Conditions
- family friendly policies
- competitive salaries and awards are associated with the different professions, for more information refer www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/careers
- leave entitlements include annual, carers, long service, sick and parental leave.
Benefits
- superannuation
- staff gyms are provided at the RHH and LGH for all staff to become members at very discounted rates
- salary sacrifice – more info at www.ossc.tas.gov.au/salarysacrifice/
- salary packaging for eligible employees - see below
- Take a closer look at our attractive salary packaging options:
Tax savings through Salary Packaging
Salary packaging can provide a significant financial advantage by delivering tax savings and increased take-home pay. Salary packaging options for non cash benefits are only available at our acute public hospital sites of the Royal Hobart Hospital, the Launceston General Hospital and the North West Regional Hospital. They allow eligible employees to take a portion of their remuneration as salary packaged payments which are free of Income Tax.
Packagable Items
Some examples of items that can be packaged include:
- mortgage repayments
- motor vehicle lease
- childcare
- home rental
- municipal rates
- utility charges
- aged care expenses
- disabled care expenses
- a range of insurance
- personal loan repayments
- health insurance premiums
- self education
- school fees
- personal HECS liability
- mobile phones
- personal computer
- laptop or notebook PC
- motor vehicle registration
- work car parking
- professional membership and subscriptions
Any one or combination of the above items can be included in a salary package up to a defined "grossed up" limit.