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At Northside Hospital, we value our employees’ professional experience and their lives outside of work. We care for our patients AND our employees by providing comprehensive benefits for work, life, and play. We prioritize peace of mind and wellbeing, demonstrated in the benefits we offer to employees. Hear from our team members who have first-hand experience with the benefits of working at Northside.
At Northside, we’re all about family. We support our employees as they grow their families by offering a fertility planning benefit through Progyny. Ally, supervisor for speech pathology services, used Progyny to help with the in-vitro fertilization process, and she found that the patient advocates were extremely helpful and made the process easy to understand.
“The best part about it was that I had help throughout the whole process,” she explained. “The benefit provided financial assistance, guidance on procedures, information, videos on administering medications, and more. When you’re undergoing something as complex as IVF, it’s helpful to have videos, articles, and someone you can call.”
The Progyny benefit changed Ally’s life for the better. “My wife and I would not have been able to start our family without it. It’s completely improved our lives, and we are so incredibly grateful. I truly cherish Northside and the value they place on their employees.”
Nothing’s more important than ensuring our children are cared for, loved, and safe. We’re proud to support working parents by providing childcare options.
Kristi, manager of legal services, shared her experience with the Child Development Center.
The Center offers classes from six weeks old through pre-K and summer camps. Both her children started at the Center as infants, and she loved having her kids on campus with her for many reasons, including that it streamlined the drop-off and pick-up process. “When I’d get the inevitable call that my child is sick, I could be with them in just a few minutes,” she explained.
Kristi found the tuition of the Child Development Center to be extremely reasonable compared to other childcare options in the Atlanta metro area, and she noted that the class sizes are small with great teacher-child ratios. “Tuition was taken out of my paycheck, and the Center was always accommodating with my schedule,” she said.
Though it was hard to hand over control to another caregiver when her children were babies, Kristi felt comforted that they were in loving hands, even during uncertain times. “When the pandemic hit, there were so many unknowns, and it was a difficult decision to keep my children in care outside the home. But it was absolutely the right choice for our family. I’m not sure how I would have gotten through working full-time during the pandemic without the Center,” she said. “My children loved going to the Center every day and made wonderful friends along the way.”
Kristi said the preschool prepared her son well for pre-K and kindergarten. “The STEM activities and phonics work they did prepared him for early reading!” The Center is also equipped with a great playground. Even though the Center is a lot of fun for kids, there are perks for the parents, too. Kristi said, “I made friends with some of the parents of my children’s classmates, and in some instances, I wound up working alongside them as colleagues.”
Giving back to the community is a big deal at Northside, so we provide opportunities for our employees to get involved through the Northside Hospital Foundation!
The program helps employees who may be having a hard time, as well as women facing breast cancer, miracle babies, and more. Volunteers work closely with the Foundation’s coordinator, who sends requests ahead of events asking for volunteers. The volunteers fill out forms noting their preferences for times, tasks, and shifts.
Stephanie, marketing specialist for the Northside Hospital Sleep Disorders Center, has volunteered many times with the program. “The volunteer coordinator, Ana, does her best to place volunteers at their desired location for their desired time. My three favorite events are The Foundation Charity Golf Tournament, Tennis Against Breast Cancer, and Wine, Women & Shoes. The events always fill up fast, though, so you have to fill out the volunteer interest form fast to guarantee your spot!”
Stephanie’s favorite part of the volunteering benefit is the people. “The people at Northside Hospital’s Foundation are more than co-workers – they’re true friends! I’ve met and become friends with people I would never have met without volunteering,” she said. “The opportunities and relationships I have developed through this program are immeasurable. Plus, it’s a great feeling to meet people you’ve helped. I’m truly thankful to Ana and the staff at the Foundation for trusting me to help with their events.”
Financial wellbeing is another way Northside supports our employees, and our Student Loan Repayment Program allows our employees to enjoy extra assistance in paying their student loans – freeing up funds for educational growth or for their personal budget.
Tamara, senior employment recruiter, said that the Student Loan Repayment Program is the perfect example of the organizational values, commitment, and recognition Northside provides to its employees. “I personally feel supported because it clearly demonstrates that my employer cares about my financial well-being,” she said. “It’s definitely had a positive impact on me. The additional assistance has provided financial freedom and allowed me to pay off my loan much faster.” The Student Loan Repayment Program has provided Tamara peace of mind and long-term financial stability.
At Northside, we believe in caring for our employees as we care for our patients. From childcare benefits to the Student Loan Repayment Program, we want to help our employees achieve a rewarding balance at work and outside of work. You can become part of our team, too. Search our available opportunities and apply today! Experience the benefits we offer for yourself.
Northside Hospital is pleased to be recognized by workplace culture and compensation monitoring site Comparably for Best Company Culture, Best Company for Women, and Best Company for Diversity.
The annual “Best” lists compiled by Comparably are based on anonymous employee ratings in different categories, such as work-life balance, compensation, leadership, and more. We were ranked alongside top large employers (more than 500 employees) across the United States.
We’re also honored to have received the distinction of being a 2023 Forbes America’s Best-in-State Employer for Georgia.
Northside is one of Atlanta’s premier healthcare systems, and we support high standards for quality and excellence so our patients get the compassionate care they deserve. We’re united in caring for our communities, and as a result we have a culture that empowers and engages our team so they can shine and do their best work. We value our team, which is why we offer benefits for work, life, and play to promote their overall well-being.
For more information about Comparably’s Best Places to Work lists and to view the complete list of winners, visit comparably.com.
At Northside Hospital, we respect the fact that our employees have lives outside of work. We want our team to be happy both at work and at home, so we offer benefits that support work-life balance and overall wellness. Here’s how Niecy, one of our amazing Surgical Tech Educators, experiences work-life balance and employee appreciation at Northside.
“I love the way Northside helps their employees reach a healthy work/life balance,” Niecy says. “It’s not all work and no fun. For example, one great thing the employees love is Northside Night at the fair in Cumming, Georgia. On opening night, all Northside employees get in free and can ride the rides as much as they want.”
We know that it’s important to have “me-time” away from work to recharge and decompress, which is why we give our team plenty of opportunities for time off. Niecy describes herself as an introvert, so with her free time, she enjoys relaxing at home, binge-watching shows, or reading a good book. When she wants to have a day outside, she likes to go hiking and explore places she hasn’t hiked before. “I usually go hiking with a coworker who knows a lot of the good spots that have great scenery like waterfalls, which I love,” Niecy explains.
Family is also something we take seriously, and we’re happy that our employees have time to spend with their loved ones. Niecy and her daughter enjoy ordering out seafood, their favorite, and watching good movies together. “It doesn’t get any better than that!” Niecy says. Another pastime Niecy enjoys is working out at the gym, which she usually does in the morning before work. “There are times in the evening, though, when I get to work out with my partner in crime, my daughter.”
Something that goes hand-in-hand with work-life balance is employee appreciation, which we as a Northside family are passionate about. We celebrate Surgical Services Week, where we recognize our employees with gifts, treats, breakfasts, and lunches that are served to them by leaders and management.
We also look after our employees’ health through efforts like breast cancer awareness and cancer screening. “Also, during flu season, there’s always a cart floating around for the convenience of employees to get their seasonal flu shot,” Niecy adds. “They look out for our well-being and make sure that as we take care of others, they in turn take care of us. Northside knows how to show appreciation to their employees, and not many people can say that about their employers. I’m proud to say that about mine.”
It warms our hearts to hear that one of our teammates feels that way about us, and we are so grateful to have incredible professionals like Niecy working with us! We couldn’t do what we do without them. You can experience Northside’s work-life balance for yourself by joining our team! Search our available roles and apply today. We’d love to have you.
Northside Hospital offers a wide variety of career advantages for anyone looking to make a difference in others’ lives. As one of metro-Atlanta’s premier healthcare systems, with a team of 25,000+, we unite some of the region’s most highly skilled professionals who share a passion for quality and excellence. We were honored to be included in Forbes’ list of the 2023 Best Employers in Georgia.
Here are five reasons to Look to Northside:
Northside provides an exceptional environment for you to grow, learn, and thrive. With the combination of our culture of care, leading-edge technology, our collaborative team, research and growth opportunities, and supportive community with great pay and benefits, Northside is the ideal place to work and grow your career.
Join us to do the best work of your life. Visit myNorthsideCareer to register for our Career Center, if you haven’t already, and learn more about our opportunities in your specialty, hiring events, and more.
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Northside Hospital offers a supportive and flexible environment to utilize your respiratory skills, and expand your respiratory therapy career. As a premier healthcare system with a team of 25,000 and growing, we hire highly skilled respiratory therapists who practice in a variety of specialties.
We are honored to be recognized as a 2023 Forbes America’s Best-in-State Employer for Georgia! Our high standards for quality and excellence are driven by our entire team.
Northside is committed to a positive and collaborative work environment. We offer the best in care to our patients and their families, because we hire the best. We are invested in our care teams and strive to offer opportunities to help you grow your career as a respiratory therapist.
Here are five reasons why respiratory therapists choose Northside:
Northside provides an exceptional environment for respiratory therapists like you to expand your experience, learn, and thrive in your professional calling. Look to Northside for a diverse culture of care and collaboration, along with great pay and benefits.
Join us to do the best work of your life. Visit myNorthsideCareer to register on our Career Center, if you haven’t already, and learn more about Respiratory Therapy opportunities in your specialty, dynamic hiring events, and more.
Search for Respiratory Therapist Jobs and apply today.
Northside Hospital offers a supportive and flexible environment for nursing professionals to make the most of their abilities and compassion, as they learn and grow in their careers. As a premier healthcare system in metro-Atlanta, with a team of 25,000+, we unite the region’s most highly skilled nurses with exceptional patient care teams to do their best work. Northside Hospital is honored to win the prestigious Nurse Satisfaction award from Becker’s.
We are also honored to be recognized as a 2023 Forbes America’s Best-in-State Employer for Georgia! Our high standards for quality and excellence are driven by the entire Northside team.
We are committed to a positive work environment and are always looking for nurses to join our culture of care. We have a diverse range of nurse specialties and locations to choose from, in and around Atlanta, for your convenience. Northside understands that you chose the path of nursing for a reason; to fulfill a purpose and to answer your calling.
We offer the best in care to our patients and their families because we hire the best patient care and nursing professionals. We are invested in our care teams and strive to offer opportunities to help you design your nurse career your way.
Here are five reasons why the best nurses choose Northside:
Our collaborative team atmosphere makes us a great place to help others while supporting your own well-being, allowing you to feel good and know you are doing your best work! With five campuses in metro-Atlanta, it’s easy to choose a Northside facility that is close to home to avoid the stress of long commutes. MARTA offers rapid transit to our Sandy Springs locations, or you can consider ride-sharing with co-workers.
Northside Hospital provides an exceptional environment for nursing professionals who want to grow, learn, and thrive with us. Our culture of care, diverse practice opportunities, supportive community, and great pay and benefits, make Northside an ideal place to design your nursing career, your way.
Choose the specialty of your choice and the shifts that work for your life. Join Atlanta’s most preferred hospital for an elite career experience, building the future of healthcare together with patient-centered care.
Join us to do the best work of your career. Visit myNorthsideCareer to register on our Career Center, and learn more about nursing opportunities in your specialty, hiring events, and more.
Search nursing jobs and apply today!
Thanks to our employees’ honest feedback, Northside Hospital can proudly claim the distinction of being a 2023 Forbes America’s Best-in-State Employer for Georgia! We pride ourselves on creating a positive work environment for our exceptional team so they feel empowered and engaged to do the best work of their lives.
Forbes surveyed 70,000 workers across the U.S. at companies, which led to our award as the No. 4 overall employer in Georgia and the top hospital in our state. Participants were asked to evaluate their employer based on working conditions, diversity, compensation packages, potential for development, company image and more.
It’s safe to say that our team sees our mission and goal in various aspects at Northside. We’re committed to the betterment of our caregivers in and out of the workplace by providing competitive benefits and a supportive environment. It’s because of our high standards for quality and excellence and the amazing team to exceed those expectations that we have earned multiple awards and recognitions over the years.
For more information about the 2023 Forbes survey of America’s Best Employers By State, visit: https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-employers-by-state/?sh=20cd33441983
Join our award-winning team by searching our available jobs today
Making a career change can be a lot to think about. However, becoming a Med Surg RN with Northside comes with a lot of advantages, and it might just be the perfect career move for you!
If you’re entertaining a transition to Med Surg, here are just a few of the benefits to consider…
The Pros of Working as a Med Surg RN at Northside:
1. Making a difference.
As a nurse in Med Surg, you make a huge difference in people’s lives. Our amazing nurses are committed to our patients and their families, and we value collaboration, communication, coordination, integration, and empowerment. You’ll be able to practice and develop strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills, and you’ll experience variety in your patient population while making personal connections. Med Surg is a great choice if you’re looking for a career in which you can deliver personalized patient care while enhancing your nursing skills.
2. Our culture.
At Northside, we pride ourselves on building an empowering, inclusive workplace culture. We are all about providing compassionate support, and that means support for our employees as well as our patients. We want our team members to feel engaged and empowered to do their best work, which is crucial since Med Surg involves interacting closely with your patients and their families.
3. Specialized Med Surg areas.
Northside has many specialized Med Surg areas, so you’ll get to work with a variety of patients while you focus on a specific type of care – for example, post-surgical, general medicine, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, bariatrics, neuroscience, cardiac/telemetry, orthopedics, urology, and more. You can also explore other Med Surg units by floating between them.
4. State-of-the-art facilities.
You can enjoy the state-of-the-art facilities at Northside when you work with our team. Having access to great equipment allows you to give the best possible nursing care to your patients, so we’re happy to provide it!
5. Tuition Reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment, and Professional Development.
Education is crucial when you work in nursing, which is why Northside offers opportunities for professional growth, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment. We want you to focus on being the best Med Surg nurse.
Northside also offers Med Surg Certification, a Nursing Excellence Track, and Unit-Based Leadership opportunities so you can grow in your nursing career. In addition, Northside’s Student Loan Repayment Opportunity benefit provides monthly reimbursement of up to a lifetime maximum of $10,000. Along with the loan repayment program, Tuition Reimbursement can help you grow your career with education while limiting your out-of-pocket expenses.
6. Benefits & wages.
Working at Northside means that you’ll have access to comprehensive benefits that can help you care for your family now and in the future. You’ll also be well-compensated with competitive wages, great benefits & retirement plans, including a pension! The pension benefits start on day one, build a guaranteed stream of income for retirement. It costs employees nothing and is automatic, and it continues long as you are working at Northside at least 1,000 hours.
Med Surg isn’t just a starting point – it’s a place where nurses can build their long-term career. At Northside, we provide award-winning patient care, and we offer award-winning careers. We would be delighted for you to join our family as part of our Med Surg team. Learn more about career opportunities at Northside today!
Ever since starting in 2014, Registered Nurse Michele Scarborough has found her career at Northside Hospital to be rewarding professionally and personally. The personal warmth of Northside culture was evident immediately. Michele says, “We had just moved to Georgia and had no family here. The staff at Roswell GI lab became like family to me!”
She also remembers the kindness she encountered when interviewing for her clinician position at Northside Forsyth. “I was in the wrong building and had no idea where I was going. I ran into the nicest employee who walked me over to where I needed to be. I was so
grateful!” Michele says. “To me, that is the typical Northside employee, willing to go above and beyond to help out a coworker, patient, family—anyone.”
The professional rewards of working at Northside have been just as abundant.
When looking to take her career in a different direction in 2019, Michele transferred to the Northside Forsyth Surgical Services Education Department. “ I love training new staff and helping current staff Pigure out the best ways to do things. This job is a perfect Pit,” Michele
says. “When a new hire or a new transfer tells me ‘thank you,’ it really makes me feel proud of what we do here.”
Of course, she’s faced her share of challenges, too, with COVID being at the top of the list. Michele says, “I started right before COVID – and that changed my position so much. I was helping to run COVID testing in the parking garage and stepping in as an interim leader in our pre-surgery clinic departments—and that’s in addition to my ‘usual’ responsibilities. There is never a dull moment!”
Michele credits strong Northside support and leadership with getting her through the tough times and beyond. “I absolutely love working for surgical services. We have hands down the most supportive and best leadership. They’ve inspired me and helped me grow so much,” Michele says.
When she looks back on the past eight years at Northside, Michele notes that, “I feel so fortunate I was able to start with such a great organization. I work with the best and brightest – and I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of this team.”
Michele continues to Pind the Northside culture the ideal environment for ongoing professional success and rich relationships with her colleagues. “ My coworkers have become like second families to me. I mean, we voluntarily eat lunch together every day. How many coworkers can say that!”
Every day, Northside Hospital’s physicians, nurses, and other clinical and non-clinical professionals face some of the most significant medical challenges imaginable while providing the highest level of skilled, compassionate patient care. These situations create a great deal of physical stress and strain. Patient care can take a tremendous psychological and emotional toll on the caregiver. The circumstances of the past several years have only increased the pressures these tirelessly dedicated healthcare heroes face.
How do we ensure that those who strive so hard to care for others receive the care they need and deserve?
That’s where Northside Hospital’s STAR (Striving To Achieve Resilience) program comes in. Modeled after the Resilience in Stressful Events team at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the STAR program establishes a framework and culture where our employees can provide skilled, nonjudgmental, and confidential support to other Northside employees and employee groups.
How does STAR work? This unique program facilitates the development of peer-responders within Northside who will deliver psychological first aid and emotional support to their fellow teammates following complex work-related events. Peer-responders are given comprehensive training to ensure they have the competence and confidence to help those suffering from work-related issues such as burnout, self-doubt, and more.
The STAR program is one of the ways in which we cultivate a caring, supportive environment for our employees. But it doesn’t stop there:
We understand the need because we have been there and want to be sure we support our dedicated caregivers in every way.
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