RN Talent Acquisition Specialist

UofL Health•Louisville, KY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The RN Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for developing and executing comprehensive recruitment strategies to attract, engage, and hire high-quality registered nursing professionals across the organization. This role serves as a strategic partner to nursing leadership, leveraging healthcare industry expertise and clinical knowledge to identify talent needs, build robust candidate pipelines, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience. The RN Recruiter manages the full recruitment lifecycle for nursing positions, ensuring timely, compliant, and cost-effective hiring practices that support organizational workforce goals, patient care excellence, and employee retention. Through proactive sourcing, relationship building, market intelligence, and data-driven decision-making, the recruiter helps ensure the organization maintains a highly skilled and engaged nursing workforce. The RN Talent Acquisition Specialist is required to maintain an active, unrestricted Kentucky Registered Nurse (RN) license.

Requirements

Active, unrestricted Kentucky Registered Nurse (RN) license.
Associate’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program.
Two plus years of hospital-based bedside nursing required.
Strong organizational skills to coordinate care of multiple patients at once.
Provides competent care based on knowledge of nursing research, evidence-based practice and performance improvement.
Evaluates patient and family care in relation to scientific knowledge, identifying and participating in improvement using hospital quality control model.
Exercises informed judgment at the competent level of practice, assuming responsibility and accountability for patient care assignments, demonstrating appropriate priorities for care and commitment to patient, family, and the care team.
Knowledge in all aspects of designated service line.
Proactive - anticipates and plans for problems before they arise.
Service Excellence – responsive, informs constituents of process, pleasant to work with, educates and provides timely, accurate information.
Organized – manages time effectively, keeps tasks appropriately prioritized.
Flexible – ability to change directions as needed for the good of the department or organization.
Critical Thinking – ability to think through issues and identify appropriate options.
Work Ethics – motivated, diligent, industrious and persistent in the workplace, stays on tasks to completion, works at a fast pace to ensure optimal efficiency.
Interpersonal – can build effective, strong working relationships with employees, colleagues, management and vendors through trust, communication, and credibility.
Team – ability to work with others, serve others, help others, lead others, mentor others, take directions from others in the interest of moving process and programs forward to the desired outcome.
Emotional Intelligence – ability to not take issues personal, see the big picture in emotionally charged situations and respond in a mature, professional, composed manner.
Self-Awareness – ability to reflect, understand limitations, and seek appropriate assistance and guidance.
Judgment – exercises discretion and due diligence when making decisions and recommendations.
Must be able to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats.
Adequate conversational English is required in order that the individual be able to take direction from management, understand how to complete job tasks, communicate adequately with patients and co-workers as necessary, understand and follow safety guidelines, and organizational policies.
Able to critically think through complex patient situations, process improvements, evidence-based practice to solve problems.
Able to assist others in developing clinical reasoning skills.
Competent in all computer applications as required by position.
Must have the capacity to learn other relevant systems and databases, as needed.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program.

Responsibilities

Manage the full-cycle recruitment process for registered nurses and other assigned clinical positions, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding coordination.
Partner with nursing leaders and hiring managers to understand workforce needs, staffing challenges, and recruitment priorities.
Develop and execute proactive recruitment strategies to attract qualified nursing candidates in a competitive healthcare market.
Source active and passive candidates through job boards, social media, professional networking, employee referrals, nursing schools, and industry associations.
Conduct candidate screenings to assess clinical experience, qualifications, licensure, certifications, competencies, and organizational fit.
Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for hard-to-fill, high-volume, and critical nursing roles.
Ensure a positive candidate experience through timely communication, relationship management, and recruitment process transparency.
Coordinate and facilitate interviews between candidates and hiring leaders.
Extend employment offers and partner with candidates throughout the pre-employment and onboarding process.
Maintain knowledge of nursing labor market trends, compensation benchmarks, and competitive recruitment practices.
Attend career fairs, nursing school events, professional conferences, and community outreach activities to promote the organization's employment brand.
Ensure compliance with all federal, state, regulatory, and organizational employment policies and healthcare hiring requirements.
Verify nursing licensure, certifications, and credentialing requirements in collaboration with HR and compliance teams.
Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders on recruitment best practices, interview techniques, and talent market conditions.
Foster relationships with internal stakeholders to support workforce stability and long-term talent acquisition goals.
Participate in special projects, process improvement initiatives, and workforce strategy development as assigned.
Proactively source qualified candidates using healthcare databases, professional networks, social media, and nursing alumni associations.
Conduct initial phone and video screenings, utilizing your clinical knowledge to assess candidates' skills, experience, and cultural fit.
Review and Verify applicable credentials.
Partner with Nursing leaders to understand unit-specific staffing gaps and match the right candidates.
Serve as the primary point of contact for candidates, guiding them transparently through interview scheduling, clinical onboarding, and orientation logistics.
Represent the organization at healthcare job fairs, university career events, and professional nursing conferences.
Maintain meticulous records of candidate interactions, compliance documentation, and hiring metrics in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
Demonstrates professional conduct and appearance and is accountable for actions and outcomes.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.
Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.
Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines.
Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.
Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the broader health care community.