Staff Benefits
Facilities
Highly regarded facilities available within the hospital includes a medical library, creches, various shops, cafeterias and yoga classes.
Childcare facilities
An excellent way to combine work and lifestyle to suit your needs. The Royal Children’s Hospital encourages young parents to stay or return to the workforce by offering onsite child care facilities. This safe and child friendly facility combined with well qualified staff provides an excellent environment to care for your child during your working hours.
Ski Lodges
The Royal Children’s Hospital ski club offers membership to all staff to use the excellent located ski lodges at Mt Buller and Mt Hotham. The very comfortable and well maintained accommodation includes a fully equipped kitchen, large dining and lounge room and double and shared bedrooms sleeping up to 30 people.
If you feel like hitting the slopes during winter for a ski or bushwalking during other seasons there is heavily discounted accommodation easily available for you with the RCH Ski Club.
Accommodation
Rydges North Melbourne exclusively offers employees of The Royal Childrens Hospital discounted rates and the ability to book and confirm your accommodation Online.
Please note this is available only to RCH Staff, a customer log in for the website can be obtained by contacting Human Resources on 03 9345 5166. You will need to present your Employee Identification badge upon Check-In.
Banking and loan discounts
The Royal Children’s Hospital has negotiated market cutting home loan rates offered to all its staff by the Commonwealth Bank.
The Bendigo Bank also offer a wide range of banking and loan discounts for The Royal Children's Hospital. These are described in a Bendigo Bank handout.
Check out Nurses First credit society which offers staff at The Royal Children's Hospital free banking services!
The Police Credit Union now also offer Royal Childrens Hospital staff the ability to access their fee free banking services and competitive interest loans for New Cars, Personal Loans and more. Visit the website or contact their Member Service Consultants on 13 63 73.
Microsoft Office Software Discounts
Microsoft's Home Use Program (HUP).
Microsoft Office products for under $40.00! (intranet only)
Whilst you are under RCH employment, you can choose to 'lease' a licensed copy of most Microsoft Office products for a nominal fee - for both PCs and MACs! This offer is only available whilst you are an employee of the RCH. NB: The HUP products can only be installed on privately owned home PC's and CANNOT be installed on RCH owned machines.
Optus Mobile Phone and Internet
All Hospital employees are now able to take advantage of discounted deals from Optus in relation to mobile phone rates and access to the internet (both broadband and dial-up).
There are two deals on offer for mobile phone rates, the Optus Icon Plan and the Optus YourTalk Plan, please refer to the links below for further details on each of these special offers:
The Optus Internet Deals offer Hospital employees great rates over and above what they might find in stores, on Optus Cable Internet, Optus DSL Internet and Optus Dial Up Internet. Please refer to the link below for further details on these special offers:
In order to take advantage of the Internet Deals, staff must provide a "Promotion Code" to Optus when signing up. The Promotion Codes are as follows:
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Cable Internet - HSDRCH2121
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DSL Internet - DSLRCH2121
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Dial Up Internet - DUIRCH2121
Discounted Dry Cleaning
Brown Gouge Dry Cleaning
Discounted Dry Cleaning for all RCH staff: 15% off!
Brown Gouge Dry Cleaning offers discounted dry cleaning and laundry services for all RCH staff. In addition to clothing, Brown Gouge Dry Cleaning will also dry clean rugs, bedding, couch covers, table cloths etc.
Simply present your Staff ID at Brown Gouge Dry Cleaning to receive a 15% discount on your dry cleaning and laundry. Please note, to make use of this discount, staff must submit a minimum of 3 pieces for dry cleaning or laundry.
Address:
Brown Gouge Dry Cleaning
267 Lygon Street, Carlton
Ph: 9347 1951
(This offer is only available at this location)
Operating Hours:
Monday to Friday: 7.30am - 6.00pm
Saturday: 8.00am - 4.00pm
Sunday: 10.00am - 4.00pm
Note: Brown Gouge Dry Cleaning accept all cards and EFT, except AMEX and Diners.
Discounts at shops
The shops located in the Royal Children’s Hospital offer a 10% discount to all staff. Just show your identification badge when purchasing any items whether it is in the chemist, newsagent or gift shop!
Salary Packaging
The Royal Children’s Hospital offer staff attractive salary package opportunities resulting in great benefits and returns for staff. Our salary packaging provider Smart Salary advises on customer tailored salary packaging programs and has individual information available at any time.
Support for staff
Our Staff Support Service is an employee assistance program, which is free and confidential to all employees at The Royal Children’s Hospital. The counsellors are qualified and experienced professionals who have extensive training in counselling and workplace issues.
Our onsite chaplains provide religious support for employees if needed. The chaplains facilitate services such as a remembrance services or provide individual guidance.
Research / Teaching
The Royal Children’s Hospital is renown for its advanced medical research and teaching abilities. Being part of this organisation means developing your skills and knowledge to a world leading and competitive level.
Training & Development
The Royal Children’s Hospital encourages staff to enhance skills and development in their career by providing adequate training and development opportunities. This includes medical specific courses for medical staff, nurses and midwives, management training, IT training and rotation and learning on the job programs.
Numerous awards and scholarships are offered to individuals to take on specific learning opportunities.