Lee Health | Diversity Employer
Explore career paths and job opportunities at Southwest Florida’s premier community-owned health system.
Your new career begins here
Together, we are more than 13,130 employees, 4,500 volunteers, and 1,480 physicians strong and growing. We listen to your ideas and suggestions, value honesty, and communication, treat everyone with dignity and respect. We provide opportunities for growth and career development and empower employees to do their best. Join us!
What it's like to work at Lee Health?
Find out what it's like to be a part of our team. Browse Lee Health employee benefits and hear about the experience of living and working in our Southwest Florida community.
Employee Benefit Programs
Lee Health wants to ensure your quality of life on and off the clock. As the largest health care provider in Southwest Florida, we offer several programs to support your personal and professional development.
Employee benefits we offer:
- Free onsite Employee Health services
- Employee discounts to area businesses and attractions
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health care flexible spending account
- Mail-Order Pharmacy
- Onsite child daycare centers
- Onsite U.S. Post Offices
- Onsite wellness centers
- Educational assistance
- Onsite educational opportunities
- Free employee flu shots
- Employee award and reward programs
- Payroll deductions for gift shops and automobile insurance
- Discounted meals in the cafeterias
- Free health risk assessments for qualifying employees
- Transitional Work Program
- HeroCare discounted housing program
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Insurance
- Career Development
Career Pathing programs
Lee Health also offers information, advice, educational programs, resources, and training opportunities to assist you in achieving your career goals. We believe in encouraging staff members to pursue their professional goals, because we know that supporting our staff enhances our mission for excellence in patient care.
Career Pathing programs we offer:
- Career Assessment Program (CAP)
An online assessment followed by a one-on-one consultation that is free to employees and is used to assess how well an employee’s interest would apply to a career within Lee Health.
- School at Work (SAW)
A bridge program that prepares entry-level employees for better-paying jobs and for entrance to local community colleges.
- Professional Nursing Advancement Program (PNAP)
Designed to recognize and reward the clinical expertise, contributions, and professional career advancement of registered nurses. The PNAP is based on Patricia Benner’s “Novice to Expert” model of nursing practice and allows nurses to be recognized based on the scope and level of their practice. The RN moves through stages of development from novice to expert based on experience, acquisition of knowledge, and development of skills.
Continuing Education
Lee Health’s educational departments provide continuing education opportunities. In addition, medical libraries are located throughout the System for the professional growth of employees.
Our Medical Libraries:
- Medical-Surgical
- Progressive Care
- Intensive Care
- Emergency Department
- Maternal-Child
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Pediatric
- Oncology/Hematology
- Neuroscience
Staff Activities
Lee Health helps maintain a work/life balance by offering events through our Staff Activities Committee. These events give our employees a chance to spend time with fellow co-workers and their families away from the work environment. Staff Activities offers a variety of events such as family entertainment, sports, vacations/trips, and tickets to local and statewide attractions.
Example events:
- Hertz Arena shows (concerts, ice shows, circus, etc.)
- Football - Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Baseball - Boston Red Sox Spring Training, Tampa Bay Rays
- Racing - Daytona
- Hockey - Everblades
- Vacations/Trips
- Cruises - day and extended
- Bus trips - Sawgrass Mills Shopping, Local and Statewide Attractions, SunSplash Water Park, isney, Universal Studios, Busch Gardens, etc.
Diversity at Lee Health
Our differences make us better
What do we get when you put Diverse and Lee Health together?
We get talented employees who work each day to ensure that our care is equally detail-oriented and culturally respectful for each patient we serve.
We get an organization that is committed to its community by investing in training and professional development opportunities for our employees. We teach our employees to not only embrace each other and our patients' individuality but to also find the similarities that we all share.
We get an organization that strives to show respect by applying dignity in each interaction, understanding that with dignity, you elevate respect.
You get to work for an organization that understands and embraces a community that puts diversity and inclusion into practice.
You get DiverseLee!
At DiverseLee, we strive to be a community that puts diversity and inclusion into practice every day, for every patient.
Lee Health Makes Forbes Best Employers for Diversity List
Lee Health’s diversity is recognized among some of the largest and most recognizable companies, including Coca-Cola, Apple, Amazon.com, Walt Disney, and Starbucks, as part of Forbes magazine’s “America’s Best Employers for Diversity 2018” list. Lee Health ranked 58 out of 250 companies and is the ninth highest-ranked health care provider and the second-highest ranked organization in Florida for diversity.
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