Hospitals’ UK reality TV jobs drive thwarted by visa delays | AngusGthompson
Plans to recruit more nurses to Australia by advertising during a popular British reality TV show were thwarted, despite a surge in interest, when only five applicants managed to get visas.
“In the face of these challenges, we needed to be innovative in the way we attracted new talent – scarce, high demand, essential, frontline workers – and quickly,” Faktor saidNurses Down UnderWhile the show aired from August last year, the group launched targeted social mediaFaktor said it received 1800 applications for specialist healthcare roles, including 250 from overseas applicants, yet only five appointments were able to be made from the latter group.
Caitlin O’Dea, the health policy director for Catholic Health, said plenty of qualified nurses and healthcare and aged care workers were keen to come to Australia but were being deterred by the onerous immigration system. Welsh nurse Ariana Evans, who is working in the intensive care unit at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney after arriving in May, said she had long wanted to work at the hospital and had applied after seeing the advertising campaign.“Since I’ve come here I’ve been trying to encourage a lot of my friends to come here because of the way of life,” said Evans, who is currently on a working holiday visa but hopes to stay in the country long term.
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