Yeah, forgot to mention in my past post that my OH's redundancy request was turned down (why ask people to volunteer for redundancy then refuse it...hmmm!?)
But, its not changing out plans just making them slightly less straight forward financially (redudancy pacakge would have made a BIG difference to our bank balances!) but we're carrying on anyway.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Hmmm
Well, things are on the move...kind of. Application for my police check has been sent (and received according to the Royal Mail tracker which I don't have a hige amount of faith in!)so shoudl take a couple of weeks to get processed. Once thats back, and I finish writing my competency stuff I can send my Midwifery Registration away.
But....Im having a wobble about New Zealand. I really shouldn't read all the negative stuff on forums etc but when there's so much of it its a bit hard to ignore. I want to be sure that NZ is the right destination for us (cause we're definetly going somewhere!!) before we start forking out the serious £££ for registrations and visa's.
Mind you, we have said we'd go for a year and see how it goes and I'd rather go for a year and decide its rubbish than not go at all. Maybe I should just 'un-bookmark' those forums!
But....Im having a wobble about New Zealand. I really shouldn't read all the negative stuff on forums etc but when there's so much of it its a bit hard to ignore. I want to be sure that NZ is the right destination for us (cause we're definetly going somewhere!!) before we start forking out the serious £££ for registrations and visa's.
Mind you, we have said we'd go for a year and see how it goes and I'd rather go for a year and decide its rubbish than not go at all. Maybe I should just 'un-bookmark' those forums!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Paperwork mountain
Ok, so there's still no news about the redundancy but we've decided to get the paperwork underway anyway. First things first and I need to apply for my NZ Midwifery Registration. I need to get my registration sorted out first so I can then apply for jobs before completing my actual visa application.
The whole registration process doesn't look too bad until you see all the additional paperwork that's needed to go along with the initial forms. Here's the process...
NZ Midwifery Registration - not only does this include the paperwork for the registration itself (which is actually pretty easy stuff) but also involves completing a supporting document to show evidence that I can meet the NZ Midwifery competencies.
To go along with the registration documents I also have to sort out;
1) a police certificate (this is different to a disclosure as I've now discovered and comes from the Association of Chief Police Officers
2) verification of my registration from the NMC
3) transcript of my degree course from uni
4) a copy if my portfolio and CV (best actually get my portfolio up to date then eh!)
5) certified (by an actual legal person) copies of my birth certificate and passport
6) 2 references
7) a medical certificate
8) cheque for £500ish
So far I've managed to complete the forms to request my police certificate, copy the proof of address info that they need and find my passport that needs photocopied. Still need to sort out a passport pic and get it signed by a 'professional' person (i.e the first colleague that crosses my path at work tomorrow!) and sort out the £35 cheque to go with that lot.
As you can see this is just the start of the paperwork and its pretty full on already and I've got a feeling its only gonna get worse...
The whole registration process doesn't look too bad until you see all the additional paperwork that's needed to go along with the initial forms. Here's the process...
NZ Midwifery Registration - not only does this include the paperwork for the registration itself (which is actually pretty easy stuff) but also involves completing a supporting document to show evidence that I can meet the NZ Midwifery competencies.
To go along with the registration documents I also have to sort out;
1) a police certificate (this is different to a disclosure as I've now discovered and comes from the Association of Chief Police Officers
2) verification of my registration from the NMC
3) transcript of my degree course from uni
4) a copy if my portfolio and CV (best actually get my portfolio up to date then eh!)
5) certified (by an actual legal person) copies of my birth certificate and passport
6) 2 references
7) a medical certificate
8) cheque for £500ish
So far I've managed to complete the forms to request my police certificate, copy the proof of address info that they need and find my passport that needs photocopied. Still need to sort out a passport pic and get it signed by a 'professional' person (i.e the first colleague that crosses my path at work tomorrow!) and sort out the £35 cheque to go with that lot.
As you can see this is just the start of the paperwork and its pretty full on already and I've got a feeling its only gonna get worse...
Saturday, November 7, 2009
First post, a wee bit of background...
Ok, so this is my first post. I cant promise to update this on a hugely frequent basis, solely because the whole emigration process doesnt happen too quickly but I will update with any relevant happenings (or anything else I fancy posting really!)
A wee bit of background info then. Im a midwife, recently qualified in 2008. Before that I was a learning disability nurse for 10 long years. My other half is a BT engineer.
Although I was lucky enough to secure a job when I qualified my one year contract is about to run out and there's no funds in the budget to extend it so, come Jan '10 I'm unemployed with no sign of any job prospects. I've considered NZ for a few years but now my OH is on board too so we're starting the process of applying for visas and my NZ midwifery registration.
At the moment we're waiting to hear if my OH has been successful in his application for voluntary redundancy from his job with BT. The outcome of that will affect our timescales but not the final plans.
So, right now we're kinda in limbo, but in the main we're...
-Doing lots of research into cost of living in NZ and reading some scary posts on other forums about how high it is!!
-Checking out house rentals, houses in NZ are an 'interesting' bunch (I'll post some links later on to show you what I mean)
-Job hunting, having a choice is a major novelty!
-Printing off the huge amount of paperwork that we need to fill in, firstly for my midwifery registration and then for the visa itself.
I'll update this as things happen (or dont happen that should do) and will any major news (and probably also just when I want a rant or moan about the whole process.
Lx
A wee bit of background info then. Im a midwife, recently qualified in 2008. Before that I was a learning disability nurse for 10 long years. My other half is a BT engineer.
Although I was lucky enough to secure a job when I qualified my one year contract is about to run out and there's no funds in the budget to extend it so, come Jan '10 I'm unemployed with no sign of any job prospects. I've considered NZ for a few years but now my OH is on board too so we're starting the process of applying for visas and my NZ midwifery registration.
At the moment we're waiting to hear if my OH has been successful in his application for voluntary redundancy from his job with BT. The outcome of that will affect our timescales but not the final plans.
So, right now we're kinda in limbo, but in the main we're...
-Doing lots of research into cost of living in NZ and reading some scary posts on other forums about how high it is!!
-Checking out house rentals, houses in NZ are an 'interesting' bunch (I'll post some links later on to show you what I mean)
-Job hunting, having a choice is a major novelty!
-Printing off the huge amount of paperwork that we need to fill in, firstly for my midwifery registration and then for the visa itself.
I'll update this as things happen (or dont happen that should do) and will any major news (and probably also just when I want a rant or moan about the whole process.
Lx
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