Are transfers to other offices possible with Kaiser Permanente?

competitive pay, great benefits package, unionized position, transfer opportunities within and across facilities, tuition reimbursement, time off accruals

lateral transfers only for MSWs, no career ladder; no current plans for supervision for licensure; huge corporate empire; low quality EAP

Honestly, working at Kaiser has its good and bad. The pay and benefits are really good compared to a lot of other hospitals, and the union protection helps a lot. The system is organized, and if you like structure and clear rules, it can feel supportive. There are also a lot of opportunities to move into different roles like case management or outpatient without leaving the company. As long as your team on the floor is good you’ll be good.

Kaiser hospital does not make kaiser money. It actually makes them lose money overall so if you think they care about their hospitals… they don’t. All kaiser cares about it money. There is no such thing as any insurance or hospital putting you first. Once you remember that it’s an easier pill to swallow when they don’t care to really treat their long term chronically ill patients.

Compensation, flexibility, transferability and opportunity to move around

No upper leadership roles for staff with no degree even when they are experienced and better candidates with no degree.

Great pay, flexible hours, opportunities to move up

lack of communication between departments

Benefits, well compensated, union support.

Cutting staffing and corners for profit, not enough opportunity to move to other specialty areas. Depedening on management can be toxic work culture.

Offers opportunities for advancement and/or career transition within company.

Tendency to off-shore IT roles resulting in substandard results and outcomes.

The opportunities to move up within the company are there. They do like to promote from within.

Very little communication goes about what is needed to move forward or little information as to how to network within the company.

Competitive pay, transfer opportunities, flexible hours

Corporate culture of a massive company

Amazing benefits, educational resources, once you've worked for a while the PTO is great, detail-oriented people and hard workers can really stand out and shine here if you are committed to the mission

Large organization typical issues: silos, poor systems, and long-term employees with no motivation to work harder because they are 'in' can make it challenging to work/stay motivated. Talent acquisition is not well versed in some non-clinical specialties, and have a bizarre screening process that lets a lot of duds into the organization, who can be hard to get rid of. They also have a poorly designed 'Job family alignment' structure which doesn't allow you to advance within your department unless someone leaves a position. Opportunities for growth are usually available in outside departments, so you just torch all your accumulated expertise in your current area and have to re-start elsewhere if you want to advance.

Lots of opportunities to move around

Culture within each department may vary