Physician Recruiter

About the role

Vanderbilt Health is the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system with eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, providing world-class care and a mission to move medicine forward through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. The organization fosters a collaborative, supportive community where expertise is valued, knowledge expanded, and uniqueness celebrated. In this role, you will execute and manage the physician staffing development plan and physician recruitment strategies, collaborate with leadership and HR to achieve recruiting targets, identify process challenges, and recruit and evaluate candidates to meet staffing objectives.

Responsibilities

• Builds pipelines of prospective candidates through professional networks, targeted outreach and recruitment events.
• Partners with all levels of leadership in executing strategies and initiatives to recruit qualified physicians to the practice.
• Works collaboratively with leadership to assess, improve and implement best practices to effectively recruit physicians from sourcing candidates, interviews and selection.
• Develops and implements physician recruitment strategies for assigned facilities to meet desired recruiting goals.
• Collaborates in the development of the financial offers to providers with appropriate Practice Management approvals.
• Develops, reviews, and provides insight on financial packages of potential physician recruits.
• Leads the onboarding process for all new acquisitions into the physician recruitment process, ensuring an efficient transition.
• Develops effective sourcing strategies inclusive of trade shows, direct mail campaigns and search firm resources, participating in local and national recruiting/networking events as applicable.
• Reviews and negotiates agency contracts.

Skills

• Networking (Intermediate)
• Documentation (Intermediate)
• Recruiting Needs Assessment (Intermediate)
• Interviewing (Intermediate)
• Develops self and others: invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance and gain knowledge in new areas.
• Builds and maintains relationships: maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.
• Communicates effectively: recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences.
• Serves others with compassion: seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.
• Solves complex problems: approaches problems from different angles; identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.
• Offers meaningful advice and support: provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness.
• Performs excellent work: engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.
• Ensures continuous improvement: applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them.
• Fulfills safety and regulatory requirements: understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring.
• Demonstrates accountability: demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.
• Stewards organizational resources: applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.
• Makes data-driven decisions: demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.
• Generates new ideas: proactively identifies new