Victoria recruiting hundreds of overseas healthcare workers

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The government is boosting Victoria’s healthcare workforce by recruiting hundreds of doctors, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals living overseas—including healthcare workers wanting to return home—to help ease pressure on the hospital system.

Almost 700 overseas healthcare workers have arrived in Victoria in the past year from Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, New Zealand, the Philippines and the United States—taking up employment across Victoria’s public health services, with one in five working in regional areas.

These additional healthcare workers have helped add more than 22,000 extra healthcare workers to the public health system since 2014, including 8,500 who joined the workforce during the pandemic.

The opening of international borders has seen interest from other countries continue to grow, with many workers keen to experience the Australian way of life and further develop their careers in Victoria’s world-class public health system.

Almost 200 of the new arrivals have accessed the Labor Government’s travel allowance scheme to help with relocation costs of up to $10,000 if moving to a metro area, or $13,000 for regional areas.

 

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Some of the Government’s recent workforce initiatives include $3,000 payments to help retain staff working in public hospitals and ambulance services and a $59 million package to recruit more student nurses and student midwives.

Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister for Health Mary-Anne Thomas today visited the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to meet with healthcare workers who are coming from far and wide to work at the world-leading centre.

The international pipeline of new recruits is more important than ever as Victoria’s health system continues to experience record-breaking demand for services, while managing the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, an official press release said.

“With health systems around the world under pressure, workers are in high demand globally. Many have chosen to come to here because of Victoria’s high living standards and its place as a leader in global healthcare innovation.

“Investing in the size and wellbeing of the workforce is a priority for both the sector and the Government as work continues towards building a better health system for the future,” the release added.


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