Benefits at VNSNY

At the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, our employees are our most valuable asset, so we’re looking for the best people to join our team. Why work for VNSNY? We know your career goals are important to you, but they’re not the only important thing, so we provide a well-rounded employment experience, competitive compensation and generous benefits package to meet your needs. VNSNY is committed to helping you make progress toward a healthy future.

In addition to a benefits package including comprehensive health care benefits, we offer retirement options, pre-tax flexible spending accounts, disability coverage, wellness programs, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement and much more.

Career and Professional Skills Development

Management Development Program
Management Building Blocks Series includes five courses required for all newly promoted and hired people managers and supervisors. These course are designed to provide our staff who supervise employees with a more structured developmental experience. They include tools to successfully navigate from individual contributor to manager of people, as well as critical information around VNSNY policy, procedures, and regulations.

New Leader Assimilation
Session for new hires with more than four direct reports to support quicker and stronger leader and team assimilation. The objectives of this session are to support the team in gaining new insight about the leader as a person, and as a leader, to enable the team to share needs, questions and/or concerns in a safe, confidential way so that the new leader can address and support the team’s success going forward, and to expedite the time it takes for the team to establish itself as a performing team.

Personal Leadership Study Groups
These 90-minute discussions focus on a leadership topic and a selected book or set of articles. Participants are provided with a copy of the readings ahead of time and are invited to a lively discussion and application session.

Performance Management
Our performance management process ensures that performance contributes to individual, team, and department success. This ongoing process offers an opportunity for employees and supervisors to provide each other with feedback about performance, goals, and development plans for the coming year. What makes up Performance Management at VNSNY?

Goal Setting
Self-Appraisal, Manager’s Overall Evaluation, and Performance Discussion
Ongoing Feedback and Coaching

Clinical Orientation and Skills Development

Regardless of your clinical specialty, you'll participate in an orientation program that will help prepare you for your role. You will receive the foundation of a strong orientation to VNSNY and ongoing professional development, whether in a classroom, online, or under the guidance of your manager. And our generous tuition reimbursement policy provides financial support for undergraduate, graduate, and professional certification studies pursued outside of the organization.

New Employee Orientation and Onboarding

To help all employees succeed, VNSNY provides the right tools: a solid orientation and VNSNY's special Onboarding process to get you grounded; continual support and resources to address immediate questions; and training and development opportunities that prepare you for today’s demands and tomorrow’s rewards.

Health/ Welfare

VNSNY offers comprehensive benefits to help you take charge of your health and that of your family — and financial protection in the event of death or disability.

Health care

Three medical options – Two PPO options through Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and an HMO option through HIP-EmblemHealth
Vision benefits included with medical
Dental coverage through Delta Dental
Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts

Health and wellness

Online wellness center
Well-being assessments
Health coaching
Smoking cessation program
Wellness fairs

Life and Disability

Company-paid group life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage
Company-paid short-term disability benefits
Company-paid long term disability benefits
Supplemental long-term disability benefits
Workers’ compensation

Work-Life Balance

VNSNY knows that our employees have aspirations and needs that go beyond their careers. We try to provide programs to help you balance your personal and professional goals, including:

Paid time off (vacation and holidays)
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Pre-tax commuter benefit
Tuition reimbursement
Health and fitness discounts
Credit union membership
Flu vaccines

Retirement

VNSNY offers two opportunities to help you save for retirement.

The Retirement Savings Plan, which enables you to save three ways: your own after-tax contributions, VNSNY’s matching contribution, VNSNY’s annual basic contribution.

The (403)b Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plan where you can make before-tax contributions, so you can save for your future while saving on taxes.

Employees represented by a collective bargaining agreement should review their agreement or contact the union for benefit information.