Conditions of the Scheme. Definition of a Graduate 1.12. Eligible graduates are those who completed their studies in 2014 and can provide evidence of having done so, irrespective of the date of their graduation ceremony. 2. Registration of Interest 2.1. In order to be a participant on the Scheme, you must successfully register your interest and be confirmed on the Scheme (subject to approval of your application). 2.2. To register your interest you must complete the online Registration of Interest application form and provide information to show that you meet, or intend to meet, the eligibility criteria of the Scheme. 2.3. A Registration of Interest is not an application for a place on the Scheme. The purpose of the Registration of Interest process is to provide information about your future work plans so that you can be considered for one of the places on the Scheme. 3. Confirmation on the Scheme 3.1. There are limited places on the Scheme. Successfully registering your interest for the Scheme does not guarantee you will be confirmed on the Scheme. 3.2. A separate process (following consideration of your application) to formally confirm you on the Scheme will follow your Registration of Interest. You will be advised in writing whether your Registration of Interest is confirmed. 4. Participation 4.1. Once you are confirmed on the Scheme, your participation is influenced by: your commencement date on the Scheme minimum employment requirements movement between hard-to-staff communities and/or specialties breaks and pauses parental leave work you may undertake as a locum. In order to be eligible to receive payment from the Scheme you must comply with the eligibility criteria for payment (clause 5). Eligibility Criteria 4.2. To be eligible for the Scheme, you must: already have been working as a doctor in one of the hard-to-staff
Postgraduate Entry Opportunity for General Practice Vocational Training 4.10. Medical graduates from Postgraduate Year (PGY)3 to PGY6 who choose to undertake general practice (GP) training for three years in a hard-to-staff community, are eligible to enter the Scheme. This is irrespective of where you worked in New Zealand during PGY1 and PGY2. GP trainees that commenced general practice vocational training in December 2014 will be eligible to apply for the Scheme during the Registration of Interest process in 2015. 4.11. communities are defined by reference to a DHB, the area is that specified for the DHB under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. 4.12. Hard-to-staff training communities in 2015 for GPs are: Northland DHB (excluding Whangarei Waikato DHB (excluding Hamilton and Cambridge) Bay of Plenty DHB (excluding Tauranga and Whakatane urban) DHB Tairawhiti DHB Hawkes Bay DHB Taranaki DHB Wanganui DHB Midcentral DHB Wairarapa DHB West Coast DHB Canterbury DHB (excluding Christchurch other than Banks Peninsula) South Canterbury DHB Southern DHB excluding Dunedin, Mosgiel and Invercargill Changes to Hard-to-Staff Communities, Specialties and Professions 4.13 You must commence working in one of the specialties or communities listed in clauses 4.8 and 4.11. If you wish to change either your specialty or the community you are working in you may do so only in accordance with clauses 4.20 to 4.23. Commencement Date 4.14. Your time on the Scheme is calculated from the Commencement Date of employment. The Commencement Date is the date you begin working in a hard-to-staff community or hard-to-staff speciality following graduation. 4.15. If you have indicated in your Registration of Interest that you intend to move from your current specialty (not-hard-to-staff) or community (not hard-to-staff), your Commencement Date is the date that your employment in a hard-to-staff community or hard-to-staff specialty begins.
without pay, including normal employment leave entitlements, such as annual leave and sick leave. Parental 4.27. You may take up to 52 weeks parental leave, in accordance with the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987 and remain on the Scheme. 4.28. Time spent on parental leave does not accrue towards your bonding period and must be made up. The bonding period will automatically restart as soon as you return to work in a community and/or hard-to-staff specialty listed in clause 4.8 and 4.11. 4.29. Time spent on parental leave is separate to the break and pause provisions (clauses 4.24 to 4.26). Working as a Medical Locum 4.30. If you undertake substantive or continuous locum work you will not be eligible for payment from the Scheme. 4.31. The Ministry defines “substantive” locum work as being a period of six weeks or more, but does not include: undertaking additional duties for your employer undertaking locum work as a necessary part of a medical vocational training programme for a hard-to-staff specialty. 4.32. For the purposes of the Scheme, a locum is considered to be someone who provides the services in the stead of another practitioner registered within the same scope of practice during normal working hours. 4.33. When you apply for payments from the Scheme, you will be asked to confirm that you have not engaged in “substantive” locum work. Exceptions 4.34. If there is a change in your circumstances that results in an inability to continue to meet the 2015 Terms and Conditions, you may request an exemption for a specified period. 5. Payment 5.1. You are responsible for initiating the first claim for payment after three full years (36 months) have been completed on the Scheme. 5.2. If you stay on the Scheme for a fourth and year, you are responsible for initiating the second and third claims for payment. 5.3. You must apply for payment within nine months of becoming eligible to apply.
information will be stored and used by the Ministry for purposes associated with the Scheme, in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1993. 6.3. The information will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to any person except in connection with the purposes for which it is obtained, or by operation of law. 6.4. You have the to contact the Ministry to request access to and correction of any personal information held about you. 6.5. We suggest you print a copy of these Terms and Conditions for your records. 7. Review in Special Circumstances 7.1 If your circumstances change, and the break or parental leave clauses do not apply, you may apply for a review by the Review Panel 7.2 Applications to the Review Panel must be made to and in accordance with its procedures.