Two girls from Bavaria seeking internship in Australia (Sidney)

[Bernhard]

Hello,

two friends of mine will visit Australia (starting in Sidney) from September, 5th to December, 5th, 2011. They want to visit the country but also to get some work insights in the australian EMS and hospital field.

One is "Rettungsassistent" (german paramedic with 2 year paramedical education) and currently attending university to become a physician (at the moment finishing her second year of medical school).

The other then is a freshly certified nurse (3 year education), experienced "Rettungssanitäter" (540hr EMT training) and certified first aid trainer wanting to go to "Rettungsassistent" school (see above) after the journey.

Both have an european truck driving license and a water rescue license.

They kindly asked me to ask here for some contacts to Sidney EMS and hospitals, where they may get an insight in the countries medical system - if it's a paid internship of any kind, it would be even better. A temporary work permit is available, as far as I understood them (some agency organizes this, but not especially for the medical field so they will do some burger job or such if nothing else is found). Even if there is no pay, they would like to take some shifts in EMS/hospital as a ride-along.

Anyone interested in those nice girls? However, I want to have them back here for my unit afterwards!

Offers for jobs or ride-alongs, questions and any other tips & tricks would be great, please answer in this forum or give me a personal message.

Thank you!

Bernhard

(if you're interested in coming to Bavaria, feel free to ask me for the same!)

[BushyFromOz]

Ok, basically, each of the 8 states or territories here has its won ambulance service, so they will have to contact them directly to get this information. Because of the size of these services there is no real way to get inside info or help on doing some ride time, and some places may not permit it as our placements are taken by uni student doing their degress.

http://www.ambulance.nsw.gov.au/

http://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/

http://www.ambulance.qld.gov.au/

http://www.ambulance.act.gov.au/ESAWebsite/content_actas/home_page/ambulance_home_page.html

http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/ambulance/

http://www.saambulance.com.au/

http://www.ambulance.net.au/

http://www.stjohnnt.org.au/

Look at the webpages and there will be a link to contact each service individually.

Cheers

[krumel]

Hi bernhard,

sorry for bringing bad news, but as a few colleagues (POM-Paramedics) tried the same a few weeks ago I have some bad news for your friends:

Currently Ambulance NSW management will not allow any "guests" to take part in their operations, even unpaid.

They have become very strict after some arguments with the union about their recruitment policy which led to the closure of the foreign medics program.

Paid internships are also quite impossible to find as most services do only employ people with an PR (permanent resident) visa. The only exception is SJAA (Western Australia) which is currently employing medics on a 457 Visa (temporary work visa) (and BTW: is currently recruiting).

With an "WHV"Visa you have no chance to work in the industry, the only exception is for nurses (who have to registert in their board first).... I can't find the source but I vaguely remember that most territory have strict rules about foreigners working in healthcare...

Greetings,

Philipp

[Bernhard]

Thank you all. I already forwarded these informations to them.

Actually one girl even doesn't want to work in the medical field during her trip any more - after two years doctor school (and some more to come) she now is really thankful for any burger job. That's holiday and perfect for getting the brain relaxed, she said.