Question regarding the employment of Medical Scientists within the WA Health Department, specifically focusing on the number of FTE positions created and filled by subclass 457 visa holders between 2007-2008 and 2013-2014. The answer provides a breakdown of these figures for each financial year.

AnsweredQoN 3069Legislative Assembly
Asked
21 October 2014
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I refer to the employment of Medical Scientists by the Health Department, and I ask: (a) for each financial year from 2007–2008 to 2013–2014 inclusive: (i) how many new full-time equivalent (FTE) positions were created; and (ii) how many FTE were employed in total; and (b) for each financial year from 2007–2008 to 2013–2014 inclusive: (i) how many of the new FTE positions were filled by holders of subclass 457 skilled work visa holders; and (ii) how many FTE employed in total were holders of subclass 457 skilled work visas?

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Answered
25 November 2014
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
35 days
A Medical Scientist is defined as someone who undertakes a broad range of medically based scientific investigations, analyses and/or production of materials normally in a medical laboratory/clinical environment. Occupants of these positions require a degree level qualification.
Financial year
(a)(i)
(a)(ii)
(b)(i)
(b)(ii)
2007-2008
14.8
560.5
0.0
0.0
2008-2009
6.0
608.7
0.0
0.0
2009-2010
10.2
646.4
0.0
0.9
2010-2011
17.3
668.4
0.4
2.7
2011-2012
32.6
690.5
0.7
3.5
2012-2013
12.7
699.7
0.4
3.7
2013-2014
14.1
704.2
1.1
4.5
Notes:
Medical Scientists were identified by searching the WA Health corporate Human Resource Data Warehouse for specific position titles and also by a manual process of identifying individual employees.

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