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Nursing and midwifery in Western Australia

Moving from overseas or interstate

Why live and work in Western Australia?

Why not!

The weather is great, the beaches and countryside are beautiful and the people are warm and welcoming. There are few better places to live and work.

While it all sounds like sun, sand and surf, Western Australia also offers a professionally rewarding environment for all nurses and midwives. When mixed with the lifestyle we enjoy, it makes perfect sense to consider a move.

There are excellent job opportunities in nursing and midwifery. Experienced nurses are required for a variety of areas, particularly critical care, emergency, general medical and surgical, mental health, neonatal intensive care, oncology, operating theatre, paediatrics, rehabilitation, renal and trauma.

WA Health is committed to ensuring that the state's public health service is well equipped to promote and protect the health of Western Australians now and into the future. We are upgrading our hospitals and building new facilities, including a new state-of-the-art tertiary hospital in the south of the Perth metropolitan area.

We are implementing a range of strategies to increase the numbers of nurses and midwives, including supporting nurses’ workload through national benchmark levels of nurse to patient ratios. Since 2006, over 600 overseas trained nurses and midwives have been sponsored to work for WA Health.

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More about moving from overseas or interstate:

» Requirements to work
» Career structure in Western Australia
» Bridging your registration
» Benefits
» Working in Western Australia
» Real stories
» Employment opportunities