deano

Hi, We have completed all the meds application etc.... April2005 136 indep skilled visa and are planning to go to Adelaide . Ihave 2 boring questions so please forgive me!!!!!!
are there any therapists out there ........ and
does anyone have any idea approx how close we are to getting our visa as everything requested by CO has been done.... THANX

judeyoga

Not sure I can be of any help as we are just at the begining of the process but I am an OT - looking to go to Perth. I've been assured by agents that the process will be very quick but I have no idea of the reality of of this!
Jude

deano

Hey Jude ...Corny eh, Nice to hear from another OT at last though,
how many are going?
What field do you practice in and at what level?

we started with my COTRB backin Sept 04 -cleared Dec04 PCC completed, Meds requested March05 completed April05 sent one week ago now waiting for the OK. We did it ourselves with no difficulties as yet (fingers crossed) and it seems to be fairly quick... the waiting is the worst bit though.. We are hoping to get to Adelaide SA let me know how you progress
PS where in Yorkshire?????

windsordave

Hi both

My girlfriend is a) Australian and b) an OT so if you have any questions let me know. Oh - she's currently based in Brisbane.

cheers
Dave

deano

Thanx Dave, could your girlfriend let me know about average salaries working practices, conditions pros and cons to being an OT in oz anything really would be great ...... thanx

judeyoga

My husband an I are hopefully off to Perth, he is a mental health nurse and i am a Senior One / Head IV at the moment in mental health. (well at the moment i am on adoption leave so am currently studying Balamory and the fimbles!) We are going through an agent and as i say have just started the process by signing up and sending CVs through. We are going through based on my job because my hubby is too old (don't tell him i said that though!) at 45 to apply in his own name.

I can imagine that the waiting is the worst bit, although having waited for 2 years for the adoption process to work we are getting to be old hands at the waiting game. If you started in September it seems like it may actually be quicker than we thought.

I am interested to receive any replies from OTs who are in the know about working in Aus so hopefully we will hear soon.

I am from Wakefield by the way - does this give you a clue as to why we would like to leave?!?

Good luck with the outcome - from what i have been told it should just be a formality.
Jude

deano

Hi, Cant give you much info at present ... but my wife is from Pontefract, fully understand your reasons for looking at oz........ Im from the midlands (OT) and this is worse than wakey and ponty put together!!! it could be worse I could still be MH though LOL

judeyoga

Are both you and your wife OTs? Where do you live now? Where do you work and what grade are you? Lots of questions I know but I'm intrigued - if your wife is an OT from Ponte Carlo I may know her (or know someone who knows her!) and OT is such a small world - I once spent 20 minutes slating a girl I once worked with to a colleague who turned out to have gone to college with her! (Oops!) Fortunately she felt the same way about her so it was a good bonding experience!

Anyway - spill the beans!

deano

hi jude, this is angie, (mrs dean) not i'm not an OT i work for a bank. i have to say that's the first time i've heard the ponte carlo line! i've heard them call castleford cas vegas but never ponte carlo, excellent!! we live in dudley in the west midlands. dean's currently working as senior one/specialist OT for acute and rehab physical. but being flogged to death working the role of head!! he's about to begin A&E next monday. that's enough about work. have you decided where in oz you want to go? and why?

deano

just gone back to read your previous replys to deans questions and read that you're looking at perth. we considered perth for a short while but kept coming back to the idea of adelaide. don't know why?! i know that this sounds really sad, but i can't wait til i do my first food shop.(dean says he's going to assess my DADL skills) i've got this mental picture of how the supermarket is going to have aisle after aisle of strange foods that i've never seen before and they reach up as far as the eye can see. maybe that's just me! god i'm rambling now, just when you thought you'd found a fellow OT you could have some intelligent conversation with, his wife steps in and spoils it all!!! sorry

deano

Hi, Jude - Ive remembered a girl by the name of Marie clare trevet , I think that was her name anyway she left Dudley (mental Health) to work in Ponte carlo in 1997/8 do you her?????

judeyoga

I know the name, i think she was a BG on the rotation - not sure where she is now but i bet someone i work with will know!

Tell Angie not to worry, working in mental health prepares you for strange conversations (but not as much as living with my husband!) I have been to Aus (just on holiday) to Sydney before and my overwhelming memory of the supermarkets were walking in on my first day in the country to hear a story on the radio about a woman being bitten by a funnel web - first one in 7 years apparently - typical! Also the fact that even though items were priced to require you to pay with a 1 or 2c coin (eg $1.98) they rounded everything up to the nearest 5c because they were trying to phase out these coins - does that make sense? So yes - supermarkets are strange lands!!!

OT in A&E - very exciting! My sister-in-laws dad was head of emergency medicine in Newcastle NSW and told me all about the Head OT proposing an OT service for A&E, he delighted in telling her that he thought his patients wouldn't be in long enough to weave any baskets (Very original sense of humour)! But he had to admit that having had the service he wouldn't be without it now!

Why Adelaide?