Hey guys.

Well, I am actually doing what you are proposing at the moment! I'm working in Melbourne at the moment. Been in South Aus before here and I came in Jan on a years Working Holiday Visa.

I initially got 'Limited Registration' with the board of South Australia back in January and got an offer of a job before I came out here. Then, with all the change on July 1st, my registration is now 'Limited Registration in the Public Interest', so yea: that is the correct registraion.

As the other post says, employers are more than willing to work with you on the process and fill in the 2 most important bits of your registraion which is:
a) a letter saying you will have a supervisor and have been offered work,
and
b) a copy of some form of professional indemnity insurance.

For the latter, most public and private hospitals will place you on there insurance, so it costs you nothing. If you work in private practice (which most MSK will be), then it's likely that you will need to get your own insurance, costs upto $800 for the year I think. CSP insurance doesn't cover you over here.

My advice is email physio managers about jobs and try to get it all sorted before you leave the UK. That's what I did back in December, and sorted out work in June for me to start in July. The process with the AHPRA is VERY SLOW at the moment due to all the change, and what you don't want is to be sitting in Australia with a visa ticking down and no work due to the registration not coming through.

With re. to the working holiday visa. You only get a years WHV here. You; have to do at least 88 days of work in fruit picking, construction, farming etc................in a 'rural' part of Australia (its all post code related, check out the visa website)
If you do that, you can apply to get a second WHV while your in Australia. Totally ridiculous if you ask me. But that might be something you fancy.

Claire: Few questions. How much experience do you have as a UK physio? For private MSK I think you may struggle with 'Limited Registration' in place. Mainly due to the 'supervised practice' aspect of the rules & regs of 'Limited Registration' and the amount of actual supervision someone in private practice can offer, but you never know.

You could get fully registered before you come here and save yourself a little bit of hassle you know. Do you have more that 12 months UK physio experience................and have you heard of the New Zealand route?

It's honestly not hard to find work as a physio here, it's just the registration malarky that's a pain.

Hope that helps.
Fire any more questions across if you need.

Liam.