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CAREERS
When you choose a career with Texas
Children’s, you’re choosing to work hard for the children and
families we serve. Besides offering competitive salaries, we reward
you with a comprehensive benefits package that is in line with other
high-performing organizations and offers choices to fit your needs.
Texas Children’s is committed to providing employees with
opportunities that promote and protect their financial stability.
The benefits listed below are for Texas
Children's Hospital, Texas Children's Pediatric Associates, Texas Children's Health Centers and Texas
Children's Health Plan employees.
- Competitive base salaries, including
differentials and call pay for certain positions
- Merit increases competitive with the
health-care industry average
- Incentive pay programs
- Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) savings plan with match program
- Texas Children’s will match your
pre-tax contributions as per plan limit
- Hospital-sponsored pension plan
- Banking discounts and credit union
services
- The EARN Program: Everyone’s
A Recruiter Now
- An employee referral financial
reward and recognition program
Medical, dental and vision benefit
coverage begins on your date of hire—no waiting-period. We also
offer part-time employees the option to cover their dependents.
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Texas Children’s takes great pride in
providing a competitive, leading-edge employee benefits program. Our
program is designed for the benefit of our employees – it offers
flexibility, choice and value.
Two medical plan options are available:
- A Point of Service (POSII)
with in-network and out-of-network benefits
- Comprehensive network of
physicians, specialists and hospitals
- Office visits with co-pay
- Preventive care
- Immunizations
- Pharmacy benefits
- Health Maintenance Organization
(HMO)
- Comprehensive network of
physicians, specialist and hospitals
- No deductibles or claim forms
- Office visits with co-pay
- Preventive care including eye
examination
- Immunizations
- Pharmacy benefits
Contributions made on a pre-tax basis,
thus reducing your taxable income
Two dental plan options are available:
- Traditional indemnity plan
- Preventive services covered at 100
percent
- Basic services covered at 80
percent with $50 deductible
- Major services covered at 50
percent with a $50 deductible
- Orthodontic benefits for children
- Dental Maintenance Organization (DMO)
- Preventive services covered at 100
percent
- Co-pay only for basic and major
services
- Orthodontic benefits for adults
and children
Contributions made on a pre-tax basis,
thus reducing your taxable income
Two Vision plan options are available:
- Network discount
- Eye exams covered at 100%
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Employer-paid basic life and basic accidental death and
dismemberment benefits to full-time and part-time employees.
- Coverage equal to annual base salary
- Additional levels of supplemental
coverage paid by employee available
- Dependent child life and spouse
life available
Basic long-term disability coverage for
full-time employees
- Coverage equal to 50 percent of
annual base salary
- Additional levels of
supplemental coverage available
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Two flexible spending accounts are
available to eligible employees - Health Care and Dependent Care.
Money put in either account is contributed on a pre-tax basis, thus
reducing your taxable income.
Health Care
- Pre-tax savings for expenses not
covered by your insurance (i.e., co-payments for office visits,
prescriptions, eye glasses, dental, over-the-counter medications)
- Minimum contribution $5 a pay period
- Maximum contribution $5,000 annually
Dependent Day Care
Designed to help employees with dependent
day care expenses necessitated
by their work schedules.
- Licensed nursery school, day care
center for children under the age 13 or care for a disabled
dependent
- Minimum contribution $5 a pay period
- Maximum $5,000 annually
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While the mission of Texas Children’s
is compelling, the nature of our work can be physically, mentally
and emotionally challenging. We recognize our employees have lives
outside their careers. Texas Children’s supports health, wellness
and the compatibility between work and life that employees and their
families need.
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
benefits
Available for you and members of your
immediate family, providing confidential assistance with personal or
professional issues to help work or home life become more manageable
- Employee health services
- Pre-employment and periodic health
assessments
- Ongoing health education,
counseling and wellness promotion is available to all employees
- First aid services and certain
vaccinations, including annual flu shots
Texas Children’s parking benefits make
life a little easier for employees.
- Employees park for FREE in our very
own garage 19 at Braeswood and Greenbriar.
- Bus and van-pool riders receive FREE
vouchers.
- Shuttle service from parking lots to
the Medical Center campus is available Monday through Friday from
early morning to late evening.
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Personal time off (PTO)
- Generous PTO accruals begin on your
first day of employment
- Full-time employees can earn more
than four weeks of PTO for use during their first year of
employment
- PTO can be used for vacation,
personal days, and personal or family illness or injury
Extended illness bank (EIB)
- EIB accruals begin on your first day
of employment
- Full-time employees can earn up to
five days of EIB time for use during their first year of
employment for periods of extended illness or injury.
Family and other leaves of absence
- Family Medical Leave for qualifying
circumstances (administered by Employee Health)
- Leave may be granted to employees
for personal or educational needs or if they are not able to use
Family Medical Leave.
Catastrophic time off (CTO)
- Time off for employees who have
exhausted their leave but still need up to four more weeks to care
for themselves or immediate family members following a
catastrophic illness.
Six organizational holidays
- Creative scheduling possibilities
allow flexibility to manage personal and work responsibilities
- Win with Weekends program
offers nurses flexible scheduling to accommodate those who wish to
work weekends, while decreasing the weekend rotation for those who
prefer weekday schedules and working fewer weekends.
- Adoption expense reimbursement
- Corporate discounts at select quality child-care centers
- Business casual dress
- Resource and referral, health and
wellness and eldercare management services
- Hospital cafeteria discount
- Discounted tickets to recreational
parks and events, popular attractions, movies and more
- Subsidized Texas Medical Center
parking, vanpools and public transportation
- Team sports subsidies
 
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