Lead Recruiter

NorthPoint Search Group; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthPoint Search Group seeks a Talent Acquisition Lead to own the performance, effectiveness, and scalability of the healthcare recruiting function. The role drives high-volume and specialty hiring through direct recruiting, workforce planning, and partnerships with hiring leaders.

The leader will optimize processes, develop recruiters, and build sustainable pipelines with talent communities and targeting strategies to meet staffing objectives across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of healthcare recruiting experience, including high-volume and specialty recruitment.
• Experience recruiting clinical, allied health, behavioral health, nursing, advanced practice, or other healthcare professionals.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing strategies, workforce planning, interviewing techniques, and talent acquisition best practices.
• Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruitment metrics, and reporting tools.
• Excellent communication, relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining recruiting performance and service standards.
• Preferred experience leading recruitment teams within healthcare orgs, staffing agency, or workforce solutions.
• Experience supporting multi-site, multi-state, or rapid-growth recruiting operations.
• Knowledge of healthcare credentialing, licensure requirements, and onboarding processes.
• Experience developing recruitment scorecards, KPIs, and workforce planning strategies.
• Experience implementing recruiting technologies, process improvements, and talent acquisition projects.
• Experience with Paylocity ATS

Responsibilities

• Own the performance, effectiveness, and scalability of the healthcare recruiting function.
• Oversee requisition activity, recruiter performance, hiring priorities, and workflows.
• Ensure open positions are filled within organizational expectations with quality-of-hire.
• Develop sustainable candidate pipelines through sourcing initiatives, talent communities, recruiting marketing, and workforce planning.

Skills

Healthcare recruiting

High-volume recruiting

Sourcing strategies

Workforce planning

Recruiter development

Stakeholder engagement

Process optimization

KPIs & metrics

Multi-site recruiting

Communication skills

Tools

Paylocity ATS

Job description

The Talent Acquisition Lead owns the performance, effectiveness, and scalability of the healthcare recruiting function. This seat is accountable for achieving hiring goals across high-volume and specialty healthcare positions through direct recruiting efforts, recruiter development, workforce planning support, process optimization, and strategic partnership with hiring leaders. The Lead Healthcare Recruiter ensures recruiting activities consistently deliver qualified talent, positive candidate experiences, and measurable staffing results that support organizational growth and operational success. Recruitment Team Performance and Hiring Outcomes: Recruitment objectives are achieved through effective oversight of requisition activity, recruiter performance, hiring priorities, and talent acquisition workflows. Open positions are filled within organizational expectations while maintaining quality-of-hire standards and supporting workforce needs. High-Volume and Specialty Healthcare Recruitment: Critical, high-volume, and hard-to-fill positions are successfully sourced, recruited, and filled through proactive talent acquisition strategies, strong market knowledge, and effective candidate engagement. Hiring Manager and Stakeholder Success: Hiring managers and organizational leaders receive consultative recruitment support, timely communication, labor market intelligence, and talent acquisition recommendations that improve hiring decisions, strengthen workforce planning, and support achievement of staffing objectives across high-volume and specialty healthcare positions. Strategic Talent Pipeline Management: Sustainable candidate pipelines are developed and maintained for current and future workforce needs through sourcing initiatives, talent community engagement, recruitment marketing, and workforce planning activities. Compensation Strategy and Labor Cost Alignment: Recruitment and workforce decisions support organizational labor cost objectives through proactive partnership with leadership, Human Resources, Finance, and stakeholders. Market intelligence, compensation trends, candidate expectations, and workforce supply data are leveraged to guide pay practices, hiring strategies, and position design, resulting in competitive talent acquisition outcomes that balance quality, retention, financial stewardship, and organizational goals. Recruitment Operations, Compliance, and Process Excellence: Recruiting processes, applicant tracking systems, documentation standards, onboarding coordination, and employment practices operate consistently, efficiently, and in compliance with organizational policies and applicable regulations. Continuous Improvement and EOS Performance: Recruiting performance improves through analysis of hiring metrics, process optimization, implementation of best practices, and attainment of measurables. The recruitment function becomes increasingly efficient, scalable, and aligned with organizational goals. Additional

Responsibilities

As business needs evolve, take ownership of additional priorities and responsibilities that support the team and organization. Focus on the desired outcome, exercise sound judgment, and do what is needed to move work forward and achieve company goals.

Qualifications Required

• Minimum of 5 years of healthcare recruiting experience, including high-volume and specialty recruitment.
• Demonstrated success recruiting clinical, allied health, behavioral health, nursing, advanced practice, or other healthcare professionals.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing strategies, workforce planning, interviewing techniques, and talent acquisition best practices.
• Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruitment metrics, and reporting tools.
• Excellent communication, relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining recruiting performance and service standards.
• Preferred Experience leading recruitment teams within a healthcare organization, staffing agency, or workforce solutions environment.
• Experience supporting multi-site, multi-state, or rapid-growth recruiting operations.
• Knowledge of healthcare credentialing, licensure requirements, and onboarding processes.
• Experience developing recruitment scorecards, KPIs, and workforce planning strategies.
• Experience implementing recruiting technologies, process improvements, and talent acquisition projects.
• Experience with Paylocity ATS