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.

However, the Ambassador didn’t mention in his statement if the current employment of the Filipino nurses in Australia would be affected. Moreover, he stressed out that that the employment demand for accountants, engineers, IT (Information Technology) experts in Australia will continue to grow over the next few years.

This decrease in the demand of nurses was also noted by Philippine Nursing Association president Leah Samaco-Paquiz. She particularly cited countries like USA and Australia. She also mentioned that majority of the nurses in the country are underemployed and unemployed because of these changes of policies and visa retrogression of destination countries.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is now encouraging the nurses to apply to other countries aside from the USA and Australia like Saudi Arabia (KSA). The latter is still in need 10,000 nurses for their public hospitals and are specifically eyeing Filipino nurses to fill the vacancies.

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.

All you need to do is to find a nursing job agency that offers job opportunities to Australia. Then double check with the POEA if the employment opportunity is legal.

After that, then it’s just a matter of a few months processing and you will be on your way to the Land Down Under to work as a nurse. Best of luck to you. May you find the perfect nursing job.

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.

Cairns Nursing Agency

Campaign Nursing Agency

Central Sydney Area Mental Health Service
Offers sponsorship opportunities, permanent full time, part time and casual employment and positions for nurses on working holiday visas.

ChoiceOne

Critical Care Nursing Agency

CQ Nurse

Access Nursing
This is an Australian nursing agency.

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

Adelaide Staffing Agency
Another popular nursing agency.

Allied Medistaff Nursing Service
Australian nursing agency for everyone.

ASEPS
This is a nursing agency in Australia.

Australian Nursing Solutions
Melbourne based agency with nursing vacancies in Australia and Canada and, possibly, in New Zealand.