Southern Health is committed to improving the health and well being of its employees and has introduced a new service called, "PEOPLE ASSIST' helping employee's personal and professional growth.

Resolutions RTK is an external company partnering with Southern Health to enhance the health, wellbeing and performance of employees. Offering personal coaching and counselling services plus the support for a variety of work related and personal problems that may be affecting employees at work or at home. Assisting employees to work through problems with the help of skilled professional either face to face or over the phone. A conflict coach helps understand the conflict response and develop new ways of managing conflicts in the workplace.

These services are available to all Southern Health's employees and their immediate family members (parent, spouse/partner or children).

Southern Health provides its employees with  an on site GP service. The GP is available to our staff to visit and for assistance with a variety of health assessments and advice.

This annual event is the world’s largest corporate health and wellness event. It combines exercise, fun, a team based challenge, and ‘virtual’ interactive experiences in some of the most amazing places on earth.  Each day you record the number of steps you have taken through a pedometer and after entering them to a website, a distance is calculated and you are on your way with a virtual tour of the world. Along the way you find out about customs, facts, food, politics and the locals! Of course as you go, your fitness improves. The more active you are the further you travel.

Through our partnership with Medibank Private, Southern Health employees can now benefit  a cost effective corporate private health insurance cover. This can be arranged through the ease of pay deduction.

Part of our commitment to our people is to offer education and information that provides support towards achieving a healthy work/ life balance. Our Lifestyle Management seminars are available to all staff and cover a wide range of topics to help get the most out of life. The seminars run at a number of our sites and are varied in what they cover. For instance you will find seminars on healthy eating, importance of having a budget, maximising your superannuation, making the transition to retirement, understanding fad diets and weight management plus many more.       

With the Microsoft Office 2010 Home Usage Program for Southern Health Staff, all our employees can obtain one licensed copy of  Microsoft Office 2010- Enterprise edition desktop applications for their home computer at heavily discounted prices.

Southern Health provides secure on-site car parking including reserved parking for staff working evening and night shifts at Monash Medical Centre Clayton and Moorabbin, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, the Kingston Centre and Cranbourne Integrated Community Care. Fees for car parking are a pre-tax deduction for Southern Health staff.

Southern Health employees can benefit from Dell’s Employee Purchase Program for the purchase of personal computers and laptops. Through this scheme, employees are able to purchase their own Dell products with discounts of up to 15% off retail prices and delivered directly to you.

Southern Health runs a Professional Development Program under the auspices of the department of Organisational Development and Learning. The program provides a wide range of in-house professional development courses which are available to all our staff. Scheduled learning programs are offered for staff, management and executive development programs, customised training, and consultancy in performance management as well as organisational development.

Courses Outlined include:

• Customer Service Skills
• Leadership & Management Capabilities iLead Program
• Building Positive Attendance
• Introduction to Manager Fundamentals
• Problem solving & Creative Thinking
• Coaching, consulting and implementation support Effective Workplace Communication
• Time Management

Salary Packaging can be a clever way to make the most of your pay. It gives you the flexibility to take part of your salary as approved benefit items (expenses) before PAYG tax is deducted, rather than paying for the item with your post tax salary. By salary packaging an approved benefit you could increase your net disposable income.

Southern Health is a smoke-free environment. We are committed to protecting the health of employees, patients and visitors. Southern Health has recently implemented an Employee GP Clinic at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton site.