Cabrini Health Pay Rates 2026: Nurses, Allied Health & Support Staff Pay

Cabrini is a Catholic not-for-profit private health service in Melbourne's south-east, with its main hospital in Malvern plus Brighton, palliative care, rehabilitation and residential care services. Nurses, allied health professionals and hospital support staff make up most of its several thousand employees.

Cabrini has its own enterprise agreements by stream (below), sitting above the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (tabled) and the Nurses Award. The support and allied health award ladder is the floor every Cabrini agreement must beat.

The federal awards relevant to Cabrini Health roles:

• Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027)
• Nurses Award 2020 (MA000034)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Cabrini Australia Limited declared 4,902 employees across 2 reporting entities — 20.8% casual and 70.1% women, with 231 in management roles. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027) adult minimums for the roles that sit on it are:

Nurses and midwives are on the Nurses Award 2020 instead — current classification and pay-point figures are on our Nurses Award pay rates page. Weekend, shift and public holiday penalties apply on top of the figures above.

Source: Fair Work Commission modern awards pay database, current-operative rates (1 July 2026 annual wage review). Casual figures add the 25% casual loading.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current Cabrini Health agreements in our corpus (3 in total):

• Cabrini Nurses and Midwives Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved April 2026, nominal expiry 31 October 2027.
• Cabrini Medical Scientists, Dietitians, Pharmacists and Psychologists Agreement 2024 — approved November 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.
• Cabrini Health, Health Professionals Agreement 2023 — approved January 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.

We don't reproduce agreement dollar figures here — the agreement covering your site, state and stream is the document to read. Find your agreement, then your classification, then your pay point, and compare it with your payslip. The award tables on this page are the floor every one of these agreements must beat.

General award-compliance issues that come up across the hospital sector. This is a checklist for your own payslip, not a finding about Cabrini Health:

• Frozen pay points — increments that should step annually but don't, especially after payroll migrations.
• Stream misclassification — admin, ward-support and collector staff left at Level 1–2 while doing Level 3 work.
• Unpaid handover — clinical and shift handover before and after rostered hours is work time.
• Weekend and night loadings dropped when rosters change or systems are replaced.

Match your payslip to your classification in the agreement (or the award tables above), and price any gap with our back-pay calculator. Raise it in writing with payroll or your manager first — most underpayments are fixed at that step. Unresolved, the Fair Work Ombudsman (13 13 94) recovers underpayments at no cost, up to six years back, and your union can run the claim for you. Not sure which instrument covers you? Ask our AI advisor with your role and location.