Upper Murray Family Care (UMFC) beckons you to join a warm, supportive, and culturally safe working environment where your expertise can make a real impact.
With office sites located in the beautiful Northeast Victoria and Southern New South Wales areas adventure and a real sense of community awaits. We provide a warm, supportive and culturally safe working environment where your expertise can make a real impact. Employees are encouraged and supported to have a healthy work/ life balance.
We are committed and focused on providing an inspiring, safe and trust-filled environment for all at UMFC with our people being our most valued asset. We care about our employees and as well as investing in esuring excellence and best practice our culture is clear-we want our staff to feel valued, secure, motivated and culturally and psychologically safe.
Upper Murray Family Care (UMFC) beckons you to join a warm, supportive, and culturally safe working environment where your expertise can make a real impact.
UMFC encourages workers to take their leave regularly for staff wellbeing and work/life balance. We provide Annual Leave of 4 weeks as per award plus Health and Wellbeing Leave of 1 week per year pro rata.
In addition, UMFC provide an additional 5 days personal leave (15 days per annum) with the ability to take up to 10 of those days without medical certificate. This is an Organisational benefit in recognition that accessing a certificate etc. may be unnecessarily difficult or inconvenient.
UMFC provides 6 weeks paid parental leave. In addition, the leave provided by the Federal Government Paid Parental Leave scheme can be shared between the birth mother or adoptive parent and eligible dads or partners
Additional Flexible Leave can be provided as required/ assessed, including Community Services Leave (Emergency Services), Jury Duty remuneration, Family Violence Leave and Compassionate Leave.
UMFC chooses to provide the benefit of salary packaging to employees. Employees may currently package up to the relevant threshold in line with ATO regulations uses external consultants Eziway to manage salary packaging for a small fee paid by the employee. Tax free benefits may include rent, mortgage, credit cards, superannuation, meals entertainment and laptops along with novated leases.
An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is provided by an external company for confidential, professional and free counselling (up to 6 sessions) and is available to support all employees. This EAP service can be used to confidentially discuss work or personal issues. This service is also available to immediate family members of staff.
As well as staff wellbeing initiatives throughout the year, UMFC Well at Work provides linkage for staff to local Corporate Gym Membership rates.
Discounts and offers for UMFC employees on home loans, personal loans, term deposits and more.
UMFC values the efforts of employees who ‘go the extra mile’ in their roles. This program seeks to provide a mechanism that enables the outstanding efforts of employees to be recognised and celebrated.
Any employee can nominate another employee, whether they are a peer, subordinate, or manager, for recognition through this program.