DescriptionSenior Physician RecruiterSummaryThe Senior Physician Recruiter is responsible for developing and executing comprehensive physician recruitment strategies for assigned specialties and service lines. This role partners closely with physician leadership, executives, and operational stakeholders to identify workforce needs, build candidate pipelines, and attract highly qualified physicians and advanced providers to UCHealth.
The Senior Physician Recruiter serves as a trusted consultant throughout the recruitment lifecycle, driving sourcing strategies, candidate engagement, market intelligence, and employment negotiations while ensuring an exceptional candidate experience and alignment with organizational goals. This position is an onsite role and does not offer a remote or hybrid option.
Responsibilities- Develop and execute recruitment strategies to attract highly qualified physicians for assigned specialties and service lines.
- Manage full-cycle physician recruitment activities, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, presenting candidates, facilitating site visits, and coordinating offer negotiations.
- Build and maintain robust physician candidate pipelines through networking, direct sourcing, referrals, professional associations, conferences, and market research.
- Conduct comprehensive candidate assessments to evaluate qualifications, clinical experience, leadership capabilities, career goals, and cultural alignment with the organization.
- Provide consultative guidance to hiring leaders regarding market conditions, recruitment trends, compensation intelligence, candidate availability, and competitive positioning.
- Collaborate with marketing, communications, and external advertising partners to create compelling recruitment campaigns and employer branding initiatives that strengthen UCHealth's market presence.
- Develop and maintain relationships with residency and fellowship programs, specialty organizations, physician associations, and training institutions to enhance recruitment efforts.
- Identify and engage passive candidates utilizing innovative sourcing techniques and targeted outreach strategies.
- Coordinate physician interview processes, site visits, and stakeholder engagement activities to ensure a positive candidate experience.
- Present physician opportunities to prospective candidates, effectively communicating organizational culture, strategic priorities, clinical resources, practice environment, and long-term career growth opportunities.
- Facilitate recruitment meetings and candidate reviews with physician and executive leadership to support hiring decisions.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of healthcare workforce trends, physician recruiting best practices, credentialing requirements, and regulatory considerations.
- Ensure recruitment processes are conducted in compliance with organizational policies, employment laws, and applicable healthcare regulations.
- Represent UCHealth at industry conferences, recruitment events, career fairs, and professional networking opportunities.
Minimum Requirements- High School diploma or GED required.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Marketing, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of two (2) years of physician recruitment experience required.
- Experience recruiting physicians within a large healthcare system, academic medical center, or multi-specialty medical group preferred.
- Demonstrated success managing multiple complex physician searches simultaneously.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities- Strong physician recruitment and sourcing expertise.
- Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong negotiation, influencing, and presentation abilities.
- Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems, CRM platforms, and recruitment technologies.
- Ability to analyze physician labor market trends and develop data-driven recruitment strategies.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Commitment to delivering an exceptional physician candidate experience.
Pay: $80,537 - $120,806 annual base pay. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience
Employees are our number one asset.
UCHealth promotes a culture that invests in professional success and personal well-being through a comprehensive total rewards program. *
Recognition
- Performance bonus: UCHealth offers a 3-Year Incentive Bonus to recognize employee contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, financial goals and tenure. The bonus accumulates annually each October and is paid out in October during the third year of employment.
- Performance-based pay increase: The Annual Merit Pay Increase recognizes work performance that meets or consistently exceeds performance standards documented through UCHealth's established evaluation process and accounts for increased experience, skills and cost of living.
- Market reviews: All UCHealth positions are reviewed annually to ensure UCHealth base pay aligns with market standards. Base pay rates are adjusted as needed to stay market competitive.
Health and well-being
- Medical, dental and vision coverage.
- Access to 24/7 mental health and well-being support for employees and dependents.
- Discounted gym memberships and fitness resources.
- Free Care.com membership.
- Voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal plan, identity theft protection, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, and employee discount programs.
- Time away from work: Paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence.
- Employer-provided basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options.
- Employer-provided short-term disability and long-term disability with a buy-up coverage option.
Retirement and savings
- 403(b) plan with employer matching contribution.
- Additional 457(b) plan may be available.
- Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent day care; health savings account available when enrolled in high-deductible (HD) medical plan.
Education and career growth
- UCHealth provides access to academic degrees and certificate programs to promote professional and personal growth.
- Up to 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees.
- Other programs may qualify for up to $10,000/year pre-paid by UCHealth or up to $5,250/year in the form of tuition reimbursement.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers thousands of virtual courses and seminars, and internal professional development opportunities.
- Employees have access to free assistance navigating the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and submitting their federal student loans for forgiveness.
* Eligibility for some programs is based on an employee's scheduled work hours.
UCHealth always welcomes talent. This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.
