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CHESS Team Float Pool
Cayuga Health Enterprise Support System (CHESS) Float Pool is a hospital wide float pool. Team members who are part of the CHESS team have flexible schedules and competitive wages, work in multiple units and locations, enjoy a customizable floating experience, have an opportunity to learn new skills, and benefit from a great work environment. Full-time, part-time positions with benefits and PRN positions are available.
The CHESS team was designed to create a system wide float pool to assist in staffing clinical positions.
Objectives of Float Pool:
- Provide stability in staffing by utilizing experienced team members’ strengths to ensure patient safety, and allow the team member flexibility and variety in their work life.
- Assure a more highly prepared CHESS team, based on consistency of Cayuga Health processes, policies, and departments
- Deploy a dedicated, centralized team that continually meets Cayuga Health’s staffing needs and that share Cayuga Health’s mission, vision, and values.
Benefits of joining our CHESS team:
- Customized floating experience based on where and what you want to do
- Opportunity to learn new skills
- Benefited positions for full time and part time jobs
- Competitive wages
Am I qualified?
You must have at least 1 year of experience in a participating CHESS team department. Upon acceptance into the program, you will be required to meet the minimum points needed at that time. Please reach out to one of our nursing recruiters to discuss what options are available.
CHESS Team Departments:
- Medical Surgical Units (Cayuga Medical and Schuyler Hospital are available)
- Cayuga Addiction and Recovery
- Emergency Department (Cayuga Medical and Schuyler Hospital are available)
- Intensive Care Unit
- Operating Room (Cayuga Medical and Schuyler Hospital are available)
- Labor and Delivery
- Endoscopy
- Skilled Nursing Facility (Schuyler Hospital)
- Behavioral Health Unit
- Dialysis
- Inpatient Rehab
- Vascular Access
- Visiting Nurse Services
- Wound Care
- Mother Baby
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what our EMPLOYEES are saying
“Working at Cayuga Health is a unique opportunity for people to positively impact the experience of patients, their families, and our community. There are the numerous ways to become involved in our system and to help ensure community members to receive the best care available anywhere. We are proud of our diverse, accomplished, and supportive staff – and we hope you consider joining it.”
“Cayuga Medical Center offers resources that not only save and improve lives, but they also offer opportunities for career advancement to their employees. They have helped me to further my education as I work to become a nurse.”
“Exceptional quality of life coupled with the opportunity to work with remarkable colleagues in a state of the art facility that has relentless focus on quality care and patient satisfaction. More over, you can really have it all in Ithaca – short commute, great schools, a world class university and to top it all – nature’s beauty at its best during four seasons.”
“I am proud to work at CMC because they are dedicated to improvement and for the first time in my career, I feel like I can make a difference. The teamwork in the Emergency Department is pretty amazing!”
“As a primary care physician, I help support and feel supported by the community in which I love. The Ithaca community is diverse, collegial and proactive in their health. We are fortunate to have great resources through Cayuga Medical Center and a wealth of superb physicians rarely seen outside large urban centers. My family takes advantage of living in the Finger Lakes with swimming, hiking, cross country skiing, and trips to the local wineries, farmer’s markets, and festivals all year long.”
“This has been a dream job. I never thought it would be so perfect or so rewarding. Taking care of patients with respiratory needs is an honor and having the support of such great staff around me makes it that much more motivating to come into work and do my best every day.”
