Central Highlands Rural Health uses an external Salary Packaging company – eziway. CHRH offers Salary Packaging to employees on ongoing and fixed term agreements, as well as casual contracts.
Salary Packaging is an ATO approved and legal method of restructuring your gross salary in order to pay less tax. The ATO gives Central Highlands Rural Health generous tax concessions, which we elect to pass onto our employees.
Benefits available to our employees include:
- Entertainment Benefits
- Living expenses
- Novated Lease vehicles
The ATO limits the amount that employees can salary package each Fringe Benefit Tax year. The FBT year starts 1 April and ends 31 March.
FREE car parking is located at all our sites. Car parking is only a short walk to each of our campuses.
Central Highlands Rural Health offers employees a Corporate Massage Service which comes onto site. Massages are offered to staff during business hours at a discounted rate.
Staff are able to receive their yearly flu vaccinations free of charge.
Central Highlands Rural Health promotes a professional image of pride to clients, patients, residents and visitors. Uniforms are currently provided to all Hepburn based staff who are entitled to a Uniform Allowance in their EBA. Central Highlands Rural Health provide your onboarding uniform and then you are supplied bi-yearly a new allocation. Uniforms come in a range of styles to meet individual needs. Staff at Kyneton are continuing with a uniform allowance in the short term.
Legislation now mandates vaccination for staff who come into contact with patients, as a result it is a requirement of employment at CHRH.
Central Highlands Rural Health is required under regulatory requirements to minimise the risk of infection from a range of vaccine preventable diseases to yourself, colleagues, patients and visitors. New employees to Central Highlands Rural Health are required to provide evidence of immunity.
Staff are able to receive their yearly flu vaccinations free of charge.
The Employee Assistance Program is available to all staff who work at Central Highlands Rural Health. This service provides free, confidential counselling and assistance to staff for personal and work-related issues. The service is independent and can be accessed by staff without a referral from management.
At Central Highlands Rural Health we provide new staff an organisation induction. Our program has been designed to ensure new employees feel comfortable and informed about our service, culture, policies and procedures.
The Victorian Public Sector Commission has issued guidelines for Victorian public sector employees on giving and receiving gifts, benefits and hospitality.
The policy framework includes, in particular, minimum accountabilities for the management of gifts, benefits and hospitality. These minimum accountabilities are binding under Instruction 3.4.11 of the Instructions supporting the Standing Directions of the Minister for Finance 2016.
Gifts Benefits and Hospitality Policy for Central Highlands Rural Health is available for public viewing. This policy is intended to support individuals and CHRH to avoid conflicts of interest and maintain high levels of integrity and public trust.
Central Highlands Rural Health has issued this policy to support behaviour consistent with the Code of conduct for Victorian Public Sector Employees (the Code). All employees are required under clause 1.2 of the Code to comply with this policy
Central Highlands Rural Health maintains a register of gifts received each financial year.