Terms and Conditions - 2010 Intake
The information below supplements the 'Voluntary Bonding Scheme Terms and Conditions - 2010' by briefly summarising some key sections related to the 2010 intake.
It is recommended that you read the full Terms and Conditions as well as the information below.
Doctors
Doctors must work in one of the hard-to-staff communities for Doctors for up to two years then be accepted on, and be completing, a vocational training programme for one of the hard-to-staff specialties for Doctors for the remainder of the three to five year bonding period.
The hard-to-staff communities for Doctors are:
- Northland DHB
- Lakes DHB
- Tairawhiti DHB
- Whanganui DHB
- Wairarapa DHB
- West Coast DHB
- South Canterbury DHB
- Southland DHB
- Taranaki DHB
- Wairau Hospital
- Whakatane Hospital
- Thames Hospital
The hard-to-staff specialties for doctors (in any community) are:
- General Practitioner
- General Surgeon
- Internal Medicine Physician
- Psychiatry
- Pathology
- Rural Hospital Medicine
Midwives
Midwives must work in one of the hard-to-staff communities for Midwives for three to five years. The hard-to-staff communities for Midwives are:
- Northland DHB
- Counties Manukau DHB
- Tairawhiti DHB
- Taupo
- Whanganui DHB
- Wairarapa DHB
- Capital and Coast DHB
- South Canterbury DHB
- Southland DHB
- West Coast DHB
Nurses
Nurses must work in one of the hard-to-staff specialties for nurses for three to five years. The hard-to-staff specialties for nurses are:
- Theatre
- Intensive Care (ICU)
- Cardiothoracic
- Surgical
Payments
You are responsible for initiating the first claim for payment after three full years (36 months) have been completed on the Scheme in accordance with the 2012 intake Terms and Conditions.
You will only be eligible for payments if:
- you have been employed in a hard-to-staff community and/or specialty for three full years (36 months) in accordance with the Terms and Conditions
- you meet minimum full time equivalent (FTE) employment requirements (refer to the Terms and Conditions) OR the required number of births for Lead Maternity Carer Midwives (refer to the Terms and Conditions)
- you have complied with the rules governing pauses and absences from the Scheme (refer to the Terms and Conditions).
Note: Change to Parental Leave Provisions
In 2011, the parental leave provisions were altered to allow more flexibility. These have been applied retrospectively. Rather than using break and pause provisions, all graduates can now make use of the following:
Bonded graduates are eligible to take up to 52 weeks parental leave, as agreed with their employer, which mirrors the parental leave provisions provided for in the Parental Leave and Employment Act 1987.
Time spent on parental leave does not accrue towards a graduate’s bonding period. The bonding period will automatically restart as soon as the graduate returns to work.
Time spend on parental leave is separate to the pause and break provisions outlined in section 8 of the terms and conditions.
If you have any further questions please email bonding@moh.govt.nz
