Herc-Higher Education Recruitment Consortium

A higher degree of healthcare.

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.

Join our award-winning team at UW Medical Center - Northwest. Among the top medical centers in the United States as rated by U.S. News & World Report 2020-2021 "America's Best Hospitals", UW Medical Center - Montlake prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances. UW Medical Center - Montlake has again earned U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1 hospital ranking in Washington State and in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the seventh consecutive year that UW Medical Center - Montlake has achieved both distinctions.

Excellence. Exploration. Education. Become part of our team, and join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.


The University of Washington Medical Center, Northwest Campus is recruiting hourly Nursing Technicians.  Flexibility in shift availability highly desirable.

REQUIREMENTS:
•     Registered Nursing Technicians (NTs) are students enrolled in a Registered Nurse Bachelor of Science Degree program or a Registered Nurse Associate Degree program. Must be in good standing and status in the nursing program.  Candidates must have completed at least one quarter of a Clinical Rotation.
•     AHA BLS certification.
•     If offered, you must have an active Nursing Technician Registration listed on the DOH before attending the new hire orientation session.
•     School sanctioned skills checklist

In order to be considered for this opportunity, following the submission of your resume, you must complete two assessments/attachments titled:
•     US Work Authorization 11/2013
•     Criminal Conviction and Adverse Finding Disclosure - 11/2013

Please check to ensure your email address and telephone number are accurate on your complete resume.

Under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, the Nursing Technician (Nurse Tech) functions in an ancillary role to “Assist the RN in providing direct care, collect and document data gathered during the delivery of care, communicate findings and changes in patient condition to the supervising RN and collaborate with the other disciplines as appropriate to provide continuity of patient care from admission to discharge.  The Nurse Tech may perform a variety of tasks, including but not limited to, transporting patients, supplies and specimens, ordering and stocking supplies, ensuring patient safety through monitoring and assessment, safe patient mobilization and hygiene activities.

Currently planning hiring for Spring orientation:  4/20 and 4/21 (two-day orientation, approx. 3:00pm to 7:00pm both days, 5/18 and 5/19, approx. 3:00pm to 7:00pm both days and June 17, 8:00am to 4:30pm.  Interviews to occur February through May.
**These dates may be subject to change.

Basic nursing skills are REQUIRED for you to perform independently or have performed in practice/simulation or a clinical setting before you start employment.  You will be asked to provide this checklist signed by your clinical nursing instructor before being able to receive a formal offer.  The basic skills include the following:
•     Infection Control
•     Fall Precautions
•     Bed Making
•     Personal Hygiene
•     Vital Signs
•     Removal of Catheters/IVs
•     Mobilizing patients
•     Tubes and Drains
•     Feeding
•     EKGs

As a teaching hospital and research center, we are deeply committed to the enhancement of care for our patients - as well as the professional growth of our staff. As a testament to this commitment, we are proud to be recognized with Magnet Hospital status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.  In fact, we were the first hospital to receive this designation, and we continue to be the only hospital in the region with such status.  We are also consistently named one of the nation's best hospitals, as reported by U.S. News and World Report.

Such national recognition attests to our commitment to high-quality care, and to the outstanding professionalism and skill that exists at UWMC.  As a nursing technician (nurse tech), you can be a part of this highly skilled team, working within a culture that is both innovative and collaborative.  Here, you will work in tandem with physicians and other health care practitioners to provide superior, award-winning nursing care.  In short, you will not only follow best practice, but you will also create it!