Job Description Summary
MUSC Health continues to expand across South Carolina and is seeking a highly strategic Physician Recruiter to manage physician recruitment for our MUSC Catawba Division. Serving a rapidly growing market just south of Charlotte, NC, this role is ideal for a recruiter who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, builds strong physician relationships, and partners closely with physician and administrative leaders.
Reporting Relationship: This role will have a direct reporting relationship to the System Director of Physician and Provider Recruitment and will work in close partnership with the CEO and CMO of MUSC Catawba to support system and market specific recruitment initiatives.
Entity
MUSC Community Physicians (MCP)
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Cost Center
CC004517 MCP - Physician Recruiting/Onboarding
Pay Rate Type
Salary
Pay Grade
Health-30
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Work Shift
Job Description
MUSC Health continues to expand across South Carolina and is seeking a highly strategic Physician Recruiter to manage physician recruitment for our MUSC Catawba Division. Serving a rapidly growing market just south of Charlotte, NC, this role is ideal for a recruiter who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, builds strong physician relationships, and partners closely with physician and administrative leaders.
Reporting Relationship: This role will have a direct reporting relationship to the System Director of Physician and Provider Recruitment and will work in close partnership with the CEO and CMO of MUSC Catawba to support system and market‑specific recruitment initiatives.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Actively contributes to the success of physician and provider recruitment at MUSC Catawba, including compliance with standardized recruitment processes, protocols, procedures and timelines, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Successfully complete assigned physician searches from initial approval through final negotiations
- Preparation of a comprehensive profile of the open position and practice, including challenges, barriers to successful recruitment and candidate parameters
- Review of specialty compensation benchmarks to MUSC compensation; make recommendations as required
- In collaboration with MUSC sourcing team, develop and implement targeted candidate acquisition strategies including budget by assigned search. Review with System Director for Physician and Provider Recruitment
- Screen, qualify and thoroughly vet candidates using established MUSC recruiting guidelines and tools
- Preparation and distribution of written candidate paperwork including interview notes, summaries, curriculum vitaes, references, NPDB self-query, etc.
- Serve as primary contact for physician candidates throughout the recruitment process, including facilitation of the on-site interview for candidates and spouses, significant others, partners, etc., assistance with the offer, contract negotiations as needed
- Utilize recruitment expertise to educate, consult and collaborate with physician and administrative business partners regarding the MUSC physician recruitment process, market availability of candidates, compensation, specialty trends, etc.
- Maintain a departmental knowledge base that includes a comprehensive physician recruitment tool kit including MUSC Practice Profiles, specialty training programs and contact information, current compensation trends by specialty, candidate acquisition methodologies by specialty
Support Responsibilities:
- Communication: Maintain accurate candidate and open position files to provide immediate search information as requested; prepare recruitment summaries or other reports as requested. Participate in recruitment meetings as requested; keep the System Director of Physician and Provider Recruitment and other business partners regularly informed about search progress
- Quality: Perform duties per established professional and ethical standards of MUSC
- Professional Development: Maintain an up-to-date knowledge base of the physician recruitment marketplace including overall marketplace knowledge, specialty trends, compensation, etc.
Preferred experience, knowledge, competencies and attributes:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
- Preferred minimum of three years physician recruitment experience (demonstrated full life cycle experience)
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact effectively with physicians and business partners at all levels of the organization
- Ability to function independently (minimal direct supervision) yet work effectively on a team
- Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities and a diverse workload while achieving results in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to problem solve and generate creative solutions to recruitment challenges while working effectively with physicians, administrative staff and business partners
- Excellent organizational, written and verbal communications skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (i.e. Word, Power Point, Excel, TEAMS, etc.), internet research, database functionality, etc.
- Strong customer service focus; ability to influence internal and external customers
- Ability to work some extended hours as needed
- Other duties as assigned
About MUSC Health Catawba Division: MUSC Health – Lancaster Medical Center is a 225‑bed, all‑private room facility that serves as a cornerstone of care for the Catawba region. With approximately 1,000 physicians and care team members, Lancaster Medical Center is driven by the belief that exceptional care is created through the power of people. Here, advanced technology and highly skilled professionals come together to deliver compassionate, patient and family centered care to the communities we serve.
As part of MUSC Health’s continued investment in this fast‑growing region, the Catawba Division is expanding services in Indian Land, including the development of a new medical facility designed to meet the needs of one of the state’s most rapidly growing markets just south of Charlotte, NC. This strategic expansion represents a significant opportunity to shape physician recruitment efforts in a high visibility, high impact growth area.
Life in Charlotte, North Carolina is the second-largest city in the southeastern United States and the third-fastest growing major city in the U.S. Excellent public-school systems and short driving distance to the beach and the mountains, make the Charlotte area a desirable place to live.
There are many great neighborhoods to choose where to live – Rock Hill, SC (home of Winthrop University), Ft. Mill, SC, Indian Land, SC, Charlotte, NC along with its many emerging suburban areas like Ballantyne and Waxhaw.
Additional Job Description
At MUSC Health, we empower you to “Change What’s Possible” by transforming expertise, learning and discovery into unrivaled patient-centered care in your setting. Our physician-led organization embraces and demonstrates our values of compassion, teamwork, diversity, accountability and innovation. With ties to South Carolina’s only comprehensive academic health science center in Charleston, we are committed to preserving and optimizing human life throughout the state through our vision to lead health innovation for the lives we touch. We support you with a competitive compensation and benefits plan, career and professional development opportunities, and access to the resources of an academic medical center.
If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!
