Core benefits
When you join Austin Health, you'll gain access to a comprehensive range of benefits designed to support your health and wellbeing, professional development, and most importantly help you live a healthy and fulfilled life.
Many of our roles attract benefits such as:
- five or six weeks annual leave
- additional purchased leave
- monthly rostered days off
- flexibility of days and hours
- hybrid working
Physical wellbeing
We support our people in a variety of ways to stay healthy. This includes free flu and COVID jabs and immunisations, free health and skin checks, regular movement challenges and discounted health insurance with a number of providers.
Employees can access the low cost Kokoda Gymnasium located at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital site, available to staff outside patient hours. A corporate fitness program is also available to employees whereby over 160 fitness and aquatic centres are accessible within one affordable membership for individuals and/or families. And a number of local fitness centres offer discounted memberships to Austin Health employees, including yoga, Pilates, F45 and more!
Mental wellbeing
Mental wellness is just as important as physical health. We offer a suite of supports to help maintain and enhance positive mental health, which includes wellness webinars and team wellbeing sessions.
We also have both indoor and outdoor rest and recovery areas at all of our sites.
Employees and their family members can receive free, confidential counselling and coaching through Austin Health’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP). This service is available for both professional and personal situations, as well as additional coaching services such as career assist, money assist and legal assist.
Financial services and staff discounts
At Austin Health you can 'package' your salary into income and benefits. This helps you pay less income tax and receive more take home pay. For more information, please see salary packaging.
Regular onsite seminars are run by our superannuation fund partners, to support staff in creating a secure and productive future. We also have a Transition to Retirement Program available to our mature workforce.
As an Austin Health employee you have access to special discounts and offers at many local, national and international businesses. This includes food and beverages, health and beauty, clothing, computers, vehicle maintenance and much more!
Learning and development
We want our people to have opportunities to continue to grow and develop their skillsets while they work at Austin Health.
Through ATLAS, our learning management system, you can enrol in e-learning courses and workshops of interest to you. We have leadership development programs for staff at varying levels, and we offer a Simulation Centre at our Austin Hospital site. All staff are regularly invited to lunchtime learning webinars.
We also offer various educational programs to clinical staff, as well as conference, exam and/or study leave.
Transport and childcare
We deliver services for patients across our four main sites in Melbourne:
- Austin Hospital
- Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital
- Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, and
- Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre
As well as in locations across our community, in people’s homes and within regional hospitals across Victoria.
All sites are accessible via public transport, with our largest site, Austin Hospital, located directly opposite Heidelberg train station. A free employee shuttle bus service runs every 15 minutes between Austin Hospital and Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.
We provide onsite car parking facilities for its employees, with payment through payroll deduction. For casual onsite parking employees, they have the option to salary package the cost of their parking. End of journey facilities are also provided.
We also have a childcare centre located onsite at Austin Hospital, available from 6.45am to 6pm. And provide a breastfeeding friendly environment, with breastfeeding/parenting rooms available for employees at all sites.
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Austin Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands we live and work on, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders and the ongoing connections of the oldest living culture in the world. We support the important role First Nations Peoples continuously hold in our society and are committed to providing culturally safe services that will assist us in achieving our vision for reconciliation.
