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[freckles]

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to introduce myself: I am a permanent resident (Dutchie) and I have lived in the South West of WA with my hubby for the last five years. We have built a beautiful home here and we enjoy the area, but we fell in love with Tassie when we visited a couple of years ago. We long for the cooler weather, fertile soils and the slower pace of life. Where we are now, it is getting busier and hotter by the year. The area we love most is the Deloraine/Mole Creek area. We are just unsure about the job prospects: I am a primary school teacher, hubby is in IT. Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks for your help!

[Shane V]

Hiya freckles and welcome to Real Tas. I'm not sure about job prospects...I think there are a couple of posts on the subject in the forums...can't think of exactly where right now.
Enjoy your stay here, have a look around the forum and if there are questions that have not been answered please don't hesitate to ask

[dave]

howdy Freckles, good to see another face in here!

[Cascade]

Hi Freckles, Welcome to "Real Tasmania" .
Nice part of Tassie although I like the variety of the NW. Mountains, beach & sea, white water, caves, etc all within 15 minutes from home. Although at worst your only an hour from some of the best northern beaches at Narawntapu National Park, along with good camping and facilities at reasonable cost. Quamby Bluff on the doorstep if you need to get high. Some fairly speccy touristy caves not to far away.
You should not have to much trouble with finding employment in the teaching area although you may have to travel initialy. If you do jump in and make the move, sign on with the Ed dept before you leave and give them your expected availability date as long term & short term Relief Teaching is consistantly available in the State and Private system which should help you until you are able to find something more permanent. You may find that if you have excellent skills and fit in well at the schools in which you obtain work there may even be an offer of a position forthcoming at a later date. As for IT.. Well there are lots of places that could employ depending on what your field is in IT. It could even be worth a chance having hubby slip his resume to the ED Dept as well. Not sure how they are off for IT techies at the moment. I shall be attending a school staff dinner this Saturday night and will see if I can find out anything for you from the head IT technician if he is there.

[Mystic]

Welcome freckles. easily understood how you could fall in love with this place. Looking forward to seeing you around more. Good luck with everything. Seems Cascade has given some great advice above

[freckles]

Thanks so much for your encouraging words everyone, I can't wait to come over to have a look around again. Only problem: there is never enough time!
Thanks again for your help, I will be keeping a close eye on the happenings on this forum and hopefully picking up lots of interesting info.
Bye for now!

[Cascade]

Hi again freckles,

You may have already checked this out but just incase you have not this is the contact info for Learning Services North which covers the Meander Valley in which you will find the following schools.

Deloraine Primary
Meander Primary
Mole Creek Primary
Westbury Primary
Plus: Deloraine Secondary School and Ashley Special School

This link will get you a map of Tassie School areas as a PDF file: http://www.education...ith-schools.pdf or this link will get you a northern area only schools map as a document http://www.education...nbranch2006.doc as your chosen location would not restrict you if you are prepared to travel from the Meander Valley area.

Contact Info:

General Manager: Liz Banks
Address: 2 Invermay Road, Inveresk, Tasmania. 7250
Telephone: 03 6336 2594
Fax:03 6334 3350
Email:Learning.Services.north@education.tas.gov.au

This link could be useful as well: http://jobs.tas.gov.au./

[freckles]

Thanks so much Cascade, I will get on with my homework straight away!
What a wonderful community you have here, if it's a reflection on the Tassie way of life than we are defenitely in!

[Mystic]

Nothing surprising about people down here being helpful freckles. It is one of the reasons I love Tasmania. We still have a sense of community, and people like Cascade are the norm, instead of the exception.

I am sure you will never regret the decision to make this your home

[Cascade]

Ok freckles,

Had a chat with the IT guys last night. Their advice was to make a show of interest and watch the gazetted jobs list in all department on the http://jobs.tas.gov.au./ website as I previously mentioned and hop in quick when there's one that interests hubby. Good luck.

[freckles]

Thanks very much Cascade, we are signing up for email job alerts everywhere!