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.
Oh ... don't believe Talaxandra about Melbourne being the most liveable city!!! She's as biased as all heck and wears blinkers!! LOL
You'll come to learn how we Aussie's take the "mickey" out of each other in relation to cities, states, football teams etc etc. :)
While we may take the mick, I can say with a wholly straight face that Melbourne rocks and people everywhere else are just trying valiantly to overcome their distress at living somewhere second rate that's not Melbourne
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while we may take the mick, i can say with a wholly straight face that melbourne rocks and people everywhere else are just trying valiantly to overcome their distress at living somewhere second rate that's not melbourne
hogwash!!!!! what a load of cobblers!! it rocks alright, like a rickety ol boat on that stinkin' murky yarra river!! :chuckle:chuckle:d:clown:
ps c'arn the crows! bugger the crows! i don't barrack for them! :chuckle
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.
22 degrees C here at the moment, but we are working our way up for Christmas. You will need your winter woolies for when it gets really cold and you find your way to the snow fields.
Grace, we have snowfields down here! What have you got, beach, heat, humidity .... :wink2:
5kilocat, I think you're going to fit in just fine :)
And jealous-that-she-lives-elsewhere-Grace: the Yarra might be a rich, chocolatey brown, on which the famous Willy Wonka's river was based, but it most definitely does not stink! How very dare you! Now if we're talking stinky, may I direct you to a certain bank vault... :)
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5kilocat, i think you're going to fit in just fine :)
and jealous-that-she-lives-elsewhere-grace: the yarra might be a rich, chocolatey brown, on which the famous willy wonka's river was based, but it most definitely does not stink! how very dare you! now if we're talking stinky, may i direct you to a certain bank vault... :)
yeah, but ..... at least we don't/did not sail on/in that vault!!!! :chuckle
Specializes in Med/Surg/Ortho/HH/Radiology-Now Retired.
22 degrees C here at the moment, but we are working our way up for Christmas. You will need your winter woolies for when it gets really cold and you find your way to the snow fields.
Grace, we have snowfields down here! What have you got, beach, heat, humidity .... :wink2:
Oh OK! so now you're joining yer mate in the interstate rivalry too, eh??!! :chuckle
Even if HealthScope sucks I'm sure it will act as a springboard for other employment opportunities in the future.
Good luck on your move from another ex-pat import into Melbourne :) I work for a Healthscope hospital in Melbourne and while the shift to a profit-driven healthcare company took a little while to get used to, I love where I work and most importantly I LOVE the people I work with. While I could probably chose to switch to the public sector next year if I wanted, I think I'll stay put purely based on the amazing people I've come into contact with so far in Australia. Just thought I would give you the view from another side of the "Healthscope spectrum" haha.
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. 
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While we may take the mick, I can say with a wholly straight face that Melbourne rocks and people everywhere else are just trying valiantly to overcome their distress at living somewhere second rate that's not Melbourne
PS C'arn the Crows!