The Northwell Career Experience
Inspiring and enabling our team members to reach their full potential
Northwell Health 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 all 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.
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:
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
2,000+ 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
12,000+ online courses accessible for every team member
