Senior Clinical Recruiter

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital is seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead full lifecycle recruitment and build strong relationships with hiring managers, candidates, and external partners. You will drive targeted sourcing initiatives, guide the team, and ensure a world-class candidate experience across senior-to-director levels.

The role requires strategic sourcing, stakeholder collaboration, and the ability to navigate a fast-paced healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related area.
• 5+ years recruiting or human resources experience.
• Experience in high-volume recruiting.
• Experience as a change agent; comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent skills in influence, negotiation, collaboration, and handling difficult conversations required.
• Skilled with competency and behavior-based interview and assessment required.
• Experience in health care preferred.
• Experience in developing and delivering recruitment strategies and processes to improve outcomes required.
• Adept with using a variety of recruiting technologies to source talent.
• Some air travel required to attend job fairs and conferences.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the full lifecycle requirement process for assigned departments/open positions
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with hiring managers and serve as a subject matter expert in recruitment/HR matters
• Consult and partner with hiring managers and key stakeholders to obtain pertinent information for postings, sourcing, and qualifying candidates
• Source, screen, prequalify, interview, and evaluate candidates for employment
• Develop and execute innovative sourcing strategies to attract top talent via social media, networks, and outreach
• Build and manage partnerships with leaders, hiring managers, and HR team
• Attend conferences and job fairs to promote Mary Free Bed and recruitment marketing
• Manage data in the ATS to minimize time-to-fill and ensure a world-class candidate experience
• Develop relationships with colleges/universities for future sourcing
• Mentor TA team members and share best practices
• Support recruitment operations in absence of TA Manager/Director
• Collaborate with TA Manager/Director on strategic projects
• Responsible for hiring director+ roles when applicable
• Determine weekly hot jobs and talent pool needs
• Provide Panel Interview Training and onboarding for new leaders

Skills

Bachelor's degree

5+ years recruiting

High volume recruiting

Change agent

Influence & negotiation

Behavior-based interviewing

Healthcare recruiting

Recruitment strategies

Recruiting technologies

Travel for job fairs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related area

Job description

Summary

The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist will perform the full lifecycle recruitment process while building and maintaining excellent relationships with hiring managers, candidates, external partners and the Mary Free Bed community.

This individual will help lead the Talent Acquisition team and will be instrumental in providing high quality candidates to fill hiring needs by implementing targeted sourcing initiatives, leveraging social networking, and other recruitment tools with sense of urgency, enhancing the hiring manager and candidate/customer experience. Provides guidance for the day-to-day operations and decisions of Talent Acquisition Coordinator and Talent Acquisition Specialists.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for the full lifecycle requirement process for assigned departments/open positions
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with hiring managers and serve as a subject matter expert in recruitment/HR matters
• Consult and partner with hiring managers and key stakeholders to obtain pertinent information that will aide in drafting postings, sourcing, and qualifying active and passive candidates
• Source, screen, prequalify, interview, and evaluate candidates to determine their competencies and qualification for employment.
• Proactively search active and passive talent to develop and maintain a pipeline of candidates across client groups and levels within our organization
• Develop and execute innovative sourcing strategies to attract top clinical and non-clinical talent, leveraging social media platforms, professional networks, direct candidate outreach, market research, and other recruitment channels.
• Build and manage productive partnerships with organizational leaders, hiring managers, and HR team
• Attend high value conferences and job fairs to promote and recruit for the Mary Free Bed and Rehabilitation Professionals systems. Designs and updates effective marketing to attract qualified candidates
• Manage data integrity within the applicant tracking system, managing each candidate’s movement through the recruitment process to minimize time to fill and provide a world-class candidate experience
• Develop professional relationships with colleges and universities, and networks with other professional recruiters and agencies for future sourcing of high-quality candidates
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives
• Provides mentorship, guidance, and subject matter expertise to Talent Acquisition team members and serves as a resource for recruitment best practices.
• Supports recruitment operations and provides support in the absence of the Talent Acquisition Manager/Director.
• Work with Talent Acquisition Manager/Director to determine strategic projects and goals for recruitment
• Responsible for hiring of director and higher roles within the organization, when applicable.
• Work with Talent Acquisition Specialist to determine weekly hot jobs and needs to fill talent pool
• Responsible for Panel Interview Training and onboarding new leaders onto recruitment process

We’ll embrace all people by:

• Treating everyone with dignity and respect.
• Opening more doors to opportunity for others to succeed.
• Growing talent and people.
• Ensuring a welcoming experience for all we serve, regardless of origin, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.
• Taking action against discrimination.
• Honoring our differences and how we collaborate.
• Educating staff, patients and the communities we care for.
• Restoring hope and freedom, together.

Customer Service Responsibilities

Demonstrate excellent customer service and standards of behaviors as well as encourages, coaches, and monitors the same in team members. This individual should consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co-workers and deal discretely and sensitively with confidential information.

Responsibilities in Quality Improvement

Contribute by identifying problems and seeking solutions. Promote patient/family satisfaction where possible; participates in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service.

Essential Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or other related area.
• At least 5 years recruiting and/or human resources experience preferred.
• Experience in high volume recruiting.
• Experience as a change agent; comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Requires excellent skills in influence, negotiation, collaboration, and handling difficult conversations required.
• Skilled with competency and behavior-based interview and assessment required.
• Experience in health care preferred.
• Experience in developing and delivering recruitment strategies and processes to improve outcomes required.
• Adept with using a variety of recruiting technologies to source talent.
• Some air travel required to attend job fairs and conferences.

Physical Requirements for Essential Job Qualification

Levels :

• None (No specific requirements)
• Occasionally (Less than 1/3)
• Frequently (1/3 to 2/3)
• Majority (More than 2/3)

Remain in a stationary position: Majority

Traverse or move around work location: Occasionally

Use keyboard: Frequently

Operate or use department specific equipment: None

Ascend/Descend equipment or ladder: None

Position self to accomplish the Essential Functions of the role: None

Receive and communicate information and ideas for understanding: None

Transport, position, and/or exert force:

Up to 10 pounds: Occasionally

Up to 25 pounds: _____

Up to 50 pounds: _____

Up to 75 pounds: _____

More than 100 pounds: _____

Other weight: Up to___ pounds _____

Other: None

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is the policy of Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail].

Mary Free Bed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristic.