Why work with us
At Western Sydney LHD, we offer a dynamic and rewarding career path within one of Australia's most diverse and rapidly growing regions. We offer a variety of incentives and benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.
We also work with a range of partners to create a workplace that encourages innovation and helps to grow your career.
Our incentives and benefits
Discover the great incentives and benefits you’ll receive when you work with Western Sydney LHD.
Western Sydney LHD is known around the world for its research and teaching. The Research and Education Network (REN) supports this work and helps drive new ideas in health care.
To develop as a globally recognised academic health care centre, we work in partnership with multiple stakeholders including:
- The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
- 3 major university partners:
- University of Sydney
- Western Sydney University
- University of Notre Dame Australia
- 2 medical research institutes:
- Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR)
- Children’s Medical Research Institute.
Our research helps improve patient care and safety. We also train skilled health professionals who lead change and work closely with many partners to create a strong culture of teaching, research and care.
As a NSW Health employee, you’ll receive the salary listed in your role description, plus superannuation (9.5% of your salary) and annual leave loading (17.5%).
Eligible WSLHD employees can access NSW Health salary packaging. This allows you to pay for approved personal expenses including living expenses - bills, mortgage repayments, novated leases and meal entertainment expenses, up to $9,009 per year. For example, if you are earning around $90,000 the salary benefit is about $2000.
You may also be eligible for our Meal Entertainment Program, which works like salary packaging. It lets you claim up to $2,650 a year in food and beverage expenses, tax-free.
Flexible work options are available to help you balance personal and family commitments with your work.
Depending on your work commitments, you may be able to access a range of flexible work options including:
- flexible hours
- part-time work
- job-sharing
- working from home.
Our leave entitlements include annual leave for full-time staff who get 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of sick leave each year.
After 40 weeks of work, you can access parental leave, including 14 weeks paid maternity leave and 1 week paid leave for the other parent.
You can also access Family and Community Services leave, study leave, and monthly Allocated Days Off.
Some roles can also cash out extra leave, this means you can get paid for entitled leave that you haven't taken.
We support your health and wellbeing with a range of free or subsidised services including:
- voluntary health checks
- annual flu vaccinations
- a quit smoking program
- subsidised gym membership through Fitness Passport.
The Employee Assistance Program provides free, confidential counselling for you and your immediate family.
Our supportive culture provides learning and professional development opportunities, training and experiences to build your skills and capabilities, as well as practical advice and support. We offer training packages including leadership and management as well as health terminology and project management.
We’re here to help you feel confident and ready to take your next career step when the opportunity comes your way.
Our Child Care and Vacation Care Services helps you to balance your childcare needs with your work responsibilities. Our childcare services cater for the specific needs of our health staff including:
- priority of access
- extended hours care (including evening care until 11.15pm)
- rotating roster placements
- maternity leave contracts
- onsite locations
- breastfeeding provisions.
Culturally safe workplace
At Western Sydney LHD, we want more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to join us and become part of our health community.
We’re building a workplace where First Nations Peoples feel welcome, included and supported to grow their careers at Western Sydney LHD.
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities across Sydney’s western suburbs. If you're looking for a role where you can make a real difference in your community, we want to hear from you.
Our goals and progress
Our Aboriginal workforce is critical to serving the health needs of our diverse Western Sydney community. We are working to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation at all levels and across all roles at Western Sydney LHD.
As of April 2023:
- we employ 178 First Nations Peoples
- this makes up 1.27% of our total workforce
- our goal is to increase this to 2.6%.
We support this goal through our Aboriginal Workforce Plan and a range of recruitment programs, support services and career development initiatives.
We have launched the Aboriginal Workforce Strategy 2022 to 2026 (PDF 6.93MB) to guide how we attract, recruit, retain and develop our Aboriginal workforce.
This strategy supports key initiatives and priorities, including:
- Better West
- Good Health – Great Jobs
- Closing the Gap.
It provides clear direction for creating a more inclusive, skilled and culturally safe workplace for Aboriginal staff across Western Sydney LHD.
Learn about our related strategies and frameworks to build a culturally respectful health system.
Equal employment opportunities
We are committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the Western Sydney community. This helps us make sure that everyone feels respected and supported – including our staff, patients and their carers – no matter their gender, cultural background, age, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Equity is at the heart of how we hire, support and develop our workforce.
Western Sydney is one of the most culturally, linguistically and socially diverse regions in Australia. About 35% of residents were born overseas, and 48% speak a language other than English at home.
The region is also home to the largest urban population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the country, with around 11,500 residents, or 1.4% of the total population.
We aim to build a workforce that reflects and respects this diversity.
At Western Sydney LHD, we are working to achieve equal outcomes in the workplace. We do this by building the confidence, skills and strengths of individuals, families, communities and our own organisation.
NSW Health has set a workforce target for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Australia’s First Nations) people of 2.6% of the total workforce. Western Sydney LHD is working hard to achieve this target.
Our equal opportunity employment frameworks aim to increase options for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by providing opportunities in health care areas where community engagement will have important outcomes – for example, diabetes, cardio and maternity. We are also striving to distribute employment outcomes for Aboriginal people equitably across all salary bands, in clinical and non-clinical roles, in frontline activities and in senior decision-making positions.
About 1 in 5 people in NSW live with disability. At Western Sydney LHD, we want our workforce to reflect the community we serve. That is why we aim to increase the number of employees with disability to 1.5% by 2020.
We are building a workplace that is inclusive, respectful and free from discrimination or harassment. We make sure everyone has equal access to jobs they are suited for, and we value the contribution of every employee.
- We run specific programs to support people with disability. These include:
- clear guidelines on reasonable adjustments in the workplace
- flexible work policies
- career development pathways for employees with disability
- support for staff who acquire an injury.
As we upgrade our buildings and systems, we are making our workplaces more accessible – both physically and digitally.
We employ more people whose first language is not English than the national benchmark. This reflects the diversity of our local communities and the cultural backgrounds of our staff.
We also recruit qualified professionals from overseas and offer targeted roles, such as bilingual community educators, to help improve access to health services.
Speaking another language is a valuable skill at Western Sydney LHD. We welcome and support people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
At Western Sydney LHD we embrace diversity and select the best qualified leaders in terms of both experience and leadership style that supports organisational culture and performance.
Women are encouraged to apply for leadership positions and are well represented at Senior Management, Executive and Board levels.
Your recruitment journey
Submit your application
You can search our externally advertised roles. Once you’ve found a position you are interested in, that matches your skills and experience, select 'apply for job' and simply follow the prompts. Our recruitment team has put together some helpful tips:
- always save your application as you progress
- if you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, include details of your clan, family origins, and relevant documents in your application, Stepping Up also offers job searching support
- using the STAR method to write your cover letter can help recruiters understand your strengths related to the position:
- Situation
- Tasks
- Actions
- Results
- keep your cover letter at 1 to 2 pages
- don't forget to address the selection criteria for the position you are applying for – including communication, time management, organisational, and interpersonal skills
- once you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email.
Assessment and interview
After we review all applications, we will let you know if you will progress to the assessment stage. Assessment processes are often different in each department, but are mostly structured according to:
- the type of job
- number of jobs available
- number of people who may apply.
All our assessments involve at least one interview. You could also be asked to complete more than one interview, psychological assessments, submit work samples and take skill tests as part of the assessment process. You can always reach out to the hiring manager or Human Resources for any questions you might have.
Pre-employment checks
If you are one of the candidates most suited to the job, we will contact your referees. We will ask your permission before contacting your referees to do the checks.
We also do screening checks to confirm certain things about you which may include working with children checks, criminal history checks, employment history checks and more.
Offer of employment
If you are the successful applicant, you will be made an offer of employment. Information about the terms and conditions of your proposed employment will be included. You will be asked to accept the offer online.
Candidates who are assessed as meeting the requirements for the role but aren't successful in their application may also be offered a place in recruitment pool for future vacancies.
Given the high number of applications received for some roles as well as our commitments to employment practices that are fair, responsive and inclusive, the time for recruitment does vary and can occasionally take longer than expected.
Support for Aboriginal candidates
Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aspiring applicants understand how to apply for roles within NSW Health by clarifying the recruitment process and addresses some of the challenges that can be experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
Support when you start
Welcome to Western Sydney LHD, to help you settle into your new role, we’ve created a detailed orientation program.
It includes 12 online learning modules that you’ll complete through My Health Learning.
To support you in your new role, we have designed an orientation program that includes the completion of 12 online learning modules via My Health Learning (MHL).
For employees new to NSW Health, your StaffLink number will be provided to you by your manager.If you are transferring from within NSW Health, you will retain your current StaffLink number (including staff who attended a NSW public hospital as an undergraduate student).
Before you can log into MHL new employees must activate their StaffLink password by calling the statewide service desk: 1300 28 55 33.
Once activated:
- log into MHL to complete the mandatory modules https://hetionline.cit.health.nsw.gov.au/
- check your profile under ‘My Details’ to ensure your details are correct
- familiarise yourself with MHL’s functions by accessing the ‘Learner’s User Guide’.
It is encouraged that you complete the mandatory training within the first 2 weeks of your commencement date.
If you are a nurse or midwife, you will also need to complete the Nursing and Midwifery Orientation.
Nursing and Midwifery orientation
The Nursing and Midwifery Orientation Program has been designed to help and support you to transition to your new role and equip you with the skills and knowledge to deliver modern healthcare to the people of Western Sydney LHD and beyond.
There are 3 sections to your orientation:
- e-Learning: completion of online modules via MHL
- eMR and eMeds training: face-to-face training
- skills assessment: simulated skills assessment.
The orientation program and skills assessments must be completed within the first 2 days of your employment. Evidence of completion must be provided to your line Manager at the beginning of your next workday.
If you have any questions about your orientation, contact your manager or your facility’s orientation coordinator.
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