Job Overview

Physician and APP Recruiter

Overview

The Physician and APP Recruiter is responsible for full-cycle recruitment of physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) across Sentara Health. This position serves as a strategic recruitment partner to operational and physician leaders, supporting workforce planning and executing innovative sourcing strategies to attract top clinical talent. Primary recruitment responsibilities will focus on high-volume and difficult-to-fill specialties, including Anesthesiology or Primary Care (Family Medicine/Internal Medicine), while providing recruitment support across additional specialties and markets based on organizational priorities and business needs.

The Physician and APP Recruiter manages the recruitment lifecycle from requisition intake through candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer development, negotiations, and onboarding transition. This role develops and maintains strong candidate pipelines, builds relationships with residency and fellowship programs, professional organizations, and passive candidates, and represents Sentara at recruitment events and conferences. The recruiter partners closely with physician leadership, operations, credentialing, compensation, immigration, and onboarding teams to deliver an exceptional candidate experience while ensuring compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and recruitment best practices. Success in this role requires exceptional relationship-building, strategic sourcing expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority searches in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

Hybrid Schedule: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree (Required)
  • Business Administration, Human Resources, Healthcare Administration, Communications, Marketing, or related field (Preferred)

or

  • Bachelor's Degree plus four (4) years of relevant recruitment, healthcare, sales, business development, or talent acquisition experience may be accepted in lieu of directly related experience.

Certification/Licensure

Preferred:

  • AIRS, SHRM, LinkedIn Recruiter, AAPPR, or other professional recruiting certification.

Experience

  • Minimum of four (4) years of experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, physician recruitment, healthcare recruitment, executive search, sales, business development, or related field.
  • Experience managing full-cycle recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and candidate relationship management.
  • Experience recruiting for difficult-to-fill, high-volume, or highly specialized positions; physician or advanced practice provider recruitment preferred.
  • Demonstrated success building relationships with physicians, hiring leaders, operational stakeholders, and external recruitment partners while providing exceptional customer service.
  • Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems (Workday preferred), CRM tools, sourcing platforms, and recruitment marketing strategies to build candidate pipelines and achieve hiring goals.

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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