Physician and APP Recruiter Specialist

Overview

The Physician and APP Recruiter is responsible for full-cycle recruitment of physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) across Sentara Health. This position serves as a strategic recruitment partner to operational and physician leaders, supporting workforce planning and executing innovative sourcing strategies to attract top clinical talent.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as a strategic recruitment partner to operational and physician leaders, supporting workforce planning and executing innovative sourcing strategies to attract top clinical talent.
• Manages the recruitment lifecycle from requisition intake through candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer development, negotiations, and onboarding transition.
• Develops and maintains strong candidate pipelines, builds relationships with residency and fellowship programs, professional organizations, and passive candidates, and represents Sentara at recruitment events and conferences.
• Pairs closely with physician leadership, operations, credentialing, compensation, immigration, and onboarding teams to deliver an exceptional candidate experience while ensuring compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and recruitment best practices.
• Requires exceptional relationship-building, strategic sourcing expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority searches in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

Education and Experience

Minimum of four (4) years of experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, physician recruitment, healthcare recruitment, executive search, sales, business development, or related field.

• Experience managing full-cycle recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and candidate relationship management.
• Experience recruiting for difficult-to-fill, high-volume, or highly specialized positions; physician or advanced practice provider recruitment preferred.
• Demonstrated success building relationships with physicians, hiring leaders, operational stakeholders, and external recruitment partners while providing exceptional customer service.
• Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems (Workday preferred), CRM tools, sourcing platforms, and recruitment marketing strategies to build candidate pipelines and achieve hiring goals.

Preferred Certifications/Licenses

• AIRS, SHRM, LinkedIn Recruiter, AAPPR, or other professional recruiting certification.

Benefits

• Caring For Your Family and Your Career:
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000 Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan

Company Information

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment. For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.