Job Overview

Director, Talent Acquisition/Recruitment – Acute & Post Acute Care

Location

Hybrid/Remote in Virginia within 200 miles of Sentara Park located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Relocation assistance available.

The Opportunity

As Director of Acute & Post Acute Talent Acquisition/Recruitment, you will lead a dedicated team of recruiters and coordinators focused exclusively on staffing our acute care hospitals, rehabilitation centers, skilled nursing facilities, and post acute care settings. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for a leader who thrives on building systems, developing teams, and solving complex healthcare workforce challenges at scale.

You will report to the Vice President of Talent Acquisition and serve as a key partner to nursing executives, regional presidents, and HR leadership across the system. You will also play a central role in a transformational moment for our TA function — including the launch of new AI-powered sourcing tools, redesigned workflows, and a strengthened employer brand.

What You’ll Do

Lead & Develop Your Team

  • Build, coach, and inspire a team of clinical recruiters and coordinators dedicated to acute and post acute talent acquisition
  • Create a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and exceptional service to candidates and hiring managers
  • Drive recruiter development through structured mentorship, training programs, and career pathing initiatives

Shape Strategy & Drive Results

  • Own and execute the acute and post acute recruitment strategy aligned with organizational workforce and patient care goals
  • Partner with nursing executives, regional presidents, and hiring managers to forecast staffing needs and build proactive talent pipelines
  • Lead the build-out of a dedicated Nurse Recruitment Pod — a specialized model designed to accelerate nursing talent acquisition across the system
  • Develop strategies to reduce time-to-fill, improve offer acceptance rates, and decrease reliance on agency and premium labor

Innovate & Optimize

  • Champion the adoption of AI recruiting tools, CRM platforms, and scheduling automation to modernize the recruitment experience
  • Redesign and continuously improve intake, sourcing, screening, and offer management workflows
  • Build multi-channel sourcing pipelines including social media, campus partnerships, clinical residency programs, employee referrals, and targeted campaigns

Measure What Matters

  • Track and report on KPIs including time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality of hire, offer acceptance rate, and requisition load
  • Provide regular market intelligence and recruitment performance updates to senior leadership and regional partners
  • Use national benchmarks and internal data to set realistic expectations and drive data-informed hiring decisions

What We’re Looking For

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field
  • 7–10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, with at least 5 years leading clinical or healthcare recruitment teams
  • Proven ability to build and scale high-performing recruitment teams in complex, matrixed health systems
  • Strong command of ATS platforms (Workday preferred), AI sourcing tools, and recruitment analytics
  • Experience managing agency partnerships, vendor performance, and premium labor reduction strategies
  • Exceptional communication and executive presence — comfortable engaging regional presidents, CNOs, and C-suite leaders

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in HR, Healthcare Administration, or Business Administration
  • SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or equivalent senior HR certification
  • Demonstrated success recruiting for acute care, post acute, nursing, or allied health roles in a high-volume environment
  • Experience with AI recruiting platforms such as Paradox, Findem, HireScore, or Talroo
  • Background in employer branding, EVP development, or recruitment marketing
  • Experience building specialized recruitment pods or center-of-excellence models within a health system

Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission – “we improve health every day.” Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, with 34,000 employees, 12 hospitals in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina including 10 hospitals with the prestigious Magnet® recognition, and the Sentara Health Plans division which serves more than 1 million members in Virginia and Florida. Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety, and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members. Sentara was named a Health Quality Innovator of the Year (2024), was recognized by Forbes as “America’s Best-In-State Employer” (2024), “Best Employer for Veterans” (2022, 2023), and “Best Employer for Women” (2020), and named to IBM Watson Health’s “Top 15 Health Systems” (2021, 2018).

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A woman smiling as a healthcare worker helps her with arm exercises in a bright, sunlit room.
A woman smiling as a healthcare worker helps her with arm exercises in a bright, sunlit room.

Our Culture

At Sentara, our differences are our strengths. The unique backgrounds, skills, and experiences that each Sentara colleague brings to work make Sentara special and allow us to deliver excellent service and care to our patients, members, and communities.

Our Benefits

We are committed to consistently enhancing our training, advancement tracks, work-life benefits, and more. Our goal is to make you feel more excited to be here every day!

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Two female doctors in lab coats smiling and chatting in a hospital hallway.
Two female doctors in lab coats smiling and chatting in a hospital hallway.
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Two nurses in scrubs smiling and chatting during a break, one holding a coffee cup in a bright hospital setting.

The Sentara Nursing Experience

Making a meaningful impact on health requires compassion, dedication, continuous learning, teamwork and collaboration. At Sentara, we also recognize that in valuing the professional and personal well-being of our nurses, we build a stronger, more supportive workplace for our nurses. And that’s making us healthier from the inside out. These principles unite our nurses across various roles and locations.

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The Sentara Clinical Experience

No matter where you choose to join us, in an inpatient or outpatient setting, you will be part of an interdisciplinary Clinical team passionate about quality care and patient safety. You will have access to the tools and technologies you need to succeed and the chance to learn and grow through training and educational programs so you can advance your career as a Clinical professional.

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The Sentara Support Services Experience

Each day, the Sentara Support Services team helps improve healthcare at more than 300 Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina sites. We perform various patient care activities, provide multiple services, and handle administrative functions that support our patients and their families. These vital functions include assisting the medical team in all aspects of medical care, such as treatments, procedures, and diagnostic and laboratory testing.

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The Medical Group Experience

As part of Sentara Health, Sentara Medical Group providers have diverse opportunities across regions and inpatient and outpatient locations. For those providers based in one of 12 hospitals, we have close working relationships with the administration, ensuring a collegial and collaborative environment where all can come together around shared initiatives.

Guided by a dedicated board of providers, Sentara Medical Group not only offers leadership opportunities for its providers but also underscores the group’s crucial role in fulfilling Sentara’s overarching mission to meet the needs of our diverse patient populations, some of our most vulnerable communities. Our physicians and APPs enjoy opportunities for both personal and professional career growth through a network of resources aimed to cultivate an environment suitable for a lifelong career home.

Your Perspective Matters

Nurses are the heartbeat of our exceptional team. Our approach empowers nurses to actively participate in decision-making. Our nurses have a stake in shaping their workplace as well as their own career growth; one of the benefits of our focus on supporting and valuing team members. This framework encompasses our nursing mission, vision, values, philosophy, and the essential elements of our Professional Practice Model.

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Visual representation of the Sentara Nursing Professional Practice Model.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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