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• Everyday living expenses
• Personal loan payments
• Private health insurance premiums
• Aged and disability care services
• HELP (formerly HECS) repayments
• Meal Entertainment expenses
• Accommodation and venue hire
• Novated motor vehicle lease
• Disability and income protection insurance. 

To find out more about what you can package and how it works, please refer to your UnitingCare Health salary packaging information or visit the RemServ Portal - click on employer hub under quick links enter the code UCH which will take you to the relevant information for UnitingCare Health.

Health Insurance Discounts

Our corporate health cover partnerships enable you to access discounted health insurance. We have partnerships with:

• NIB Health Fund
• Medibank Private
• Health.com.au
• Bupa

Staff Admission Hospital Discount
If you or your immediate family members covered under the same health cover, are admitted to a UnitingCare Health hospital, you can receive a refund of up to $500 per annum against any excess or co-payment payable under your health insurance policy. For employees without health insurance, you and your immediate family may also be eligible to receive a discount to a maximum of $500 per year against the hospital self-insured charge rate.

Paid parental leave
UnitingCare Health offers eight weeks paid parental leave for full time and part time employees who have worked for UCH for 12 or more months and are the primary care giver of their new born child.

Flexible working arrangements
We understand that juggling work and personal lives can be a challenge, so if you need flexibility with your work hours, you may be able to make an arrangement that suits you and UCH.

If you’re approaching retirement, or have recently retired, we’d encourage you to consider flexible working hours so you can extend your career with UCH.

Purchasing additional leave
As a permanent employee, you may make a request to purchase an additional one or two weeks of annual leave each year for recreational purposes.

Annual leave at half pay
In certain circumstances, you may elect to use annual leave at half pay.  For further details see your Enterprise Agreement.

Employee Assistance Program
Volunteers, employees and their immediate families may access up to 3 free confidential counseling sessions, plus access to a range of online self support tools and resources. For more information please visit Employee Assistance Program

Pastoral Care
UnitingCare Health provides employees the opportunity to seek pastoral care support and guidance through our onsite Chaplains

Innovation and Excellence Awards
UnitingCare Health Innovation & Excellence Awards provide the opportunity to formally recognise outstanding individual and team performance in quality and service delivery across our organisation. The awards are designed to help improve clinical and non-clinical performance, practices, capability and results; to facilitate communication and sharing of best practice information within UCH; and recognise and support leaders in quality improvement.

UnitingCare Health offers a range of professional development opportunities including:

• Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management
• Management and Team Leader skills development courses
• Staff professional development courses
• Clinical Specialty Programs
• Clinical Education
• Traineeships/Apprenticeships

UnitingCare Health offers staff a range of health and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year.

Free Flu vaccinations
All employees may access FREE flu vaccinations each year. Flu vaccination clinics are held at every year in March/April and you will be notified via email or through your manager.

Staff Gym
UnitingCare Health is pleased to offer staff access to fully equipped Hospital gyms for personal fitness.

Healthy Workforce program **UCH-wide program currently under development**

UnitingCare Health aligns all our leadership development activities with the UnitingCare Queensland Values Based Leadership framework. Our leadership development programs include:

• the UnitingCare Queensland Graduate Certificate Leadership and Management (in partnership with Griffith University Business School)
• a biannual Leadership Development Institute for all managers
• the Management Skills Development Series
• the Team Leader Skill Set
• Executive and Leadership coaching 

To compliment your technical training, we offer workshops and eLearning modules to enhance your communication and interpersonal skills.

UnitingCare Health provides a dedicated Librarian who undertakes information searches for staff to keep them informed in their area of clinical interest. Our E-library provides access to a large range of online databases to assist with research or to inform evidence based practice at work. The self service E-library is accessible from any computer on the UnitingCare Health network. The Librarian can perform online services and document delivery for Visiting Medical Practitioners, once approval has been gained.

Clinical Education is offered at each UnitingCare Health hospital. Clinical Educators support nursing staff in each department.

Our hospitals partner with major universities to provide clinical training to graduates, nurses and allied health professionals, including in service program's and skills labs. UnitingCare Health has affiliations with:

• University of Queensland 
• Queensland University of Technology
• Griffith University 
• Central Queensland University 
• Australian Catholic University
• Charles Darwin University
• University of Southern Queensland
• University of the Sunshine Coast

UnitingCare Health offers undergraduate clinical placements across all health disciplines and takes the responsibility of teaching very seriously to ensure a positive experience for students as they work towards becoming a professional. 

For more information on the broad range of educational opportunities offered across UnitingCare Health, please see UnitingCare Health Clinical School page.