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The Northwell Career Experience

Inspiring and enabling our team members to reach their full potential

Careers Well Cared For

As Diversity Inc.’s #1 Hospital and Health System, Northwell is committed to investing in the professional development and growth of our team members so they can be their best, achieve their career goals and work in an environment where everyone feels welcomed, heard and valued for their contributions. The Northwell Career Experience is intended to inspire and empower our team members through supportive conversations, collaborative partnerships, a growth mindset and purposeful planning—whether it’s growing in their current role or exploring a new one. This is the Northwell Career Experience our new hires can expect from us.

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Career experience

Learn what it means to be part of Northwell Health when it comes to your career growth and professional development. Discover a career well cared for.

See below for some of the many ways in which we support the career experience at Northwell for our team members:

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Clear Career Paths

At Northwell, we have one consistent career architecture that organizes jobs into career paths to enable for career development and career advancement. At Northwell, there are 29 professions, more than 360 different areas of specialization, and 2,000+ job titles and descriptions — all within one organization!

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Internal Careers Portal

Our team members have access to an online portal just for them—enabling them to easily explore career interests, opportunities, resources and get inspired by employee stories. Team members can create their own talent profile to update education, certifications, and career goals, and sign up for job alerts to be notified when a role of interest is available.

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Career Conversations

Leaders and team members have tools that enable them to engage in ongoing career conversations and performance discussions in support of growth, development and career aspirations.

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Mentoring Programs

With numerous specialized mentorship programs across the health system, mentoring, coaching and sponsorship of team members provides the opportunity to learn and develop with other professionals in our organization.

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Education

Whether enrolling in one of the many professional development workshops, taking a class at one of our schools, or going back to school with the support of our tuition reimbursement, there are many ways for team members to develop and advance their skills.

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Career Movement

Clear guidelines and policies to guide career movement across Northwell makes it easier to follow career interests, whether that is being your best in your role, growing on your current path or embracing new paths.

Discover the possibilities

Our team members raise the standard of care for our patients while we raise the standard of care for them.

29 professions
available across Northwell alone

360+ different career areas of specialization

2000+ different job titles

9 Northwell “schools”

More than 60 mentorship, high-potential development and diverse leadership programs

More than $22.4 million spent annually on team member education and school partnerships

187,000 course hours for team members through Northwell’s Center for Learning and Innovation

16,000+ online courses accessible for every team member through LinkedIn Learning

See the many ways and professions in which to grow your career with Northwell

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Career blogs

We support the personal and professional growth of every Northwell team member, knowing that growth has a different meaning for everyone based on individual career interests and lifestyles. Read our blogs below to learn more about growing with Northwell.