Job Overview

About Sentara

Sentara Health is an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system with more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission: we improve health every day. Sentara exists to be the trusted partner to individuals and the community in their journey to improved health and well-being, and is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, with 12 hospitals across Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina.

Everything we do is guided by our core values: People, Quality, Patient Safety, Service, and Integrity. As the Talent Acquisition Manager over Acute/Post-Acute Recruitment, you'll live these values daily by building the workforce that makes our mission possible.

Why This Role Matters

As the Talent Acquisition Manager over Acute/Post-Acute Recruitment, you'll shape the operational foundation of our talent strategy across acute and post-acute care settings, ensuring we attract, engage, and hire exceptional clinical and operational talent across our system. This is one of two Recruitment Manager roles reporting into the Director of Acute/Post-Acute, and you'll lead a team of 12-15 team members, including recruiters and coordinators. In a healthcare landscape where acute and post-acute talent is highly competitive, this role is central to our ability to deliver quality, safe patient care across the continuum.

Job Summary

The Talent Acquisition Manager, Acute/Post-Acute is responsible for planning, developing, managing, and overseeing operational Talent Acquisition staff and system-wide recruitment initiatives dedicated to acute and post-acute care roles. This position is one of two Recruitment Manager roles reporting into the Director of Acute/Post-Acute, and leads a team of 12-15 recruiters and coordinators, owning all full-time, part-time, flexipool, and temporary hiring across acute and post-acute settings.

This Manager leads the operational framework for the acute/post-acute recruitment strategy, establishing programs and policies that drive contemporary, data-informed practices tailored to the realities of clinical and operational hiring, including licensure requirements, specialty pipelines, and competitive labor markets. This position serves as an influential advisor who understands evolving staffing needs and stakeholder expectations, translating them into innovative sourcing and recruitment strategies.

The Manager builds and maintains the organization's employer brand within the acute and post-acute care community, owns workforce planning for hiring needs across these settings, and tracks key metrics such as time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and quality-of-hire, using that data to continuously strengthen team performance.

This role influences outcomes and communicates closely with Talent Acquisition Advisors, Consultants, and Specialists focused on acute/post-acute recruitment, sharing best practices and modeling a customer-focused approach to understanding the needs of hiring leaders across these care settings. The Manager oversees the effective attraction, screening, selection, and development of a high-performing, diverse, and sustainable talent pipeline that supports safe staffing levels and quality patient outcomes at scale.

This role requires maintaining confidentiality and operating with efficiency and integrity in a fast-changing clinical staffing environment, while driving accountability and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of 12-15 recruiters and coordinators, as one of two Recruitment Managers reporting into the Director of Acute/Post-Acute
  • Develop and execute recruitment strategy, programs, and policies across the system
  • Own full-cycle hiring oversight for full-time, part-time, flexipool, and temporary roles
  • Lead workforce planning and hiring forecasts in partnership with clinical and operational leaders, and HR Business Partners
  • Build and strengthen employer brand presence within the acute and post-acute care community
  • Monitor and report on recruitment metrics (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality-of-hire, specialty pipeline health) to drive continuous improvement
  • Coach, mentor, and develop Talent Acquisition Advisors, Consultants, and Specialists focused on acute/post-acute recruitment
  • Partner with hiring leadership using a consultative, customer-focused approach to fill high-acuity and hard-to-fill specialty roles
  • Ensure compliance with licensure, credentialing, and hiring requirements throughout the recruitment process
  • Maintain confidentiality, integrity, and operational efficiency in a fast-changing environment

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field required
  • 5 years of recruitment experience and 3 years of leadership experience required; recruitment leadership experience preferred
  • Experience managing a team of recruiters at scale (high-volume hiring environment) preferred
  • Experience with applicant tracking systems and recruitment analytics platforms preferred
  • SHRM-CP/SCP or PHR/SPHR certification preferred

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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