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Benefits
UPMC wants to attract, retain, and motivate quality staff.
To this end, the system offers the following benefits:
- extremely
competitive salaries
- comprehensive
medical, vision, dental, and prescription benefits with low employee
contributions for full- and part-time staff, their spouse and family
- life
insurance, accidental death, and short- and long-term disability benefits
- paid
time off program, with hours earned immediately available for use
- seven
paid holidays each year
- tuition
assistance
- nursing
refresher course
- flexible
spending accounts for dependent care and health care
- flexible
work schedules
- Employee
Assistance Program (EAP)
-
two-pronged retirement program: the cash balance plan to which UPMC
makes annual contributions and an optional employee savings plan with
partial matched contributions from UPMC
- UPMC Perks
Discounts offered to UPMC staff and physicians on merchandise, recreation,
and services.
- Volunteer Partnerships
- New
Hire Support Program
(pdf file)
- Clinical
Advancement Program
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Tuition
Assistance
The
tuition assistance program is unique to each location with the UPMC. Contact your Human Resources representative to determine whether
your location provides a tuition assistance benefit, and if it does, your
reimbursement level.
Eligibility
includes full-time, flexible full-time, job-share and regular part-time
staff. Staff with authorized hours equal to or greater than 20 hours per
week also are eligible for the dependent/spouse tuition benefit.
UPMC's
dependent/spouse tuition program may aid dependent children or spouses
pursuing first baccalaureate degrees at the University
of Pittsburgh, community college, or health care programs at technical
schools within approved county list are eligible. Eligibility for the
program begins one year from the date of hire and for classes beginning
after that date. Dependents must attend classes on a full-time basis,
and spouses may attend part-time or full-time.
Benefit
maximums per academic year and reimbursement percentages are:
Dependents
- 50
percent cost per credit up to $5,000 for full-time staff
- 25
percent cost per credit up to $2,500 for part-time staff
Spouse
- 50
percent cost per credit up to $2,000 for full-time staff
- 25
percent cost per credit up to $1,000 for part-time staff
Staff
members are be subject to state and local tax. Dependent/spouse will be
subject to state, local, federal, and FICA tax.
For
more details on UPMC's tuition assistance program, call
1-800-994-2754, option 3.
Flexible
Work Schedules
UPMC
nurses have a wide variety of scheduling options to suit any lifestyle.
Nurses within UPMC can work full-time, part-time, or job
share. Casual nursing positions are available at most facilities, either
working as a unit-based staff nurse or in a hospital-based resource (float)
pool. UPMC also has a nursing agency, UPMC Vital Staffing,
that employs nurses on a casual basis. Nurses who work for UPMC Vital
Staffing can work at any UPMC facility, giving them the greatest scheduling
flexibility. All managers are committed to working with their staff to
allow flexibility in balancing work and family life.
Fast Track Back
If
you are a nurse who is interested in reentering the field of nursing or
transitioning to adult medical-surgical nursing, you may be eligible for
the Fast Track Back program offered by the University of Pittsburgh School
of Nursing.
The 12-day (two days a week
for six weeks) program includes a half-day of didactic, a half-day of
experience with the simulator, and one day of precepted experience each
week.
The cost for the program
is $1,000 for current UPMC nurses or $1,200 for non-UPMC nurses. For further
information or to register, contact Dr. Lisa Bernardo, Director at 412-624-7637 or
via e-mail at lbe100@pitt.edu.
Nursing
Refresher Course
If you are a nurse who has not had recent clinical experience (within the last three to five years) and you are looking to return to bedside nursing, UPMC suggests that you take a nursing refresher course. Community
College of Allegheny County (CCAC) offers a refresher course. To find out more, please call 412-394-6903.
Employee
Assistance Program (EAP)
EAP
Solutions, part of UPMC
Work Partners, is one of the oldest established programs of its kind
in western Pennsylvania. The company is the EAP provider for UPMC and more than 30 other organizations.
EAP Solutions is committed to providing expert clinical, educational,
and consultative services for resolving personal or work-related problems.
Some
examples of the most common reasons employees contact the EAP include:
- family
or marital issues
- depression
and anxiety
- drug
or alcohol abuse
- stress
- work-related
concern
These
confidential services are free to UPMC staff.
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