Moving to Australia from UK - Advice Needed Please

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Hey everyone, I am an adult nursing student in the UK and will graduate in September 2014 with a nursing degree. I want to work and live in Australia but I don't know where to begin! Can anyone provide any help or advice? Has an UK based nurse moved to Australia to live and work that could advise please?

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you ;)

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The only thing I can say for sure is this. You will need 2/3 years working experience first. Minimum. There is no nursing shortage for newly qualified nurses. It is shortages of specialist nurses.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Starting point would be meeting APHRA requirements and then look at immigration requirements

http://www.ahpra.gov.au/

http://www.immi.gov.au/Pages/Welcome.aspx

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The only thing I can say for sure is this. You will need 2/3 years working experience first. Minimum. There is no nursing shortage for newly qualified nurses. It is shortages of specialist nurses.

Does that mean I wouldn't be granted a visa to work and live in Australia unless I had my degree plus 2/3 years experience? Could I not be sponsored by an employer as a newly qualified RN? Or work for an agency? My partner, a passive fire protection engineer and young son would be moving with me.

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Starting point would be meeting APHRA requirements and then look at immigration requirements

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - Home

Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection

Thanks for the links! Where on the AHPRA website can I check entry requirements?

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Does that mean I wouldn't be granted a visa to work and live in Australia unless I had my degree plus 2/3 years experience? Could I not be sponsored by an employer as a newly qualified RN? Or work for an agency? My partner, a passive fire protection engineer and young son would be moving with me.

The issue would be APHRA and them issuing you a license. No license means you can not work as a nurse.

Thanks for the links! Where on the AHPRA website can I check entry requirements?

Look under the link for Nursing and Midwifery which is on the main page I have given you

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Does that mean I wouldn't be granted a visa to work and live in Australia unless I had my degree plus 2/3 years experience? Could I not be sponsored by an employer as a newly qualified RN? Or work for an agency? My partner, a passive fire protection engineer and young son would be moving with me.

Sponsorship visa's are only to be given out as required, if there are skilled workers in that area pr or citizens then sponsorship visa's are not supposed to be issued.

There are hundreds of new graduate nurses (uni year finsihes in November) with no work, therefore expecting sponsorship as a new graduate is a poor chance, with an agency, agencies usually do not take on nurses with no experience as their supply hospitals, nursing homes, expect experienced nurses that can fill anytime, anything and responsiblity is to the clients and patients.

You may find a nursing home or a hospital that may take you on bank nursing that requires an RN that can have much supervision until experienced but do not expect such positions to be everywhere at any time.

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