If you are one of those nurses in the Philippines who are planning to seek a nursing job in Australia, this is somewhat a bad news. You need to wait for at least two years before your application to be approved.

Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Rod Smith recently visited Cebu City and explained why such thing is happening. He stated that this is all due to a consolidation movement of Australia’s public healthcare sector. “From now until 2013 there will be no significant demand for nurses outside of Australia,” he said. He also stated that at present, there are at least 250,000 Filipinos working and living in their country and majority of them are working as nurses and other professions of the medical field.

Do you want to work in Australia as a nurse? Job opportunities for nurses from the Philippines in Australia are available through various employment agencies locally and abroad.

There are now lots of vacant positions for healthcare professionals to work in Australia. And if you want this job opportunity to work abroad, or even to migrate to Australia, then it’s easy.

Here are more nursing job agencies in Australia. You can find the last batch of Australian nursing job agencies here.

Bell Health
Nursing agency based in Australia.

Belmore Nurses Bureau
Nursing agency that provides nurses and nursing aides with agency shifts in public and private hospitals across all of Melbourne and regional Victoria.

Here is a short list of some nursing agencies that could help you find a nursing job in Australia and adjacent countries such as New Zealand. Another one can also provide nursing jobs in Canada.

Access Nursing
This is an Australian nursing agency.

Acclaim Recruitment
They are a specialist nursing employment agency recruiting staff for Australia.