Healthcare-trained travellers in Australia could seek
cheap travel insurance before looking for short-term employment contracts.
Abc.net.au reports that a private health service in Western Australia has turned to the internet to offer short-term contracts to backpackers trained in healthcare.
Catholic hospitals in the more remote regions of the Australian state have a chronic staff shortage and so are looking to recruit 1,000 backpackers who may be looking to earn extra money on their trip.
The placements are scattered across 70 different clinics and hospitals, and travellers with healthcare training may be attracted by the promise of short-term work.
Tammy Batten, with the St John of God Hospital at Geraldton in Western Australia, told the website: "People can move all around Australia to all our sites, but this includes any Catholic provider."
Travellers often seek short-term work placements while they travel so that they can pick up some extra money, but jobs such as fruit-picking tend to be more common.
Western Australia is the biggest state in the country and is home to over two million people.
Backpackers have the option of buying one-way travel insurance before they leave home.
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