Testimonials

Working on the Northern Beaches

I was recommended to HealthStaff Recruitment by a friend who had used their services and had an amazing year travelling Australia working as a midwife. Coming out and working in Australia is something my husband and I had been thinking about doing for years and her experiences and stories made us think more seriously about it. I contacted HealthStaff Recruitment and the ball was suddenly rolling!

Brooke was fantastic and helped me with all my silly questions right from the word go. She was very approachable and always replied to my silly questions and queries and when she wasn’t able to someone else replied on her behalf really quickly! It makes a massive difference that you have someone to talk to available in UK business time.

We came over on working holiday visas to give us the freedom of investigating areas to live and work without being tied down to one employer. Even getting a working holiday visa, which is a by far the quickest visa option, it still took 4 months as I was coming over working as a midwife. My husbands came through in 24 hours! The Registration process was without doubt the most tedious hard part of the whole process and I would advise anyone thinking of coming to NSW apply for it asap as it takes a lot longer than you would imagine, and bring all your original documents out with you as they need these when you collect your certificate! I learnt that the hard way! And your police clearance. Mine took forever and at one time almost cost me job I had been agreed!

Once we got here HealthStaff Recruitment were fantastic and searched for possible jobs for me, arranged interviews and were a constant support throughout. After being offered one job, which I couldn’t accept due to an accommodation, they were straight back on the job search and Jonelle found me a job much closer to where we could live. I am now working as a midwife in a great unit in Mona Vale, on the northern beaches above Sydney. It is a great maternity unit with fabulous services, friendly staff and amazing views of the beach! All much more laid back than the unit I was in previously! We have a great apartment on the beach in Manly and have completely fallen in love with the place. So much so we are now looking at long term visas and HealthStaff Recruitment are helping us out still!

I would recommend HealthStaff Recruitment to anybody thinking of coming down here to work. They are very individual in that it feels they are really working for what is best for your individual scenario. The help and support they provide is priceless and has made a very big and scary move a lot easier and calmer!


Rebecca Crumpler, RM

Nursing in Sydney

I contacted Healthstaff Recruitment last year in an attempt to start an extended overseas "Working Holiday". I had contacted other nursing agencies and at the time felt as though I was 'just another number for the books'- this was definitely not the case with Healthstaff Recruitment! I felt welcomed and my enquiries were and have never been too much trouble.

The staff at Heathstaff Recruitment were only too happy to help me and soon arranged for an interview for me for my current position here in Sydney. Health staff recruitment helped me with all the information for the necessary arrangements for regisration, travel, pick up and transport to my accommodation, they also organised my accommodation for the duration of my present contract.

I have been contacted by Healthstaff Recruitment on a regular basis to see if I am still happy with my employment position etc. I am still in contact with them regarding pending future positions.

The actual people that I have met that work for Healthstaff Recruitment, i.e. on transfer from the airport and at the 'drinks and nibbles'evening this year have been just the nicest folk.

Thank you Healthstaff Recruitment

Michele Fortune, RN

Finding Work in Australia

My first point of contact with HealthStaff was via the Internet. I had been turned down for a visa by the DIMIA as I was over 45 and considered past it by the Australian Government for a work Visa in my own right. Through HealthStaff I have found sponsorship by NSW Health for up to 4 years on a Business Visa, who have employed me as an RN in ICU at Gosford Hospital.

I had already been granted my RN Registration in NSW as I had applied for this whilst pursuing my own Visa application and would recommend anyone wishing to come to Australia to nurse to do this, as this is often the area, which takes most time.

The process from applying via HealthStaff for employment was very quick and efficient.

From my arranged interview in London in Jan. 2005 where I was offered a post in ICU Gosford or Broken Hill (I choose Gosford as I preferred to be nearer the coast), we (my wife travelling with me, and dog already here in quarantine) arrived in Sydney on 29 Apr. 2005 staring work on 16 May 2005.

On arrival at Sydney International airport we were met at 6 o clock in the morning by one of HealthStaff Recruitment's meet and greet consultants, dropped at Central Station with our entire luggage and then collected at Gosford Station by Kate who is the liaison Nurse for the new arrivals. Kate then drove us to our accommodation in nearby Lisarow (The Bellbird Bed and breakfast, which I had found on the Internet, with incredibly welcoming hosts in Graham and Susan. Having made sure we were settled in, she left us to sleep off our jetlag having given us her number in case of any difficulties and to meet up later in the week for a tour of the hospital. A few days later Kate showed us around the hospital where I got to meet my new colleagues and see the area in which I was going to be working. The staff were and still are very welcoming, the unit is large surrounded by windows overlooking Gosford, a very pleasant outlook having been used to looking only at walls with high windows in my last unit.

The area around Gosford is varied in its choice of environment with vast areas of Bushland with National parks in one direction, a large choice of beaches in another and the city of Sydney only 1.5 hours away by train. We are spoiled for choice.

This may not be everyone's idea of paradise but you can see it from here.

Having been here for over 3 months now, we have no regrets in our choice in coming to Australia or deciding to settle in the Central Coast NSW.

Eric Reilly, RN

Working in Western Australia

Greetings from Laverton, Western Australia. After a year of searching and the incredible patience of my placement specialist, Joey Cooney, I found the job I was looking for. It was only a month ago that I boarded a plane in America and headed "down under". I could tell from the start that this new adventure of mine would not only be professionally challenging but a great learning experience. So far, it has been everything I was hoping for and more. Meeting Ruby and giving her a bottle was an unexpected surprise and has been a real highlight for me. All I could think about was my four year old niece back in America. When anyone asks her where her Auntie Ronda is living, she replies "She's living with the kangaroos!"

Ruby was taken in by one of Laverton Hospital's nurses after being chucked from her mother's pouch while chased by a dog. At the time she was hairless and no bigger than a handful. Chris, Ruby's surrogate mother, bottle fed her every two hours and carried her everywhere in a homemade pouch. She is now 8-9 months old, is very affectionate quite spoiled! Ruby will never be able to fend for herself and survive in the wild. At some point we will have to find an animal refuge that will take her in. Full grown she will fill a doorway!

Ronda Klotz, RN, Laverton Hospital, Western Australia