SCARED AND wORRIED RMN :(

[lauracoldwell]

Hello everyone, I am hoping that someone on here could maybe offer me some advice. I am a qualified RMN with twelve months experience in forensic/acute inpatients. I am coming to Adelaide on a SS perm residency visa in the near future BUT I am reluctant book a flight until I have secured a position in Adelaide due to minnimal funds we are taking over however it is proving almost impossible to find work. I have registered with AHPRA and I am ready to go..........I am a very proactive person and before deciding to go SS to Adelaide I secured positions in Sydney and in Darwin (before the changes e were going to go skilled independent)I have been applying for various positions in Adelaide and I have applied for two positions I found on the SA health website which I never even got an interview with. Since then I have registered with Geneva Health and I have been in touch with sugarman agency, both of which I have had a worrying response from. They have advised me that RMN position in adelaide are few and far between and that adelaide is one of the worst places to look for RMN positions??I have had ONE positiveish response from a nursing agency who simply sent me and email saying to call her on our arrival in Adelaide and that she would find me work.....well seen as though there are two of us going with just 8k I am pretty sure I need a contract in place to begin pretty much straight away. I was hoping that people would be kind enough to share their experiences with me of finding work as a RMN in adelaide or better still some names of agencies/units that they have had better luck with as I am really worried

Thank you Laura xxx :cute:

[Benoli]

have you been on the SA Health website?? SA Health are the equivalent of our NHS. There was a big drive for mental health nurses in Adelaide in the last year or so as they are expanding and amalgamating all their mental health services. I'm surprised due to the amount of mental health nurses they said they will need in the next couple of years that you have difficulty. I'm an RMN too and heading to Adelaide in the next 6 months :

 

http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/work+with+us/mental+health

[lauracoldwell]

have you been on the SA Health website?? SA Health are the equivalent of our NHS. There was a big drive for mental health nurses in Adelaide in the last year or so as they are expanding and amalgamating all their mental health services. I'm surprised due to the amount of mental health nurses they said they will need in the next couple of years that you have difficulty. I'm an RMN too and heading to Adelaide in the next 6 months :

 

http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/work+with+us/mental+health

 

Hey Benoli,

 

I found two positions which i applied for and got told that they wouldnt be taking my application further...

 

Have you had any luck?

 

cheers, laura x

[Delaneym]

have you tried revamping your cv aussie style? sorry if you have already done this and im not being useful at all!

[lauracoldwell]

have you tried revamping your cv aussie style? sorry if you have already done this and im not being useful at all!

 

Hey Delaneym,

 

Thanks for your response any comments or suggestions are definitely useful to me.

 

I have revamped it to AHPRAS guidelines and it looks much better than it did. The thing that I am confused about is that I managed to get a couple of positions previously and both commented on the quality of my application. Its just really gutting to have everything in place but that the one thing thats the most important (bar the visa obviously) is so hard to find xx

[Delaneym]

Hey Delaneym,

 

Thanks for your response any comments or suggestions are definitely useful to me.

 

I have revamped it to AHPRAS guidelines and it looks much better than it did. The thing that I am confused about is that I managed to get a couple of positions previously and both commented on the quality of my application. Its just really gutting to have everything in place but that the one thing thats the most important (bar the visa obviously) is so hard to find xx

if you pm me i will give you my work e-mail and send you the style cv they like over there. I am a senior nurse here so even I had to change mine about to suit their requirements! when I applied in SA i was offered a job ( I have one in NSW and i had to work hard at the application criteria)and it maybe that you are not selling yourself well in their language. If I can be any help just pm me x

[Benoli]

Hey Benoli,

 

I found two positions which i applied for and got told that they wouldnt be taking my application further...

 

Have you had any luck?

 

cheers, laura x

 

I was offered a position last year but for a number of reasons, we decided to hold off til this year so had to give up the offer.........currently waiting for our 176 visa to be confirmed then I'll send off for my registration. Once that's done I'll start job hunting again. Will probably go down the route of emailing all the hospital managers like I did the last time and go from there x

[lauracoldwell]

Aww good stuff. If you need any help with your AHPRA just let me know, I managed to get it back in less than 3 weeks

 

I have tried finding email addresses for managers as thats how I got my job in Darwin and Sydney but its proving difficult. How did you get hold of their email addresses? x

[Benoli]

oh I will defo be needing help with the registration forms, they're a nightmare!

 

think I just pestered hospitals lol I just searched the net for hospitals with mental health departments then emailed their HR depts and asked for the addresses of anyone involved or responsible for recruiting mental health nurses. Also sent emails to ward charge nurses. A bit different this time round as I believe the services in Adelaide are now all under the same umbrella.....any info I gain along the way I'll pass on to you feel free to pm me your email or even a facebook address to keep in touch!

[lauracoldwell]

oh I will defo be needing help with the registration forms, they're a nightmare!

 

think I just pestered hospitals lol I just searched the net for hospitals with mental health departments then emailed their HR depts and asked for the addresses of anyone involved or responsible for recruiting mental health nurses. Also sent emails to ward charge nurses. A bit different this time round as I believe the services in Adelaide are now all under the same umbrella.....any info I gain along the way I'll pass on to you feel free to pm me your email or even a facebook address to keep in touch!

 

Of course, no worries, they are a TOTAL nightmare...

Ha ha harrassment always works ill have a look tomorrow for some email addresses and same goes for me passing on info got to help the fellow RMNs out.

where in the UK are from?

[Benoli]

just got you on facebook x

[Guest trasi]

Hi Laura

Cant help you with RMN positions as im a RGN, but justed wanted to send you a :hug:

 

Everything will work out.

 

Good luck xx

[lauracoldwell]

Hi Laura

Cant help you with RMN positions as im a RGN, but justed wanted to send you a :hug:

 

Everything will work out.

 

Good luck xx

 

Ahhh thank you so much xx

[gordonsmith]

Hello everyone, I am hoping that someone on here could maybe offer me some advice. I am a qualified RMN with twelve months experience in forensic/acute inpatients. I am coming to Adelaide on a SS perm residency visa in the near future BUT I am reluctant book a flight until I have secured a position in Adelaide due to minnimal funds we are taking over however it is proving almost impossible to find work. I have registered with AHPRA and I am ready to go..........I am a very proactive person and before deciding to go SS to Adelaide I secured positions in Sydney and in Darwin (before the changes e were going to go skilled independent)I have been applying for various positions in Adelaide and I have applied for two positions I found on the SA health website which I never even got an interview with. Since then I have registered with Geneva Health and I have been in touch with sugarman agency, both of which I have had a worrying response from. They have advised me that RMN position in adelaide are few and far between and that adelaide is one of the worst places to look for RMN positions??I have had ONE positiveish response from a nursing agency who simply sent me and email saying to call her on our arrival in Adelaide and that she would find me work.....well seen as though there are two of us going with just 8k I am pretty sure I need a contract in place to begin pretty much straight away. I was hoping that people would be kind enough to share their experiences with me of finding work as a RMN in adelaide or better still some names of agencies/units that they have had better luck with as I am really worried

Thank you Laura xxx :cute:

 

 

 

hi laura

 

i am also an RMN working in forensic care in scotland, i also have my AHPRA reg in and i am waiting on a sponsored job offer. thus far i have been advised by my agency to try in land. places like alice springs and several mining villages in NSW. i dont want that for my family so im just going to keep plodding away looking for positions i would like in areas that my family could settle in. it aint easy, i just want to go but theres a challenge at every corner it will be worth it tho.

keep in touch

gordon

[lauracoldwell]

hi laura

 

i am also an RMN working in forensic care in scotland, i also have my AHPRA reg in and i am waiting on a sponsored job offer. thus far i have been advised by my agency to try in land. places like alice springs and several mining villages in NSW. i dont want that for my family so im just going to keep plodding away looking for positions i would like in areas that my family could settle in. it aint easy, i just want to go but theres a challenge at every corner it will be worth it tho.

keep in touch

gordon

 

Hey Gordon,

 

Glad to hear you got your AHPRA as if i recall, you had been having a nightmare trying to get the bloody thing? I had been offered a job in alice springs and near Mt Gambier but like you, it is just not for us. I have friends in Adelaide and a place to stay on our arrival and i think that hen you are making such a big move its important not to isolate yourself and i'd certainly feel Isolated in alice springs or Mt Gambier. xx

[blobby1000]

Hi,

 

I am also an RMN and I work in Melbourne. I will share my experience with you!

 

We came out on a 457 but once we got residency IO started looking for work elsewhere. I now have 4 years acute experience in the UK and here and good references but nobody even replied to my applications. I even got turned down for a job in a little rehab place, I didnt even get given an interview for that one in spite of having far more expereience than needed.

 

Back in November 2011 I applied to join the bank of a hospital that I know is desperate for nurses because I know people that work there. They have agency staff in charge of the ward at times! They did not reply. I then applied again in March....in June they invited me for an interview! It was for a bank job...they interviewd me for an hour! Then they spent 6 weeks trying to get references for me (in spite of the fact I had provided references with my CV!).

I am now waiting for contracts and sometime this year I might do a shift.....and this is at a place that are depserate for staff!!

 

I dont know anything about Adelaide (except its a lovely place) I appled to work there but changed my mind and we came to Melbourne.

 

I can only comment on my own experience but Mental Health Nursing here takes some getting used to.

 

You may come straight over and get a job but that had not been my experience in Victoria, the jobs are there, but the disorganisation is so incredibale that it takes months to get started.

[lauracoldwell]

Hi,

 

I am also an RMN and I work in Melbourne. I will share my experience with you!

 

We came out on a 457 but once we got residency IO started looking for work elsewhere. I now have 4 years acute experience in the UK and here and good references but nobody even replied to my applications. I even got turned down for a job in a little rehab place, I didnt even get given an interview for that one in spite of having far more expereience than needed.

 

Back in November 2011 I applied to join the bank of a hospital that I know is desperate for nurses because I know people that work there. They have agency staff in charge of the ward at times! They did not reply. I then applied again in March....in June they invited me for an interview! It was for a bank job...they interviewd me for an hour! Then they spent 6 weeks trying to get references for me (in spite of the fact I had provided references with my CV!).

I am now waiting for contracts and sometime this year I might do a shift.....and this is at a place that are depserate for staff!!

 

I dont know anything about Adelaide (except its a lovely place) I appled to work there but changed my mind and we came to Melbourne.

 

I can only comment on my own experience but Mental Health Nursing here takes some getting used to.

 

You may come straight over and get a job but that had not been my experience in Victoria, the jobs are there, but the disorganisation is so incredibale that it takes months to get started.

 

Thanks blobby1000,

This is my fear as I no that in the UK it can take 3-4 months to start a job after receiving an offer letter. Stories like this one (and i have heard many similar to this) confirm that I need to have a job in place before I come out especially hen you take into account, my minnimal experience. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me xx

[gordonsmith]

Hey Gordon,

 

Glad to hear you got your AHPRA as if i recall, you had been having a nightmare trying to get the bloody thing? I had been offered a job in alice springs and near Mt Gambier but like you, it is just not for us. I have friends in Adelaide and a place to stay on our arrival and i think that hen you are making such a big move its important not to isolate yourself and i'd certainly feel Isolated in alice springs or Mt Gambier. xx

 

i agree. we all have our australian dream and cooked up 100s of miles from the sea isnt mine. no point in taking the family all the way over there for it to fail because its not what we want.

[Guest trasi]

Hi,

 

I am also an RMN and I work in Melbourne. I will share my experience with you!

 

We came out on a 457 but once we got residency IO started looking for work elsewhere. I now have 4 years acute experience in the UK and here and good references but nobody even replied to my applications. I even got turned down for a job in a little rehab place, I didnt even get given an interview for that one in spite of having far more expereience than needed.

 

Back in November 2011 I applied to join the bank of a hospital that I know is desperate for nurses because I know people that work there. They have agency staff in charge of the ward at times! They did not reply. I then applied again in March....in June they invited me for an interview! It was for a bank job...they interviewd me for an hour! Then they spent 6 weeks trying to get references for me (in spite of the fact I had provided references with my CV!).

I am now waiting for contracts and sometime this year I might do a shift.....and this is at a place that are depserate for staff!!

 

I dont know anything about Adelaide (except its a lovely place) I appled to work there but changed my mind and we came to Melbourne.

 

I can only comment on my own experience but Mental Health Nursing here takes some getting used to.

 

You may come straight over and get a job but that had not been my experience in Victoria, the jobs are there, but the disorganisation is so incredibale that it takes months to get started.

 

 

My friend was senior nurse in acute (RMN). She has now been in perth for nearly 7 years. It has taken her 7 years to get back to the grade she left the UK on. She says it has been a nightmare, but she persisted. As blobby stated she went round and round in circles and she also says that the mental health nursing takes alot of gettin use to out there...... but i can only pass on what she has said.

She was very depressed for a while regarding the whole situation, but is only now adapting (and finally getting back to her original grade after 7 years has helped).

 

good luck xx

[blobby1000]

I can see some similarities between your situation Laura and ours, only in reverse.

 

We have become fed up with Australia after 2 years and are heading home, but not to where we came from (Gloucestershire) where I could proabably walk back into my old job but to Cornwall where we have no house and no job and no friends yet! My point is that sometimes you have to take a risk to get the rewards and I would never discourage anyone from coming here at all, if it does not work out its easy enough to go home: you will have probably spent a lot of money but thats the only real downside, its a great experience to have, we feel confident in the fact we really want to live in the UK and that never something we realised until we left. We will continue looking for our dream and Im a firm believer you can make anything work if you want it enough. I have got fed up with my 3 hour total daily commute, but have just been offered a full time job 40 mins away (which seemed impossible a month ago). We have made up our minds now but the work is there if you are patient and committed to finding it, I am sure.

 

Just one extra piece of advice about Mental Health nursing here. I cannot really generalise from working where I have but I am led to believe the rest of Australia is similar or worse (from people on here and people I have met). I came out after having 2 years experience on a great ward in the UK where I would say I was a good nurse but there were always better nurses around, with more expertise and experience (there were worse nurses than me as well) but there were always people around to ask things and to learn from.

 

The moment I stepped on to the ward here I was clearly one of the most competent nurses. Certainly the best nurse not in management. This may sound like a boast, but it is not at all. Its an indication of the por standards they have here and if you walk around like you know what you are doing before you know where you are (4 weeks in my case) you will be asked to be in charge of the bloody place! And its right that you are in a way because all the other nurses are rubbish! But I was never ready for that sort of challenge yet. Its easy to get grandiose and think "Im making it in Australia, look Im a charge nurse already!" but their desperation to promote is more about their lack of options. There is not one person to look up to, nobody has taught me a single thing in 2 years, I have had not one minute of supervision.....and remember its really hard to run a successful shift when most of the nurses are crap!

 

Having said all that, when Im not in charge of the ward (its decided on a shift by shift basis) its the easiest, least stressful money I have ever made in my life!

[blobby1000]

My friend was senior nurse in acute (RMN). She has now been in perth for nearly 7 years. It has taken her 7 years to get back to the grade she left the UK on. She says it has been a nightmare, but she persisted. As blobby stated she went round and round in circles and she also says that the mental health nursing takes alot of gettin use to out there...... but i can only pass on what she has said.

She was very depressed for a while regarding the whole situation, but is only now adapting (and finally getting back to her original grade after 7 years has helped).

 

 

I can relate to this.....It can be a depressing experience as a newly qualified nurse too with the pressure they put on you to take charge and do things beyond your competency!

good luck