Healthcare Recruiter

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions; United States; On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions is seeking a Recruiter to deliver high quality nurse travel candidates and allied healthcare professionals to LifePoint facilities. You will screen candidates, negotiate compensation, present profiles to facilities, and contract placements while coordinating daily travel operations.

Responsibilities include maintaining candidate pipelines, collaborating with housing and QA teams, and ensuring compliance prior to placement.

Qualifications

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to thrive in a fast paced environment; persuasive and upbeat.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and tasks.
• Ability to work well independently and within a team environment.
• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal, organizational and follow-through skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with travelers and employees with diverse personalities.

Responsibilities

• Communicates with Hospital Account Manager and traveler regarding traveler availability, open positions and assignment changes.
• Ensures schedule availability of all active travelers is updated and documentation is entered into system to interview travelers quickly.
• Collaborates with Housing and QA to ensure travel employees begin assignment on time.
• Keeps Housing Department informed of all assignment changes.
• Ensures travel staff is compliant prior to placement.
• Develops a growing pipeline of travel candidates using various recruiting sources.
• Generates and recruits referrals from current and former nurses.
• Maintains contact with travelers during assignment to sustain high service levels and retention.

Skills

Excellent communication

Multitasking

Teamwork

Independent worker

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

MS Outlook

Excel

MS Word

Job description

GENERAL SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

The Recruiter is responsible for delivering high quality nurse travel candidates and allied healthcare professionals to LifePoint facilities. This includes screening candidates, negotiating compensation packages, presenting their profiles to the facilities and contracting them to work at the LifePoint facilities. The Recruiter is also responsible for maintaining the daily operational activities that pertain to the traveler during the assignment.

SUPERVISOR

– Director of Travel Division

SUPERVISES

– None

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO

• Communicates with the Hospital Account Manager and traveler regarding traveler availability, open positions and assignment changes.
• Ensures that schedule availability of all active travelers is updated and documentation is entered into system to make sure all travelers are interviewed quickly.
• Collaborates with other departments (Housing, QA…) to ensure that the travel employee begins assignment on time.
• Keeps Housing Department informed of all assignment changes.
• Ensures that travel staff is compliant prior to placement.
• Maintain accuracy of traveler information in the Travel Module.
• Responsible for developing a growing pipeline of potential travel candidates by utilizing a variety of recruiting sources effectively.
• Generate and actively recruit referrals from current and former nurses.
• Maintain consistent contact with travelers while on assignment to keep customer service levels high by troubleshooting, counseling and problem solving when necessary.
• Maintain and retain travelers through weekly quality control calls and career path communication to ensure continued satisfaction and retention.
• Communicate with Director of Travel on any issues that arise with a travel candidate while on assignment that could lead to the cancelling of the assignment.
• Consistently meet or exceed established goals both individually and departmentally.
• Participate in communicating with other recruiters in the Recruitment Department suggestions on sales strategies, recruiting strategies and methods that will achieve order fill goals.
• Fully articulates and adheres to requirements of each facility.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES

– This position requires the following minimal requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Able to thrive in a fast paced environment; persuasive and upbeat
• Able to manage multiple priorities and tasks
• Ability to work well independently and within a team environment
• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal, organizational and follow-through skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with travelers and employees with diverse personalities
• Basic computer knowledge such as MS Outlook, Excel and MS Word
• Maintains working area and equipment in accordance with environmental and safety regulations

EDUCATION

– High School or GED equivalent required

EXPERIENCE

– 1-3 years of recruiting experience required, preferably within Healthcare.

CERTIFICATE/LICENSE

– None

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

• Requires prolonged sitting and some bending, stooping, and stretching.
• Requires eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, telephone, calculator, and other office equipment.
• Requires the perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Requires normal range of eyesight to record, prepare, and communicate appropriate reports.