Physician Integration Specialist, Senior

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Department: 38144 Enterprise Corporate - Physician Recruitment Status: Full time Benefits Eligible: Yes Hou rs Per Week: 40 Schedule Details/Additional Information: While this position is remote-based, it offers a highly collaborative and visible presence in the field, requiring regular travel to hospitals, clinics, and medical group locations across Milwaukee County and neighboring communities. Pay Range: $38.20 - $57.30 Join Us in Redefining Care At Advocate Health , we’re committed to helping people live well by delivering exceptional care with compassion, innovation, and expertise. We’re seeking a Physician Integration Specialist to support the physician and advanced practice professional recruitment, interview, hiring, onboarding, and integration experience across a defined market and/or service line. In this role, you’ll serve as a trusted site-level liaison and integration expert, partnering closely with physician/APC recruiters, operational leaders, medical group leaders, candidates, and families to ensure a smooth, welcoming, and highly coordinated recruitment and onboarding journey. About This Opportunity As a Physician Integration Specialist, you’ll play a key role in creating a best-in-class candidate experience while supporting workforce planning, onboarding, succession, retention, and clinician integration efforts. You’ll work closely with site and market leadership to provide timely communication, coordinate interviews and site visits, share market and community insights, and help ensure recruitment and onboarding processes are consistent, compliant, efficient, and candidate-centered. This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys relationship-building, project coordination, problem-solving, and serving as a connector between candidates, families, recruiters, physician leaders, and operational teams. What You’ll Do Serve as the primary site liaison during the pre-interview and interview process, providing consultation, education, and support to candidates, physician leaders, and recruitment colleagues. Partner with physician/APC recruiters to ensure a smooth, efficient, and effective candidate experience throughout the recruitment, interview, hiring, and onboarding process. Develop, coordinate, and schedule site visit plans, candidate itineraries, interviews, community tours, and related logistics. Educate candidates and their families on Advocate Health’s services, facilities, processes, culture, and local communities. Identify candidate and family needs, research resources as needed, and provide guidance to support relocation and integration. Maintain consistent communication regarding candidate status, itinerary development, market conditions, recruitment plans, and potential process concerns. Collaborate with operational and medical leadership to support assessment of candidate fit, including cultural alignment and skill match. Accompany candidates during site visits, gather post-visit feedback from candidates and leaders, and help evaluate the effectiveness of the visit experience. Partner with local administration, operations, medical group leaders, and recruitment colleagues to support development of practice descriptions and opportunity summaries. Support site-level workforce planning by identifying and communicating pending workforce concerns, recruitment trends, and potential retention opportunities. Brand and market Advocate Health by presenting the organization, services, programs, communities, and best practices in a consistent and compelling way. Maintain contact with new clinicians during the first year of employment to support a smooth transition, answer questions, resolve concerns, and gather scheduled feedback. Conduct exit interviews with departing clinicians, including retirees, and prepare reports for senior leadership to help track trends and identify opportunities for improvement. Monitor credentialing, privileging, and licensing processes in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to support timely completion after offer acceptance. Proactively identify potential delays or gaps in hiring, onboarding, credentialing, and integration processes and help facilitate timely solutions. Oversee onboarding in partnership with department colleagues, site leadership, and new hires to help ensure a successful transition. Coordinate and support new hire house-hunting activities, clinical/site orientation, hospital orientation, and related integration needs. What You’ll Bring Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Administration, Human Resources, or a related field. Typically requires 5 years of experience in provider relations, marketing, medical group operations, communications, physician/APP recruitment, or a related health care environment. Experience developing relationships with providers, educating providers on services and programs, and facilitating processes across multiple teams. Strong understanding of recruitment strategies, retention practices, business development, market development, and workforce planning. Ability to evaluate, address, and resolve complex issues and challenges with sound judgment and follow-through. Ability to recognize potentially problematic issues, understand organizational implications, and support effective resolution. Knowledge of the geographic area served, with the ability to provide community guidance to physicians and their families. Advanced knowledge of state and federal employment laws and regulations impacting recruitment, human resources, and organizational practices. Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with physicians, leaders, candidates, families, and colleagues. Strong negotiation, organization, prioritization, and project coordination skills. Experience leading and/or coordinating projects, including timeline development, implementation, follow-up, and evaluation. Ability to serve as a resource, provide guidance to others, and establish credibility through expertise, trust, and relationship-building. Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other system applications. Preferred Experience supporting physician and/or APP recruitment, onboarding, integration, provider relations, business development, marketing, clinic operations, or medical group operations. Experience working in a health care environment with physicians, APPs, operational leaders, physician leaders, service line leaders, hospital executives, and recruitment teams. Strong attention to detail, service-minded approach, and ability to work autonomously while collaborating with a broader team. Knowledge of local communities, hospitals, clinics, and health care markets within the assigned territory. Experience supporting clinician candidate visits, relocation needs, onboarding, retention, and post-hire integration activities. Physical Requirements and Working Conditions Generally exposed to a normal office environment. Position requires travel and may involve exposure to road and weather hazards. Must have functional sight, speech, and hearing. Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job. This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties. Our Commitment to You: Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including: Compensation Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job Incentive pay for select positions Opportunity for annual increases based on performance Benefits and more Paid Time Off programs Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs Educational Assistance Program Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview. About Advocate Health Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.