Employee benefits

• Narrandera Shire Council is committed to developing a modern, contemporary workplace culture and providing a flexible and family-friend environment for our employees. 

  We provide a range of flexible work benefits, including opportunities for

  • 35 to 38 hour working week
  • Full-time, part-time, job-sharing, casual and contract employment arrangements
  • Flextime (flexible working hours and banked time)
  • Compressed hours (four-day week, nine-day fortnight or 19-day month)
  • Provisions for hybrid and remote working (combination of working from home, another location and the office workplace)
  • Phased retirement

  Our employees enjoy generous leave entitlements, such as:

  • Four weeks' annual leave per year and opportunities to purchase additional leave
  • Paid parental leave
  • Long service leave after five years' continuous service in the Local Government sector

   

Narrandera Shire Council encourages and supports employees to further develop their knowledge, skills and capabilities by undertaking further studies. We provide a range of support, including tuition fee support as well as study days, for those employees studying towards tertiary or vocational qualifications.

Learning and develop opportunities are provided to prepare our employees for future career path development. This includes seminars, conferences, external and internal training, and ongoing skill and competency development in conjunction with annual reviews.

We are committed to 'growing our own' and provide opportunities for our employees to develop their management and leadership skills. We encourage employees to take advantage of 'acting-up' roles and secondments to develop their leadership experiences, broaden their skills and prepare them for future opportunities.

At Narrandera Shire Council, we're committed to creating a happy and healthy workplace that values inclusivity and work-life balance.

We provide our employees with a variety checks, including hearing checks, eye tests and skin cancer checks, as well as annual flu vaccinations.

Our annual Health and Wellbeing Calendar includes a variety of events and activities throughout the year aimed at maximising employees' personal, physical and mental wellbeing. Events, activities and seminars vary year-by-year, but span topics such as

• Healthy eating and diet
• Heat, hydration and humidity
• Mental health
• Respiratory health
• Stress management
• Road safety awareness
• Team building
• Workplace relationships

Other benefits include uniform allowances for all staff, and the opportunity to join the active staff social club.

Narrandera Shire Council's employees enjoy access to a range of salary packaging benefits, including novated leases, through our salary packaging provider Maxxia.

Some of the other items our employees may be able to salary package include:

• Remote area rent payments
• Remote area mortgage interest payments
• Remote area fuel, electricity and gas
• Additional (voluntary) superannuation contributions
• Relocation costs
• Self-education expenses
• Personal electronic devices, laptops and mobile phones
• Home office expenses
• Professional association memberships
• Airline lounge memberships

We encourage all employees to seek independent financial advice prior to entering into a novated lease agreement or accessing other salary packaging benefits.

The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a confidential, professional counselling service available free of charge to all employees and their families. The service can be provided over the phone or face-to-face. 

The EAP provides registered psychologists with whom employees may wish to discuss work matters and well as non-work matters such as stress, alcohol and drug problems, and relationship difficulties. 

Our inclusive culture promotes staff engagement and enables us to attract and retain the best talent. Some of our strategies and programs include

• Merit-based recruitment practices
• Workplace adjustments for persons with disability
• Opportunities for persons of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin
• Work experience and school-based apprentice placements