Senior Health Care Recruiter

Housing Works; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

HRA to reduce healthcare costs

401(k) with employer match up to 3%

PTO 18 days + Sick time 12 days + 7–10

Holidays and wellness programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Housing Works in New York City seeks a Senior Health Care Recruiter to lead full-cycle recruitment for physicians, nurses, and other clinical staff. This mid-to-senior role partners with the CMO and nursing leadership to align role requirements, compensation, and time-to-fill expectations, while building robust pipelines for hard-to-fill clinical positions.

You will maintain compliant records, support credentialing handoffs, and drive candidate engagement with a focus on quality, speed, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred in HR, health care administration, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years recruiting experience with health care focus; 10 years preferred.
• Experience with FQHC, hospitals, health systems or similar environments.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruitment for physicians, nurses, and other clinical roles.
• Partner with the Chief Medical Officer and clinical leaders to clarify roles and priorities.
• Develop and refresh sourcing strategies across networks, programs, and job boards.
• Maintain pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill clinical positions.
• Ensure compliant, high-quality candidate experience from outreach to offer.

Skills

Full-cycle recruitment

Clinical recruiting

Stakeholder management

Candidate engagement

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Applicant Tracking Systems

Sourcing platforms

Microsoft 365

Job description

Compensation: $75,000-$80,000 (incentive bonus eligible)

Benefits

• Housing Works offers eligible employees medical, dental, and vision coverage, an employer-funded HRA to help reduce healthcare costs, and a retirement savings plan with an 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, plus seven paid holidays, with PTO increasing with tenure.
• Additional benefits include wellness programs and employee discounts.

Position Overview/ Summary Description

The Senior Health Care Recruiter is a mid-to-senior level, full-cycle talent acquisition professional responsible for attracting, engaging, assessing, and selecting highly qualified clinical talent. The role focuses heavily on physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, nurse managers, medical assistants, and other hard-to-fill health care positions. The recruiter serves as a consultative partner to the Chief Medical Officer, Medical Directors, nursing leaders, clinical operations leaders, and hiring managers, translating workforce needs into disciplined sourcing and hiring strategies.

This position requires deep knowledge of clinical labor markets, provider recruitment, credential-sensitive hiring, and community health care. The successful candidate brings 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 will be measured through quality, speed, hiring-manager partnership, candidate experience, pipeline strength, compliance, and achievement of agreed recruitment goals.

Essential Job Functions

Primary 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 directly with the Chief Medical Officer, Medical Directors, nursing leadership, clinical operations, to clarify role requirements, workforce priorities, compensation parameters, approval status, and realistic time-to-fill expectations.
• Develop role-specific sourcing strategies using established networks, referrals, professional associations, residency and fellowship programs, schools of nursing and medicine, conferences, direct outreach, social platforms, job boards, community partnerships, and targeted talent-mapping techniques.
• Build, maintain, and continuously refresh warm pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill clinical roles, with particular attention to shortage specialties and historically difficult geographies or schedules.
• Conduct structured screenings and interviews that assess clinical background, required 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 effective selection practices.
• Drive candidate engagement and closing strategies while delivering a responsive, respectful, and high-quality candidate experience from initial outreach through offer acceptance.
• Coordinate with Human Resources, credentialing, compliance, and clinical teams to support timely collection and handoff of licensure, certification, education, work history, references, and other pre-employment requirements without independently making credentialing determinations.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and timely records in the applicant tracking system, including candidate activity, interview feedback, disposition reasons, source data, offers, and required recruitment documentation.
• Manage multiple concurrent searches with clear prioritization, organized follow-up, disciplined calendar management, and proactive escalation of obstacles.
• Use recruitment data to 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 events, clinical networking events, school partnerships, and community-based recruitment activities.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Contribute to employer-branding campaigns and develop targeted outreach content for clinical talent communities.
• Identify process improvements, technology enhancements, and new 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

Other Functions

• 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.

Education

• 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.
• Professional recruiting or human resources certification is a plus.

Qualifications/ 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 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 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 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 the ability to work effectively with diverse candidates, communities, and stakeholders.

Competencies

The following additional competencies are viewed as important to success in this position

• Clinical Talent Market Expertise: Understands provider and nursing talent markets, candidate motivators, and competitive recruitment practices.
• Strategic Sourcing: Builds sustainable talent communities rather than relying only on posted applicants.
• Credible Partnership: Communicates directly and effectively with clinical executives and converts complex needs into actionable search plans.
• Execution and Accountability: Sets measurable goals, prioritizes effectively, follows through, and closes searches with urgency and sound judgment.
• Organization and Detail Orientation: Maintains accurate records, anticipates dependencies, and manages multiple workstreams without losing momentum.
• Data Fluency: Uses metrics to diagnose funnel challenges, evaluate sources, and improve outcomes.
• Candidate Advocacy and Closing: Builds trust, manages expectations, addresses concerns, and protects the candidate experience.
• Collaboration and Discretion: Works across functions while safeguarding confidential and sensitive information.
• Adaptability and Problem Solving: Adjusts sourcing and selection approaches based on changing business needs and labor-market realities.

Essential Physical Demands/ Working Conditions

• Hybrid work arrangement based in New York City, subject to organizational and departmental requirements.
• Regular use of a computer, telephone, video-conferencing platforms, and standard office equipment for extended periods.
• 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.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position

About Housing Works

Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org (http://www.housingworks.org)

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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