vicky mc Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 hi everyone i'm really needing some advise how and were do i start ? i'm a newly qualified nurse wanting to move me and my family over to oz hows the best way to start the process ? what do i do first ? how much money will we need to get started out there? which visa do i get ? and should i go to an agency to help ? ive got so many questions that i need answered before i get there and how do i convince my 15 year old daughter the its going to be a better life ? i no im asking alot but its a big thing and i want to get it right for the sake of my kids please help guys :arghh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasdyke Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 We have a friend who is a midwife and she registered with UnitedCare and she along with her family moved to Brisbane a few years ago. You can either look on Seek.com.au at avaiable jobs and do it that way or search nursing positions in Australia. You can get some companies who will sort out the visa process for you if you're what they want! With regards to your daughter the only way of her getting to like it is to go and experience it, maybe a holiday or look see where you're planning to move before the big step? Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky mc Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 ok thank you, i'll check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bazinga Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Look at the nurses thread on here. You'll need to get registered. I'd avoid qld due to the cuts but it depends on what you specialise in. As for the 15yr old, good luck! It's a different life, not always better. If you lower your expectations you'll appreciate it much more once you're here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kel87 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hi Vicky, I don't know much but months ago I knew nothing and started just like you, you'll get a lot of information from these sites im also a nurse but have 5years experience. There's different visas to choose from, do you want a 4 year temporary resident visa or want to go with a full permenant resident (PR) visa? There is 2 type of (PR) visa, the 189 which is independent and you can live anywhere in OZ or the 190 where you get a state to sponser you, it's state sponsorship and not work however from I have learned, each state has different requirements, like I'm sure western Australia you need 7years nursing experience to get state sponsorship but only 2years for south Australia. You need to meet the points required to gain either PR visa. if going on a temporary visa you can try get an employer to sponser you (not quite sure how that works as I'm doing the PR visa). As for costs, everyone is going to be different. As a guide il give ou what I'm budgeting. £4k for visa, ielts, skills assesment etc (6k if I use an agent, not decided yet) £3k for flights. £2k for our shipping, we aren't shipping a full container, around 3-4k if you are and that should be enough for a full 3bed house. £2.5k for 4 weeks holiday home rental for when we arrive.its expensive. We are budgeting 700dollars a week for that plus bond. We will then only have £15k left to get started in oz. that has to cover our unfurnished rental bond and first months rent a cheap car (cars in oz are much more expensive than here) and just to keep us going until I get my first wage. Im hoping to have a job before I arrive, if not then have everything crossed I get one quick! My husband won't work at first due to childcare so we will be living on an approx salary of 65-70k plus shift allowances I will get, I've done alot of research on that I feel we will get by OK with that to get us started, won't have the life of luxury but should do ok. we will be going to Adelaide so again cost of living depends on where u want to live and how u want to live. Hope that gives you an idea, to be honest I'm just starting myself and I'm no expert so may have some of that wrong! It's just from what information I've been gathering myself from these forums x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hi and welcome to PIO. Some comments in red. hi everyone i'm really needing some advise how and were do i start ? www.immi.gov.au have a read under "skill select" in particular. i'm a newly qualified nurse wanting to move me and my family over to oz hows the best way to start the process ? I think that you would need at least a years work experience first, I would look to get this. Graduate nursing positions in Australia can easily be filled with local applicants. If I have misunderstood and you have experience then the first things you need to do are take an IELTS (english) test and look into nurses skills assessment. I am sure one of the nurses on here can tell you more about that. what do i do first ? as above. how much money will we need to get started out there? It is a very indivudal thing. I totted up yeterday that we spent about GBP 20k getting over and getting set up. which visa do i get ? and should i go to an agency to help ? Visa possibilities are 189, 190 (skilled migrant visas) or the 457 (temporary employer sponsored visa, I never really recommend this one for families especially ones with teenagers. Agents are a personal choice, they can be very handy for some people. ive got so many questions that i need answered before i get there and how do i convince my 15 year old daughter the its going to be a better life ? Don't try to. It is just anotehr first world country, some people don't even like it here and not everyone things it is a better life. Maybe try to sell it as an adventure and an opportunity to see another part of the world. i no im asking alot but its a big thing and i want to get it right for the sake of my kids please help guys :arghh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky mc Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 thank you im just getting some post just now so let the research begin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hi Vicky, Good luck with the process - others have inidicated regarding visa's etc., do consider which state you want to live, some charge school fees for temporary residents whilst others don't. Being 15 your daughter might struggle with the idea, a lot of people will tell you that the life here isn't necessarily better ... but different and differnent can be a good thing or a very isolating one when you don't have anything that's familiar. Consider your daughters schooling. You also will need to become registered with AHPRA but first sort out which visa you want to go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky mc Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 thanks everyone a lot of good info i think im going to have to save a lot more money before i start the process. we have been speaking about this move for years and i just hope its worth it when we get there. im not looking for alot just some better weather so we can do thing outdoors, be a family and do things together, we moved 9 years ago from lancashire to rural scotland for a better life for the kids but its so boring i have to travel 40 mins each way for my work and its a very long winter some days i might not see day light for 4 days after doing 12 hours shifts. ive even bought a SAD light so for us its about showing our girls there is a big wide world out there and that life can be different. just hope we can make the move sooner rather than later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 thanks everyone a lot of good info i think im going to have to save a lot more money before i start the process. we have been speaking about this move for years and i just hope its worth it when we get there. im not looking for alot just some better weather so we can do thing outdoors, be a family and do things together, we moved 9 years ago from lancashire to rural scotland for a better life for the kids but its so boring i have to travel 40 mins each way for my work and its a very long winter some days i might not see day light for 4 days after doing 12 hours shifts. ive even bought a SAD light so for us its about showing our girls there is a big wide world out there and that life can be different. just hope we can make the move sooner rather than later Do you know there is one thing I really miss about UK and that is the light long evenings end spring / summer / early autumn. You don't get that here, even in the height of summer it is only light for say an hour / 90 minutes after I get home from work. So it doesn't go dark quite as quickly in winter, but that does not matter to me, because it is dark by the time I get home anyway. Oh how I miss those summer nights. :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky mc Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 how long you been out there Rupert ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GeorgeD Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Here in Brisbane in the middle of summer it gets dark at 6:45-7:00pm. In winter it can be dark around 5:15pm. In the summer it starts getting light at 4-5am. Most people are up early and out and about sharpish, then in bed for 9pm...take a drive down most streets at 9pm adn all teh lights are out as everyone is in bed! I miss the long summer nights in Scotland...I used to play 5 a sides and the floodlights weren't even on in the sumemr at 10pm :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky mc Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 yea but the weather is better than here your limited to what you can do here cos its so cold xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GeorgeD Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 yea but the weather is better than here your limited to what you can do here cos its so cold xx Yes it is much warmer here in general. I do remember playing 5 asides one night in my shorts and t-shirt and going back to my car to see the thermometer reading -11 Centigrade! I don't miss that so much about Scotland NSW use Daylight savings so right now it gets dark about 7:45pm there, but 6:45 in QLD...so if you want longer light in the evening, it may be a slightly better choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bazinga Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Yes, but currently high 30s means you stay inside if you can if you're not used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 yea but the weather is better than here your limited to what you can do here cos its so cold xx I have been here for 2.5 years. I think overall, yes I like the weather here better, somebody recently started a thread asking "would you stil have moved if Australia had the same weather as UK" and when I thought about it the answer was no I would not, so that proves there is something in the weather. Although I would never have thought it if the question was asked another way. Hot weather can be very restrictive too, just in another way. But honestly, I do miss light evenings, that is nothing to do with weather, that is just to do with light. It does not stay light much after 7.30pm here ever and I miss long summer evenings, sitting out until 9.30 or ten o'clock. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Here is WA, summer weather can be as debilitating as the cold in Scotland. Maybe more so. We have just finished a week in the mid 30's and most people hate it as it's too hot tongo anywhere and the risk of being burnt by the sun is so high. A major problem here and you have to remember a huge number of Australians develop skin cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled Pink Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 yea but the weather is better than here your limited to what you can do here cos its so cold xx But here you can be limited because it is so hot and humid. Different sides of the same coin.... 'and how do i convince my 15 year old daughter the its going to be a better life ?' I always give out a sigh when I see this all too common phrase..... I don't understand what the 'better life' is that people are searching for. It isn't some amazing eutopia, there are good and bad sides, as there is also in the UK. You only have to read the moving back to the uk section to see that there are some very unhappy people here, and some of those have only been here for a very short time, and came with similar aspirations as you... As has already been mentioned, the perception of the weather can be highly over rated, and skin cancer is indeed rife here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest26012 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 hi everyone i'm really needing some advise how and were do i start ? i'm a newly qualified nurse wanting to move me and my family over to oz hows the best way to start the process ? what do i do first ? how much money will we need to get started out there? which visa do i get ? and should i go to an agency to help ? ive got so many questions that i need answered before i get there and how do i convince my 15 year old daughter the its going to be a better life ? i no im asking alot but its a big thing and i want to get it right for the sake of my kids please help guys :arghh: Hi, as rupert has highlighted for you, if you are a newly qualified nurse then a grad programme would be an option. But as already has been said, these grad places are going to the grads here in wa at the moment, at our hospital they are. If you are going to have to save to get here then get as much hospital experience as you can. If you can work in acute areas then this will benefit you greatly to prepare you for nursing here. It might be worth your while contacting hospitals directly just to put the feelers out. Always go for a permanent visa rather than the 457 if possible. A registered migration agent will be a good start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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