Supplementary funding is available where clinical loadings are insufficient to cover the gap between academic salaries and those paid to hospital specialists.

1. DEEWR funds
2. Full-time clinical academics
3. Eligible schools
4. Ineligible
5. Affected schools
6. The State
7. Study leave
8. Superannuable
9. Salary movements
10. Payment

DEEWR funds

Clinical loadings funded by DEEWR (the Department of Education, Employment and Worksplace Relations) are insufficient to cover the gap between academic salaries and those paid to hospital specialists. Consequently agreement was reached to supplement salaries paid to certain clinical academics. The supplementation is funded by the WA State Government and paid through the teaching hospitals. Not all staff who receive the DEEWR-funded clinical loading are eligible to receive the supplementary clinical allowance.

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Full-time clinical academics

The supplementary clinical allowance will normally be paid to full-time clinical academics. The allowance will not be paid to clinical academics who are employed on a part-time basis by the University and who then engage in private practice or work on a sessional basis for hospitals.

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Eligible schools

Clinical academics who are employed in the following Schools within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and who engage in clinical work for a teaching hospital, will receive the allowance.

• Medicine and Pharmacology
• Women's and Infants' Health
• Paediatrics and Child Health
• Surgery
• Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Clinical academics employed in the following school within the Faculty of Science who engage in clinical work for a teaching hospital will receive the allowance:

• Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Ineligible

The allowance will not be paid to preclinical, social and preventative medicine and general practice academics.

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Affected schools

The schools in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry which employ medically qualified academics affected by this are:

• Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care
• Population Health

The school in the Faculty of Science which employs medically qualified academics affected by this is:

• Chemistry and Biochemistry

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The State

The WA State Government will not be responsible for funding the supplementary clinical allowance for clinical academic positions which are funded by the following organisations. (In most cases the organisations have funded the allowance.)

• Australian Cancer Research Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• Lions Eye Institute
• Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation
• Public Health Association of Australia
• National Heart Foundation
• National Health and Medical and Rheumatism Foundation
• Department of Veterans' Affairs
• Hollywood Private Hospital
• Centre for Applied Cancer Studies

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Study leave

The supplementary clinical allowance is payable during study leave .

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Superannuable

Schools must advise Human Resources if staff are to receive the Supplementary Clinical Loading.

The supplementary clinical allowance is superannuable.

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Salary movements

The allowance will be adjusted to reflect movements in salary and loading paid to hospital and university staff.

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Payment

The allowance shall be paid fortnightly including during absences on approved annual, sick, long service leave and conference leave (up to the equivalent leave entitlements of a full time member of the hospital staff), but not where the monetary value of such leave is paid on resignation, retirement or dismissal and is calculated as follows:

Professor (Level E)

The difference between 105% of the base rate for a full time Consultant (Year 8) Level 22 less leave loading and the base salary plus maximum clinical loading paid to a professor (Level E).

Associate Professor (Level D)

The difference between 95% of the base rate for a full time Consultant (Year 8) Level 22 less leave loading and the base salary plus maximum clinical loading paid to an associate professor (Level D).

Senior Lecturer (Level C)

The difference between 85% of the base rate for a full time Consultant (Year 8) Level 22 less leave loading and the base salary plus maximum clinical loading paid to a senior lecturer (Level C).

Lecturer (Level B)

The difference between 80% of the base rate for a full time Consultant (Year 8) Level 22 less leave loading and the base salary plus maximum clinical loading paid to a lecturer (Level B).

Others

For sub-professorial academic staff the composite salary package (base UWA salary + clinical loading + special clinical allowance) shall not exceed the salary of a full time Consultant at the equivalent level.

The composite salary for a lecturer (Level B) shall not exceed that for a senior lecturer (Level C) and the composite salary for a senior lecturer (Level C) shall not exceed that for an associate professor (Level D).

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