Senior Health Care Recruiter

Housing Works•New York, NY

7d•$75,000 - $80,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Health Care Recruiter is a mid-to-senior-level, full-cycle talent acquisition professional responsible for attracting, engaging, assessing, and selecting clinical talent, particularly physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, nurse managers, medical assistants, and other hard-to-fill health care professionals. The recruiter serves as a consultative partner to the Chief Medical Officer, Medical Directors, nursing and clinical operations leaders, and hiring managers, translating workforce needs into focused sourcing and hiring strategies. The position requires knowledge of clinical labor markets, provider recruitment, credential-sensitive hiring, and community health care. The successful candidate has an established professional network, prior agency recruiting experience, active candidate pipelines, and experience recruiting for Federally Qualified Health Centers, hospitals, health systems, or similarly complex clinical environments. Success is measured by recruitment quality and speed, hiring-manager partnership, candidate experience, pipeline strength, compliance, and progress toward agreed recruitment goals. The role is based in New York City with a hybrid work arrangement, subject to organizational and departmental requirements. It involves regular use of a computer, telephone, video-conferencing platforms, and standard office equipment, as well as local travel among Housing Works sites and occasional recruitment or professional events, including events outside standard business hours when needed. Housing Works was founded in 1990 and has a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Its services include harm-reduction-based outpatient drug treatment, Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. Housing Works also operates thrift shops and a bookstore cafe and advocates for funding and legislation to help ensure access to housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Requirements

Minimum of 7 years of progressive recruiting experience, with substantial responsibility for clinical, provider, or health care recruitment; 10 years of directly relevant experience is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success recruiting physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, nurse managers, medical assistants, and other high-demand clinical professionals.
Prior health care staffing agency or search-firm experience is required, with evidence of proactive sourcing, pipeline development, candidate relationship management, and successful placements.
Experience recruiting within an FQHC, hospital, health system, multisite ambulatory network, behavioral health organization, or comparable regulated health care environment is required.
Established network of clinical and provider talent and the ability to activate credible pipelines quickly.
Experience partnering with Chief Medical Officers, Medical Directors, nursing executives, clinical department leaders, and senior operational stakeholders.
Working knowledge of clinical roles, common licensure and certification requirements, provider recruitment cycles, and credentialing-related handoffs.
Advanced proficiency with applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, spreadsheets, reporting tools, Microsoft 365, and recruitment analytics.
Demonstrated ability to manage a high-volume, high-complexity requisition portfolio while maintaining accuracy, follow-through, and service standards.
Strong written and verbal communication, consultative influence, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-management skills.
Ability to interpret recruiting data, identify trends, provide concise executive updates, and recommend practical actions.
Commitment to equitable, lawful, mission-aligned recruitment and ability to work effectively with diverse candidates, communities, and stakeholders.
Ability to communicate effectively in person, by telephone, in writing, and through virtual platforms.
Ability to travel locally among Housing Works sites and attend occasional recruitment or professional events, including events outside standard business hours when needed.
Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, health care administration, communications, or a related field preferred; an equivalent combination of relevant education, advanced clinical recruiting experience, and demonstrated results may be considered.

Nice To Haves

10 years of directly relevant recruiting experience.
Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, health care administration, communications, or a related field.
Professional recruiting or human resources certification.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruitment for physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, nurse managers, medical assistants, and other clinical and provider roles, from intake through accepted offer and pre-employment transition.
Partner with the Chief Medical Officer, Medical Directors, nursing leadership, clinical operations, and hiring managers to clarify role requirements, workforce priorities, compensation parameters, approval status, and realistic time-to-fill expectations.
Develop role-specific sourcing strategies through networks, referrals, professional associations, residency and fellowship programs, schools, conferences, direct outreach, social platforms, job boards, community partnerships, and talent mapping.
Build, maintain, and refresh warm pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill clinical roles, including shortage specialties and difficult geographies or schedules.
Conduct structured screenings and interviews assessing clinical background, licensure or certification, relevant setting experience, mission alignment, availability, compensation expectations, and other lawful job-related qualifications.
Advise hiring leaders on market conditions, talent availability, competitive positioning, search progress, candidate risk, process design, and selection practices.
Drive candidate engagement and closing strategies and provide a responsive, respectful candidate experience from outreach through offer acceptance.
Coordinate with Human Resources, credentialing, compliance, and clinical teams on timely collection and handoff of pre-employment documentation without independently making credentialing determinations.
Maintain complete, accurate, timely applicant tracking system records, including candidate activity, interview feedback, disposition reasons, source data, offers, and required recruitment documentation.
Manage concurrent searches through clear prioritization, organized follow-up, disciplined calendar management, and proactive escalation of obstacles.
Monitor and report pipeline health, funnel conversion, aging requisitions, time to slate, time to fill, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, candidate experience, and other agreed performance indicators.
Ensure recruitment practices comply with applicable equal employment opportunity, pay transparency, salary history, recordkeeping, and internal policy requirements.
Represent Housing Works at career fairs, professional association and clinical networking events, school partnerships, and community-based recruitment activities.
Contribute to employer-branding campaigns and develop targeted outreach content for clinical talent communities.
Identify process improvements, technology enhancements, and sourcing channels that improve recruitment quality, efficiency, and equity.
Share market intelligence and coach less-experienced recruiting team members on clinical sourcing, candidate engagement, and stakeholder management.
Support selected nonclinical or leadership searches based on organizational priorities and workload.
Participate in team meetings, organizational initiatives, audits, special projects, and training as assigned.
Maintain confidentiality of applicant, employee, compensation, and organizational information.
Perform other related duties consistent with the level and purpose of the position.

Benefits

Medical coverage for eligible employees.
Dental coverage for eligible employees.
Vision coverage for eligible employees.
Employer-funded HRA to help reduce healthcare costs.
Retirement savings plan with employer match of up to 3%.
Full-time employees accrue 18 days of PTO and 12 days of Sick & Safe time in their first year, with PTO increasing with tenure.
Seven paid holidays.
Wellness programs.
Employee discounts.
Benefits are subject to eligibility and plan terms.