Allowances and incentives
Salary sacrificing
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Salary sacrificing or packaging allows you to deduct some of your pre-tax salary and use it to pay for benefits such as rent or mortgage repayments, insurances, motor vehicle operating expenses, travel expenses and more.
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By reducing your pre-tax income, you reduce the amount of income tax you pay, and therefore increase the amount of pay you take home each fortnight.
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Rural and remote allowance
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On call allowance
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Emergency clinical on call allowance
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Professional development allowance
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Permanently employed allied health professionals will receive an allowance to undertake professional development activities, of either $1500, $2000 or $2500 per year depending on whether they are located in a metro/regional, rural or remote district or healthcare facility respectively. This is divided up and paid fortnightly with your salary.
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Higher education incentive
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Employees at a level of HP3.0-HP3.7 or HP4.1-HP4.3 who hold a relevant Post Graduate Certificate, Post Graduate Diploma, second Degree or equivalent credential; or Post Graduate Masters Degree or PhD, are entitled to an immediate advancement of one increment.
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Those who have been at the top increment of their level (HP3.8 or HP4.4) for 12 months are entitled to an all purpose allowance instead of the immediate advancement of one increment. This is equal to $2682.86 (second Degree or Post Graduate Certificate/Diploma) or $4215.92 (Masters of PhD) per year, which is divided up and paid fortnightly with your salary.
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Student clinical education allowance
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Radiation therapy development allowance
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Radiation therapists, including professional development year radiation therapists, are entitled to a radiation therapy development allowance of $5839 per year, which is divided up and paid fortnightly with your salary.
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Registration and licensing fees
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Queensland Health will pay the licence fees for employees who are required to hold a licence under the Radiation Safety Act 1999 (QLD).
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Allied health professionals required to hold dual registrations, such as sonographers, are entitled to have the cost for their second registration paid by Queensland Health.
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Rural and Remote Allied Health Priority Transfer Scheme (RRAHPTS)
- The RRAHPTS allows eligible permanent allied health employees to apply for a priority transfer to a metropolitan, regional, rural or remote location of their preference when a suitable position becomes available. Eligibility includes accural of a minimum continuous service period of three years in a rural location or two years in a remote location.
Refer to the Rural and Remote Allied Health Priority Transfer Scheme HR Policy B67 for further information. Click to view policy.
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