Clinical Recruiter

The Allied Health Clinical Recruiter serves as a strategic talent partner to leaders across rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging, and inpatient nursing support services. This role is responsible for full lifecycle recruiting for positions including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, athletic trainers, imaging professionals, nurse technicians, and other clinical support roles. This recruiter will build strong relationships with hiring leaders, develop a thorough understanding of each department’s workforce needs, and create sourcing strategies that address both immediate openings and future hiring demand.

The position requires someone who enjoys proactively identifying clinical talent, building long-term candidate pipelines, and developing creative solutions in markets where local educational programs or experienced candidates may be limited. The portfolio includes both specialized and higher-volume recruitment. The successful candidate will be comfortable engaging passive rehabilitation and imaging professionals while also generating and managing applicant flow for nurse technician and other nursing support opportunities.

This individual will use recruiting data, labor-market information, community partnerships, educational relationships, and targeted outreach to deliver strong candidate pipelines and advise leaders on effective hiring strategies. This is a market facing position supporting Southwest Michigan. The recruiter will regularly participate in career fairs, educational events, onsite hiring activities, and community outreach throughout Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana, with occasional travel to Illinois.

Candidates who live in or near Southwest Michigan are strongly preferred.

• Develops a thorough knowledge of assigned clinical business areas, including strategic goals, department culture, workforce needs, future staffing demand, and leader expectations.
• Consults and partners with hiring leaders across rehabilitation, imaging, and inpatient nursing support services to understand position-specific requirements and develop effective recruitment strategies.
• Conducts in-depth intake sessions to align expectations, understand the talent market, identify potential hiring barriers, and establish a clear sourcing and selection plan.
• Provides counsel and talent-market insight to hiring leaders regarding candidate availability, competitive challenges, workforce trends, interviewing practices, selection decisions, and recruitment best practices.
• Develops proactive sourcing strategies for specialized and difficult-to-fill clinical positions, including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, athletic trainers, and imaging professionals.
• Builds short- and long-term talent pipelines in clinical disciplines where candidate availability or the number of local educational programs may be limited.
• Develops applicant-generation strategies for higher-volume positions, including nurse technicians and other inpatient nursing support roles.
• Builds relationships with colleges, universities, clinical education programs, professional associations, community organizations, and other external partners to support current and future workforce needs.
• Uses innovative sourcing techniques, recruitment technology, professional networks, events, referrals, and direct outreach to identify and engage qualified, diverse active and passive candidates.
• Ensures the timely and accurate posting of positions, review of applicants, and submission of qualified candidates for hiring leader consideration within the applicant tracking system.
• Provides complete, accurate, and engaging information to candidates regarding…