Nurses in NSW have fought hard for desperately needed nurse-to-patient ratios, which have now been delivered via set nursing hours per patient day. New funding is available for 1,400 more nurses and midwives to join NSW public health over the next two years.
It means there will be better working conditions and more nurses and midwives in our hospitals – a key ingredient to better patient care.
It’s a great time to go into nursing in NSW, or to come back to it. There are hundreds of new positions available right now.
NSWNA Assistant General Secretary Judith Kiejda said, ‘We campaigned hard to win these provisions as part of the Award. It’s time for nurses and patients to start reaping the benefits we have won.’
To find out about jobs which are being offered in the first ward conversions, go to http://nswhealth.erecruit.com.au/
Once there, enter “Nursing” for categories and the appropriate LHD for entities, then hit the Search button.
And of course you can just visit the Nurse Uncut job page (here) to find nursing positions in NSW!
It’s a great time to go back to nursing!
Image credit: NSWNA
Don’t forget to subscribe to our free Nurse Uncut e-newsletter here!
” It’s a great time to get into Nursing ” …
Who actually said that?
The sum total of several major threads on this forum say otherwise.
Isn’t it TIME, to start telling the TRUTH ?? ( the real truth, and not the politically correct interpretation of the truth )
” … hundreds of ‘new’ positions available right now …”
Well, that’s not really correct, is it ??
Today ( upon release of this thread by Nurse Uncut, the official figures ( direct from NSW Health Jobs website ) …
There are 251 Registered Nurse positions, and just 89 Enrolled Nurse positions available across the entire NSW Health network.
These figures in clude all sub-divisions of RN and EN employment, such as CNC, CNS, and EEN senior roles. They are NOT the ‘new’ positions the NSW Health hype refers to …
” … hundreds of new positions …” should be reflected on the NSW Health Jobs recruitment website. Clearly, it is not.
Conclusion ? More damn lies from NSW Health ( and any other organisation that supports such lies, via continuing to advertise the false reality of the current situation of Nurse employment in NSW Public Health )
Further to my above comments …
There are more than one NSW Health jobs recruitment websites.
Apparently, they do not show the same positions available. By using the website ‘erecruit’ as ain the main story above, the figures are 272 RN positions, and 39 EN positions. Those figures cover all job types ( full time, part time, temporary and casual ).
To check these figures yourself, you need to use the filter for excluding management and assistant in nursing positions ( plus others ).
Again, I maintain the position, that there are not ” hundreds of new positions” available right now.
On all NSW Health recruitment websites, the figures reflect senior roles, and other positions that should not be counted in the “hundreds” of positions alleged.
“It’s a great time to go into nursing in NSW, or to come back to it. There are hundreds of new positions available right now.”
Really?? Well, why do they make it so hard to ‘come back to it’?
I’m certainly wanting to come back to Nursing. I love Nursing. I just can’t afford the $10,000 fee associated with the ONE and ONLY course held in NSW at The College of Nursing, to enable me to COME BACK TO NURSING! Nor can I afford the $8500 approx cost of childcare fees & travel costs, or be away from my family for 2months to complete the course.
It’s not a great time at all!
It would be a ‘great time to come back to Nursing’, if there was a flexible and more affordable ‘Assessment of Competence Course’ to do! Then there would be more Nurses returning to the workforce after having 5years off bringing up their young children.
Please sign my petition regarding the ludicrous situation Nurses have found themselves in when they try to re-enter the workforce, after more than 5years off work:
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-hon-jillian-skinner-mp-minister-for-health-introduce-an-affordable-and-flexible-re-entry-to-nursing-course?share_id=LfNCOROAHo&
So why am I, an experienced nurse facing HUGE bureaucratic, financial and emotional hurdles to try and get back into working in the public health system? I’d love to “Go back to nursing” .