Employee benefits
Queensland Health offers Health Practitioners the following benefits and flexible, lifestyle–friendly employment conditions:
- Superannuation
- Up to 12.75% employer contributions to superannuation.
- Annual Leave
- 4 weeks paid annual leave with option to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave p.a.
- 17.5% loading on annual leave.
- Sick/Family Leave
- Up to 10 days per year, accruable.
- Long Service Leave
- 13 weeks long-service leave after completing 10 years continuous service.
- Parental Leave
- Includes adoption, paternity and spousal leave, as well as paid and unpaid maternity leave.
- Entitled to 14 weeks paid maternity leave which may be taken at half-pay for double the time.
- Family Responsibilities Leave
- You can use your accrued sick leave to care for a member of your immediately family who is sick.
- Study and Conference Leave
- Up to $2,500 p.a in professional development allowance and up to 3 days paid professional development leave p.a.
- Buying extra leave
- Queensland Health may be able to support Allied Health Professionals with family responsibilities, study or personal commitments by allowing you to purchase up to an extra 6 weeks leave per year.
- Rural Allowance
- Health Practitioner employees permanently located in some rural districts will be paid an extra $60 – $100 per week.
- On-Call
- Generous on-call allowances, where this service is required.
- Job Sharing
- Queensland Health supports opportunities for job sharing. Temporary residents need to check with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to confirm their eligibility to work part-time under the terms of their visa.
- Career Breaks
- Allied Health Professionals can negotiate a fixed period away from work to undertake a variety of activities, with a guaranteed job to return to.
- Salary Sacrificing
- You can choose to take a Salary Sacrifice option offer worth around $9,000 gross per annum. Salary Sacrifice is a system where an employee chooses to ‘sacrifice’ a percentage of salary for a benefit (pre-tax) within an approved range of items, eg repayments on your car or home, and superannuation. This reduces the amount of tax you pay on your income. See the Queensland Health HR Policies Manual for more detail.
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