Witness Statement of Jenny Ktenidis

I, Jenny Ktenidis of Unit 2/174 Millers Rd Altona North Vic 3025

  1. I work at Circle Surgery, 2/174-178 Millers Road, Altona North in the role of Practice Manager. I have been in this role for 8 years.
  2. Circle Surgery is a General Practice. Monday to Friday 8.30am -6.30pm, Saturday 9am -12.30pm and some public holidays.
  3. The demographics of our patients range from young families to a vast range of multicultural elderly patients, teenagers and working class famililies.
  4. At the Surgery we employ three Division One nurses. They all work part time. We prefer to employ Division One nurses and when employing would like nurses to have their immunisation certificates. We look favourably towards nurses having extra qualifications but it is not necessary.
  5. Two of our nurses have pap smear certificates. All of our nurses do immunisation, care plans, health assessments and home visits. Two nurses have completed ear syringe courses and two nurses do wound care.
  6. Currently two nurses are doing a diabetes course. The Surgery is very happy for nurses to undertake further education and the Surgery pays for further education.
  7. When employing nurses we advertise what we will pay. We have found that nurses are happy to accept what is offered. Our nurses pay rate is $35 p/h plus super and all annual leave and sick leave entitlements.
  8. The nurses at Circle Surgery want to work part time as all the nurses have children. It is their choice. Our nurses work together to the effect that they cover hours equivalent tothe Surgery having one full time nurse.Between the three nurses we have a two nurses covering 9am to 5pm five days per week.
  9. In my opinion we could not live without the nurses. There is a brilliant working relationship between the nurses and the doctors.
  10. We have not had problems employing nurses and I believe that we are one of the lucky clinics in that regard.We have only had to use an employment agency once to employ of a Div 1 nurse and this was a painless experience, the agency did all the hard work in screening resume’s and the initial interview and they then recommended who they thought would best suit our practice and we then went forward and employed our first nurse.

Signed / Date