Employment Overview

Kareena Private Hospital has a strong commitment to support our staff with their learning and development and requirements and career aspirations.
As part of the Ramsay Healthcare group of hospitals in Australia, UK and Indonesia our people have additional opportunities for career advancement across this large group of over 60 hospitals.

Employee Support Unit
Within Kareena Private Hospital our Employee Support Unit is committed to staff benefits and development and a workforce that is at the forefront of medical expertise and patient care. and works to support the 400+ staff employed in Medical Nursing, Allied Health, Administration and support roles.
The vision for our Employee Support Unit is ‘Developing and Caring for our People.’

Wellbeing and Balance Program
The Wellbeing and Balance program enables staff to access services such as Employee Assistance program, onsite massage and beauty therapy, discounted health insurance, salary packaging and financial planning advice.

The program also encompasses social events for staff and their families through community sporting events such as Sutherland and City to surf, Golf days, Bowls tournaments family open days, thank you meals. See our latest Events and Happenings Calendar for more details.

Staff  are recognized for their individual contributions to Kareena through Years of Service ceremonies, reward vouchers and team recognition weeks.

Employees are offered access to a wide range of discounts and benefits, through our unique Ramsay Employee Club, this enables staff to enjoy great savings, discounts and privileges just for working at Kareena.

Internal Training and Development Programs
We are committed to promoting an encouraging personal and professional development by offering internal education programs rangeing from clinical training to management and administration skills.

Examples of this training include Preceptor program, Advanced life support course, cannulation programs, wound care, computer training, recruitment and selection and management development programs.

All staff has access to the Ramsay online library service, this service allows staff to access journals and medical and nursing databases. The service is accessible through hospital and remote computers.

Hospital orientation programs
At the commencement of employment, all staff are required to attend a tailored hospital orientation program, this program is conducted monthly and includes a number of mandatory education programs such as customer service and emergency training, manual handling/ health and safety and workplace diversity .

In addition to the hospital orientation program all staff are provided with a comprehensive orientation to the area or department in which they are employed.

External education attendance
We support applications for external courses that include training programs seminars / workshops and conferences that attract a fee and are conducted by external organizations or higher education at TAFE  and Universities.

In addition, we provide annual study grants for our employees to provide them with alternative external education opportunities.