Careers at St. Vincent's Health

To find out what jobs are on offer currently, please click on the Weekly Job Vacancies link (left).

There are many benefits to being a St. Vincent's Health employee. The following is a guide to the various services and work conditions offered to staff. Please contact us if you have any other queries about working at the Hospital.

Salary Packaging

Salary packaging offers employees part of their wage in a form other than cash-based remuneration. Subject to relevant taxation laws, employees can receive certain authorised benefits, rather than gross pay, which is normally subject to PAYE/PAYG tax.

St. Vincent's Health is able to offer this benefit because it operates Public Benevolent Institutions, which are entitled to some exemptions from paying Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT). FBT is a tax on non-cash remuneration, including employer payments for items such as mortgages, motor vehicles and school fees.

Hospital employees are generally offered up to $17,000 of their remuneration in the form of benefits.

Professional and Vocational Training

St. Vincent's Health provides an extensive professional development program.

St. Vincent's Health is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) that offers high quality training. Our training is targeted at professional development and offers a mix of innovative, established and accredited programs that are evaluated externally. Our clinical school consistently rates amongst Australia's best.

Support Team Action Response (STAR)

Assisting St. Vincent's staff to deal with stress and trauma in the workplace.

Any incident can affect a worker - it does not have to be a major disaster. Often it is the combination of accumulated stress and the incident that causes an unusually strong emotional response.

Critical incidents are usually unexpected and may involve a threat to life or welfare. Increasing demands upon skills and resources, threats to safety, contact with body fluids, or traumatic and sudden deaths are just a number of events that can affect us at work.

Most health professionals cope extremely well with critical stress. However, sometimes incidents occur that cause us great stress. This can be a very normal reaction to exceptional events.

It is how we deal with them that matters! Seeking help early may prevent future problems. Talking has been proven to be effective in reducing the intensity of feelings, putting thoughts into perspective, regaining control over emotions and developing support networks. If you feel you want to talk to someone who understands, who you can trust and is familiar with managing workplace stress or demands, then a STAR member may be able to help.

The STAR team consists of St. Vincent's Health staff selected from all disciplines who are trained in Critical Incident Stress Management, an internationally recognised psychological model. STARs ensure that all staff receive support either as a group or one to one. Support is confidential. STARs operate on a voluntary basis and are skilled at listening in confidence.

St. Vincent's Employee Assistance Counselling Program (ACCESS Counselling service)

A free and confidential employee assistance and counselling service is available to staff members and immediate family seeking assistance in dealing with issues such as:

· Workplace difficulties · Family problems · Marital conflict and relationship issues · Separation and divorce · Alcohol and drug use · Gambling · Work related stress · Grief and loss · Child care · Physical abuse · Financial difficulties

St. Vincent's Lifestyle Centre

The St. Vincent's Lifestyle Centre is located at the St. Vincent's Hospital campus and provides a range of services and facilities to promote exercise and a healthy lifestyle.

Facilities include:

• Free weights and pin loaded machines
• Cardiovascular exercise equipment
• Aerobics/yoga classes
• Health assessments and specialised fitness programs
• Personal training and massage

Childcare at the Early Learning Centre

The St. Vincent's Early Learning Centre provides full and part time care to children aged from three months to six years. The centre also offers an extended hours kindergarten program, a specialist music program called Mini Maestros, and a second language which is Italian.