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Manager, Talent Acquisition – Nursing

Phoenix Children's Hospital

Phoenix Children’s Hospital is looking for a Manager, Talent Acquisition – Nursing.

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The Opportunity

The Manager, Talent Acquisition Nursing, is responsible for planning, developing, managing, and overseeing talent acquisition and recruitment processes, strategies, and staff. Responsible for specific talent pools within nursing areas and identifying and implementing solutions to create and maintain pipelines of talent for multiple locations at Phoenix Children’s. This leader will have responsibility over 4 nursing recruiters in addition to one scheduler.

Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Leads, oversees and supervises members of the recruiting team.
    1. Designs, improves, and monitors recruitment workflows to ensure processes and performance are effective and efficient.
    2. Coaches team members to achieve departmental goals, leverages data/metrics, leads projects and manages direct reports in an inspiring manner.
    3. Establishes procedures and processes for Talent Acquisition staff.
    4. Leads with an operational focus, setting strategy, objectives and growth plans for future facilities.
  2. Develops sustainable talent acquisition and hiring plans and strategies.
    1. Designs, plans and executes employer branding activities in conjunction with the Marketing team
    2. Encourages employees to be brand ambassadors.
    3. Monitors and creates campaigns for the employee referral program.
    4. Ability to interface with and develop effective internal and external partnerships.
    5. Team player with ability to work with various stakeholders and levels of employees/executives.
    6. Trains new TA staff to ensure consistency in execution of TA process and metrics.
  3. Collaborates with IT to ensure the applicant tracking system (ATS) is functioning at optimal levels for an ideal candidate experience.
    1. Develops and monitors reports from ATS on key indicators of recruitment workload and performance of recruiters.
    2. Collaborates with IT on process improvement initiatives.
    3. Ensures the team is fully leveraging the ATS while working to achieve overall customer satisfaction.
  4. Performs analysis of hiring needs and provides employee hiring forecast.
    1. Delivers on the needs of the business in adherence with efficiency goals set by the team each year.
    2. Suggests measures for improving employee retention.
    3. Finds bottlenecks in the recruiting process.
    4. Works with Compensation and Benefits to provide market information on salary and benefits and makes recommendations to remain competitive within the current labor market.
    5. Responsible for all TA metrics and surveys and provides leadership with updates using reports and HR dashboards.
  5. Designs, plans and executes selection processes.
    1. Collaborates with Hiring Managers and leaders on workforce planning and talent acquisition
      needs.
    2. Conducts interviews and screening calls, administers assessment tests, etc.
    3. Ensures hiring Managers experience a collaborative, proactive and customer-focused level of support.
    4. Reviews employment applications and background check reports.
    5. Explores proactive, traditional and innovative approaches to Talent Acquisition.
  6. Career fair and community administration.
    1. Provides training to leaders or other non-HR staff on process, expectation, and goal.
    2. Manages career fair calendar and staffing/representative coverage.
    3. Provides event summary, statistics, and results.
    4. Ensures competitive presence in the community and maintains positive relationships with vendors and community organizations that provide the hospital with opportunities to market job openings.
  7. Responsible for bi-annual performance reviews via Check-In for direct report employees.

Qualifications and Requirements

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, human resources, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, human resources, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Licenses/Certification​

  • Certifications related to HR/TA (e.g., AIRS, PHR or SPHR) preferred.

Special Skills​

  • Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent time-management skills.
  • Great interpersonal and communication skills/ability to work with various stakeholders. Ability to motivate employees.
  • Strong knowledge of Human Resources law preferred.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Additional

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal leader will be someone who has a passion for recruiting, leading a team, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be someone with prior nursing/clinical recruitment experience. This leadership role will have the opportunity to work on hard to fill jobs while supporting their team to successfully hire the best healthcare staff for their openings. Phoenix Children’s Hospital is still experiencing steady and continuous growth; therefore, this leader will need to be dynamic, flexible, and comfortable with change. A positive attitude with a passion for supporting and mentoring staff and working towards achieving goals is required.

More About the Organization

Phoenix Children's Hospital logo
1919 E Thomas Rd
Phoenix,
Arizona
85016

Phoenix Children’s has provided hope, healing, and the best healthcare for children since it was established in 1983, growing to become one of the leading pediatric healthcare systems in the country. With a medical staff of nearly 1,000 pediatric specialists and over 6800 staff, Phoenix Children’s provides inpatient, outpatient, trauma, and emergency care across more than 75 pediatric subspecialties, the most comprehensive pediatric care available in the state. The Hospital’s Centers of Excellence have grown in size and expertise to place them on par with some of the most prestigious of their kind in the United States.

For the 14th consecutive year, Phoenix Children’s is ranked among the nation’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” and is the No. 1 children’s hospital in Arizona. Phoenix Children’s is the only children’s hospital in Arizona ever to be recognized by U.S. News & World Report.

Over the next five years, Phoenix Children’s will build on its achievements and accelerate its investments in the people, research, technologies, and programs that will solidify its position as a world-class hospital for decades to come. That means recruiting clinical staff, providers and physician-scientists who will change the shape of medicine from right here in Phoenix; fostering discoveries that will improve the quality and length of children’s lives; establishing groundbreaking, destination programs that will attract young patients from around the world; and driving innovations that will give ill and injured children hope beyond their wildest dreams.

Phoenix Children’s is one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems. It comprises Phoenix Children’s Hospital—Thomas Campus, Phoenix Children’s Hospital— East Valley at Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, four pediatric specialty and urgent care centers, 11 community pediatric practices, 20 outpatient clinics, two ambulatory surgery centers, and seven community-service-related outpatient clinics throughout the state of Arizona.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital – East Valley: Last year in 2023, Phoenix Children’s opened the Mercy Gilbert Medical Center campus. The five-story, state-of-the-art hospital offers 24 pediatric beds, a 24-bed pediatric emergency department, surgical services, and diagnostic imaging. The centerpiece of the hospital is the Dignity Health and Phoenix Children’s Women’s and Children’s Pavilion, which integrates top-quality pediatric and maternity care and offers 24 labor and delivery rooms, 48 postpartum beds and a 60-bed Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Phoenix Children’s Specialty Clinics – Gilbert: These clinics opened to provide East Valley families with comprehensive pediatric specialty health services closer to home. The clinics bring together Arizona’s top pediatric subspecialists in high- demand areas including cardiology, orthopedics, cancer care and more.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital West Valley: The West Valley’s population is projected to grow at twice the national rate between now and 2025. Phoenix Children’s is growing its specialty, surgical, inpatient, sports physical therapy and emergency care to make it easy for West Valley kids to get the highly specialized pediatric health services they need and deserve.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital – Arrowhead Campus: This three-story pediatric hospital in Glendale offers inpatient care, an emergency department, a surgery center, and a multi-specialty clinic. The facility has 24 inpatient beds, 6 operating rooms, 2 minor procedure rooms, 30 emergency bays/trauma rooms, and a 45,000-square-foot clinic to house orthopedics, neurology, cardiology, oncology, and numerous other in-demand specialties.

Phoenix Children’s – Avondale Campus: Located in Avondale, this campus includes a 71,250-square foot multi-specialty clinic offering care in high-need specialties including cardiology, orthopedics, and psychology. A freestanding emergency department offers 24/7 emergency care; 40 triage, treatment, and resuscitation patient rooms; six fast-track beds; and comprehensive imaging services.

Strategic Areas of Focus

  • Growth: Phoenix Children’s will grow by expanding service lines; enhancing geographic coverage; aligning with physicians, hospitals, and networks; expanding research and academic programs; and improving financial performance.
  • Integration: Phoenix Children’s will become a clinically integrated organization aligned with physicians and organizations committed to improving quality across a full range of care while effectively managing the total cost of care.
  • Quality: Phoenix Children’s will identify and implement changes that continually improve clinical quality, patient safety and customer service, using evidence-based best practices.

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