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Aaah, it's good to see that some things don't change wherever you are in the world. Rivalries between Melbourne and Sydney are just the same as the ones we have here between Edinburgh and Glasgow and on a smaller more local scale between Thurso and Wick. I have heard truly that Melbourne ROCKS with CAPITAL LETTERS and will be a major cultural shift having lived in a very small Scottish Highland village called Tongue for the last eight years. Even if HealthScope sucks I'm sure it will act as a springboard for other employment opportunities in the future. 48 days to go and counting before I hop on one of those Ginormous Airbus A380's and wing my way down to "Australias most liveable city". By the way it's -3 degrees C here at the moment.Regards.

Hi Sarah I'm flying out to Melbourne from the UK on 28/01/09 to start a job with a private healthcare company. I can't wait to get to Melbourne. Good luck with your new job. Simon

hi people just a wee follow up. firstly thank you for all the reponses and advice:yeah:. i think that there has been a resolution in that it would appear that there has been a bit of a breakdown in communication, confusion on gh's part, my part and healthscopes part and different people using different terminology to say the same thing. it appears that i am going to be paid on the 2.8 pr 2.9 rate.according to healthscope this is at a rate of $aud 29.6579 per hour which works out to $aud 1127 per week. this according to the figures i have is the rate of pay equivalent to nine years of working as a registered nurse. [color=#2f4f4f]grace oz you mention that "healthscope are at it again". that sounds ominous. [color=#2f4f4f]anyway i've accepted the job offer thinking that the most important thing is to get out to oz and any problems can be resolved once i get out there. [color=#2f4f4f]i'm flying out from the uk to melbourne on 28/01/09 to start my new life in australia and i can't wait. just so happens that i'll be out there to see the first race of 2009 of the world superbikes at phillip island,yippee:d

please help. i am a uk nurse who will be emigrating to melbourne on 28/01/09 having been offered a job in a healthscope facility. this job was sourced through recruitment agency geneva health.i have been working as a registered mental health nurse in the uk for about fourteen years now and have submitted evidence of employment, to confirm this, to geneva health. i am more than a little confused though. my understanding is that in australia you are paid depending on how long you have been working as a registered nurse, up to a maximum of nine years. that is the longer that you have been working as a registered nurse the more you get paid. also that australia recognises that working in the uk is equivalent to that of working in australia.so as far as i am aware i should be entitled to be paid as a level 1 grade 2 year 9 nurse. healthscope offered me a payscale of that equivalent to a level 1 grade 2 year 3 nurse. when i queried this with my agent at geneva health she told me to ignire this payscale, stating that employers tend to offer this rate until they receive proof of employment. my agent then told me that she would chase this up with healthscope and forward me an ammended payscale and job offer letter. my agent then emailed me the following day that healthscope stood by their original offer(year 3 equivalent) in a sort of take it or leave it offer. i then received another email from my agent and she wrote this (copied and pasted from the email)- "the grade in the level that you are entering on is grade 9 and this is the maximum grade in the level. so any years worked over 9 years will not come into consideration" ......." all nurses that we place always come in on the level that you have.(is that grade 3 or 9? my words) - after you have started work in your job there is of course then the potential to progress to a higher level and obviously then a higher salary!" now, to my mind this is a complete contradiction. what i would like to know (amongst numerous other things) si are payscales a legal entitlement or are they just guidelines that an employer can choose to ignore? i have already booked my flight to melbourne and could really do without this sort of confusion and uncertainty. please help me with this one because it is really doing my head in.

First of all...Hello people. I've just registered on this fantastic site and have been on it for about 1 1/2 hours(from about 04.30 hrs. Insomnia). I currently live/work in the UK as a community psychiatric nurse(substance misuse) and have recently secured a job with HealthScope at North Eastern Rehabilitation Centre in Melbourne. I am flying out on 28/01/09 and will start work early March. I'm looking for any info, help, whatever. For example can any body comment on HealthScope as an employer, where to live in Melbourne(I'll be working in an area called Ivanhoe) is the weather nice, things to look out for etc etc. I'm a little tired now and will post some more specific enquiries when my head is functioning a little better. Thanks in advance for any responses to this. Simon PS I can't wait to get out there