026. These are award minimums for full-time employees, the same in every state. An enterprise agreement can apply instead of the award, and employers can pay more. Superannuation is paid on top at 12%. Check the Fair Work pay guide in force on the start date before you set a salary.
Hiring demand in this industry group: 54.3 thousand vacancies were advertised in August 2026, and 55.3 thousand a year earlier. Across the six quarters to August 2026 the count ranged between 54.3 thousand (Aug 2026) and 59.6 thousand (Nov 2025), so expect competition for staff to move with the season.
Source: ABS: Job Vacancies, Australia, August 2026 (job vacancies by industry, original series) (retrieved 4 October 2026)
These checks work for any agency. Each one is something you can ask for or verify before you send a brief.
Ask for the percentage, what it is charged on and the event that makes the fee payable, in writing, before you send a brief.
CrossNation: CrossNation's fee is 12% for roles under $50k, 15% for $50k–$90k, 18% above $90k, 20% executive, charged on first-year remuneration (salary plus super), plus GST, and only when a placement succeeds.
Ask for the guarantee period and how it applies in the agreement you sign, not only on the agency's website.
CrossNation: CrossNation placements carry a 90-day replacement guarantee (replacement, not refund), subject to our agreement. See our terms.
Ask what the agency checks before it shortlists a candidate, and what record it keeps, such as qualifications, registration or licence status and work rights, so you can verify each one yourself.
CrossNation: CrossNation records each candidate's qualifications, registration or licence status and work rights so employers can verify them.
If you are considering an overseas hire, ask who gives visa advice. Only a registered migration agent can give migration advice, and the register of migration agents is public (https://www.mara.gov.au/). This is general information, not migration advice. Speak to a registered migration agent.
CrossNation: CrossNation is a recruitment agency, not a registered migration agent. The employer holds or obtains its own approval.
Ask for referee details for a candidate you are shortlisting, call the referees yourself, and ask the agency how it checks references and what it passes on to you.
For nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, podiatrists and radiologists, ask for the Ahpra registration details and check them on the public register for the profession. Speech pathology, dietetics and social work are not registered by Ahpra, so ask which association credential applies.
CrossNation: CrossNation records each candidate's registration status, which you can verify on the public register for their profession.
Ask which award or agreement the agency expects to apply. Nurses, allied health professionals, aged care workers and doctors are covered by different instruments, and some doctors' pay is set by contract.
CrossNation: CrossNation prints the award name and minimum rates for nurses, allied health and aged care roles, and publishes no pay figure for radiologists.
Ask any healthcare recruitment agency for five things: the fee basis in writing, the guarantee terms in writing, how candidates are screened and what registration or credential records it keeps so you can verify each one, who gives visa advice if you are considering an overseas hire, and referees you can call yourself. CrossNation's fee is 12% for roles under $50k, 15% for $50k–$90k, 18% above $90k, 20% executive, charged on first-year remuneration (salary plus super), plus GST, and only when a placement succeeds, with a 90-day replacement guarantee (replacement, not refund), subject to our agreement. CrossNation is a recruitment agency, not a registered migration agent. This is general information, not migration advice. Speak to a registered migration agent.
Registered and enrolled nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, speech pathologists, dietitians, social workers, radiologists, and aged care staff.
Yes. We recruit candidates who already live in Australia and have work rights, as well as overseas candidates. Tell us which pool you prefer in the enquiry form.
CrossNation's fee for healthcare recruitment is 12% for roles under $50k, 15% for $50k–$90k, 18% above $90k, 20% executive, charged on first-year remuneration (salary plus super), plus GST, and only when a placement succeeds. If no placement is made, there is no fee. Placements carry a 90-day replacement guarantee (replacement, not refund), subject to our agreement. Wages, superannuation and other employment costs stay with the employer.
It depends on the candidate and on bodies CrossNation does not control, such as registration boards, licensing regulators and the Department of Home Affairs, so CrossNation does not give a timeline. Many employers ask for both onshore and overseas candidates so an urgent vacancy is not held up.
The Department of Home Affairs says a standard business sponsor has obligations to meet while it sponsors someone. They include telling the department in writing when certain events occur, such as the sponsored person ceasing employment or a change in their duties, making sure the person works only in the occupation nominated, giving terms and conditions of employment that are not less favourable than those of an equivalent Australian worker, keeping records, and cooperating with inspectors. The sponsor must also pay the costs of the recruitment process itself, including recruitment agent fees, and must not charge them to the sponsored worker. A sponsor that does not meet its obligations can face sanctions. The employer is the sponsor. CrossNation is a recruitment agency, does not sponsor and cannot promise a visa or an approval. This is general information, not migration advice. Speak to a registered migration agent.
Placements carry a 90-day replacement guarantee (replacement, not refund), subject to our agreement. How it applies is set out in the agreement between CrossNation and the employer, so ask for the guarantee terms in writing before you sign. See our terms at https://crossnation.com.au/terms. The guarantee is not a promise of any offer, visa or migration outcome.
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Our fee is 12% for roles under $50k, 15% for $50k–$90k, 18% above $90k, 20% executive, charged on first-year remuneration (salary plus super), plus GST, with a 90-day replacement guarantee (replacement, not refund), subject to our agreement.
