Benefits with Centacare

At Centacare Townsville, we offer a great range of benefits to our employees including:

• Flexible working conditions.
• Generous salary packaging giving you significantly more take home pay.  (Centacare staff can opt to salary sacrifice up to $16,050 each year of their income tax free, and can be reimbursed an additional $5,200 each year for the costs of meal/entertainment ie restaurant meals and beverages, and catered events).
• 5 weeks annual leave per year.
• 76 hours of study leave available after 12 months service.
• Opportunities to tap into a diverse range of learning and development options that could even include higher education pathways.
• Contribution to part of cost of supervision for your psychologist registration.
• Supervision for all staff, which is consistent with  requirements of professional bodies, such as Psychologists' Board of Queensland and Australian Association of Social Workers.
• 6 free confidential counselling sessions per calendar year are available to permanent employees and their immediate families (ie Employee Assistance Program).  Assistance can be sought for a variety of reasons including stress, workplace change, conflict with fellow workers, marriage and family problems, grief and loss, gambling and alcohol and drug use.   The program is provided by counsellors who are outside of the workplace and are committed to confidentiality.  Information shared with a counsellor will not be disclosed to Centacare unless you agree in writing. 

Plus

Annual leave incentives at each anniversary of the following milestones:

5 years: One week's extra paid leave

6 years: One week's extra paid leave

7 years: The option of pro-rata Long Service Leave becomes available.

PLUS YOUR BIRTHDAY OFF ON FULL PAY

Locality Allowance

Bowen
$1500 per annum

Mount Isa
$5000 per annum

Cloncurry
$6000 per annum

Normanton
$8000 per annum

Palm Island
$1500 per annum