Physician Integration Specialist, Senior

American Addiction Centers • Milwaukee, WI

11d • $38 - $57 • Remote

About The Position

Advocate Health is seeking a Physician Integration Specialist to support the physician and advanced practice professional recruitment, interview, hiring, onboarding, and integration experience across a defined market and/or service line. In this role, you will serve as a trusted site-level liaison and integration expert, partnering closely with physician/APC recruiters, operational leaders, medical group leaders, candidates, and families to ensure a smooth, welcoming, and highly coordinated recruitment and onboarding journey. This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys relationship-building, project coordination, problem-solving, and serving as a connector between candidates, families, recruiters, physician leaders, and operational teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Typically requires 5 years of experience in provider relations, marketing, medical group operations, communications, physician/APP recruitment, or a related health care environment.
• Experience developing relationships with providers, educating providers on services and programs, and facilitating processes across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of recruitment strategies, retention practices, business development, market development, and workforce planning.
• Ability to evaluate, address, and resolve complex issues and challenges with sound judgment and follow-through.
• Ability to recognize potentially problematic issues, understand organizational implications, and support effective resolution.
• Knowledge of the geographic area served, with the ability to provide community guidance to physicians and their families.
• Advanced knowledge of state and federal employment laws and regulations impacting recruitment, human resources, and organizational practices.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with physicians, leaders, candidates, families, and colleagues.
• Strong negotiation, organization, prioritization, and project coordination skills.
• Experience leading and/or coordinating projects, including timeline development, implementation, follow-up, and evaluation.
• Ability to serve as a resource, provide guidance to others, and establish credibility through expertise, trust, and relationship-building.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other system applications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting physician and/or APP recruitment, onboarding, integration, provider relations, business development, marketing, clinic operations, or medical group operations.
• Experience working in a health care environment with physicians, APPs, operational leaders, physician leaders, service line leaders, hospital executives, and recruitment teams.
• Strong attention to detail, service-minded approach, and ability to work autonomously while collaborating with a broader team.
• Knowledge of local communities, hospitals, clinics, and health care markets within the assigned territory.
• Experience supporting clinician candidate visits, relocation needs, onboarding, retention, and post-hire integration activities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary site liaison during the pre-interview and interview process, providing consultation, education, and support to candidates, physician leaders, and recruitment colleagues.
• Partner with physician/APC recruiters to ensure a smooth, efficient, and effective candidate experience throughout the recruitment, interview, hiring, and onboarding process.
• Develop, coordinate, and schedule site visit plans, candidate itineraries, interviews, community tours, and related logistics.
• Educate candidates and their families on Advocate Health’s services, facilities, processes, culture, and local communities.
• Identify candidate and family needs, research resources as needed, and provide guidance to support relocation and integration.
• Maintain consistent communication regarding candidate status, itinerary development, market conditions, recruitment plans, and potential process concerns.
• Collaborate with operational and medical leadership to support assessment of candidate fit, including cultural alignment and skill match.
• Accompany candidates during site visits, gather post-visit feedback from candidates and leaders, and help evaluate the effectiveness of the visit experience.
• Partner with local administration, operations, medical group leaders, and recruitment colleagues to support development of practice descriptions and opportunity summaries.
• Support site-level workforce planning by identifying and communicating pending workforce concerns, recruitment trends, and potential retention opportunities.
• Brand and market Advocate Health by presenting the organization, services, programs, communities, and best practices in a consistent and compelling way.
• Maintain contact with new clinicians during the first year of employment to support a smooth transition, answer questions, resolve concerns, and gather scheduled feedback.
• Conduct exit interviews with departing clinicians, including retirees, and prepare reports for senior leadership to help track trends and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor credentialing, privileging, and licensing processes in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to support timely completion after offer acceptance.
• Proactively identify potential delays or gaps in hiring, onboarding, credentialing, and integration processes and help facilitate timely solutions.
• Oversee onboarding in partnership with department colleagues, site leadership, and new hires to help ensure a successful transition.
• Coordinate and support new hire house-hunting activities, clinical/site orientation, hospital orientation, and related integration needs.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Generous retirement offerings
• Programs that invest in your career development
• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior