Human Resources at VA Puget Sound
1-800-329-8387, Ext. 6-2135
or
206-764-2135

Looking for a career and not just a job?

...Join Us at VA Puget Sound Health Care System.    With two campuses (Tacoma and Seattle), we provide primary and specialty health care to men and women veterans in the Puget Sound Region, and by referral from other VA facilities in the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN 20) serving Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Idaho. Over one million veterans reside within the boundaries of VISN 20 and more than 670,000 veterans live in Washington State. 

Referrals from other VA medical centers come to our nationally recognized spinal cord injury center of excellence; our rehabilitation program, prosthetics and limb loss prevention program; our mental illness research, education and clinical center; as well as our geriatric research, education and clinical center; our nationally recognized substance abuse treatment and education, and our highly regarded health services research and development program.                            

As an employer, VA Puget Sound HCS fosters Excellence, Courtesy, Respect, Caring, Integrity, Commitment and Teamwork. Our commitment to these values was recognized with the presentation of the National Kenneth Kizer Quality Grant Award and Superior Customer Service Award - 2000 and 2001.  VA Puget Sound was the first and only multi-division health care system to achieve this distinction.

We provide exceptional benefits, a creative work environment, and opportunities for career development, recognition and advancement. We provide equal opportunity in employment of all qualified persons and strive to have a workplace that is free from discrimination in employment because of race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability.  It is the policy of the VA PSHCS to have the workplace free of sexual harassment, a form of sex discrimination.

Nursing Employment

Our LPN's RN's, ARNP's, CRNA's work in a stimulating environment that combines state of the art clinical care with education and research opportunities. These accomplishments have been recognized nationally with multiple prestigious awards, including the U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary's Award for Achievement in Nursing. Please contact Donna Kline (donna.kline@va.gov), our Nurse Recruiter, to learn what Nursing Opportunities are now available.

Medical Staff Employment

Clinical staffs at VA Puget Sound Health Care System have led the nation in developing specialized,  award winning software for the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) that specifically addresses patient safety and offers clinicians the ability to chart patients electronically. These enhancements include the clinical event monitor (over 2,478 medication orders per workday are scrutinized by the monitor to detect errors in dosage or laboratory monitoring); introduction of bar coding, which enables clinicians to read, enter and review prescription orders at the bedside through a wireless computerized database and several innovative telemedicine programs.  

Special emphasis programs include: our epidemiology research and information center; our rehabilitation research and prosthetics program; bone marrow transplantation, gene therapy and new cancer treatments; homeless veterans domiciliary treatment and rehabilitation program; post-traumatic stress disorder and gulf war illness research and treatment programs; hepatitis C collaborative center for education and research; diabetes/endocrinology research center; brachytherapy program; Alzheimer's disease research and treatment center; residential blind rehabilitation program; center for ethics and our new comprehensive cancer center. 

For information about openings for physicians, physician assistants and psychologists, please see Job Opportunities (our local job bank is presently in development).

Volunteer Opportunities

Our management team and its dedicated employees receive tremendous support from the community. Approximately 1,300 regularly scheduled volunteers donate over 200,000 hours annually, to provide supplemental assistance to veterans at VA Puget Sound. This is a wonderful way to serve those who have served us.  We cordially invite you to participate in our Volunteer Program.