Physician Recruiter (10-12 hours per week)

## Company Description At Northwestern Medicine, every patient interaction makes a difference in cultivating a positive workplace. This patient-first approach is what sets us apart as a leader in the healthcare industry. As an integral part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to join our quest for better health care, no matter where you work within the Northwestern Medicine system. We pride ourselves on providing competitive benefits: from tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness to 401(k) matching and lifecycle benefits, our goal is to take care of our employees. Ready to join our quest for better? ## Job Description - 1 to 2 days a week. - 10-12 hours a week. The **Physician Recruiter** reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards. The Physician Recruiter is responsible for sourcing and recruiting qualified physicians for the medical staff of the hospital and assisting in the development of strategic physician recruitment in the institution. In addition, this position focuses on helping retain and strengthen the medical staff through practice enhancement and development activities. Serve as the hospital’s physician recruiter in order to engage targeted physician specialists and ancillary providers to enhance medical staff development at Northwestern Memorial Hospital while maintaining the mission of the Staffing Department. The Physician Recruiter exhibits keen strategic thinking abilities as related to competitive assessments of the market, contract execution, negotiation strategy, and a self-directed work style. The Physician Recruiter has an innate ability to establish new and maintain existing relationships with Northwestern Memorial affiliates and demonstrates enhanced problem-solving techniques. The Physician Recruiter must maintain the highest customer service standards, as measured by high productivity and consistent high quality that addresses the practice opportunities NMHC affiliates. Demonstrates poise and maturity when encountering unforeseen situations. This customer services standard must show a visibility of and responsibility toward patients and their families, the Medical staff, and throughout the NMHC campus partners. Excellent interpersonal skills in varying situations are imperative. **Responsibilities:** - Responsible for coordination of the initial and on-going contact with physician applicants, assessment and screening of physicians’ backgrounds and interests. - Build relationships with NMHC physicians and office staff. - Work with physician practices, NM hospitals, physician representatives, recruitment agencies, and residents in developing and implementing ongoing physician and provider recruitment strategies and initiatives to ensure strategic goals and objectives. - Enhance physician availability through utilizing national database tracking system to uncover a larger pool of physician candidates. - Coordinates advertising and public relation strategies, to include special events, related to Physician and Provider recruitment, and is responsible for sourcing candidates using the most advanced methodologies to achieve cost effective and efficient recruitment processes. Provide extensive “value added” services/programs to resident campaign efforts in conjunction with Alumni Affairs, Graduate Medical Education, and the Feinberg School of Medicine. - Provide summary of recruitment activity on a quarterly basis. - Review and update current corporate website for best practices for physician recruitment - Review, analyze, and provide updates of Medical Staff Diversity Initiative, communicate findings to manager, director, and director of the office of diversity. - Work with Medical Directors to access their needs and potential recruitment plans. - Coordinate all activities related to recruitment of phy…