Overview Ardent Health Services (AHS) is a national health care services company headquartered in Nashville, TN. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent owns and operates nearly 200 sites of care. Our subsidiaries own and operate hospitals and multispecialty physician practices in six states. Ardent includes 30 hospitals, 4,423 patient beds, 23,000 employees, and 1,700 employed physicians. Within the industry, we are noted for recognizing that every hospital is as unique as the community it serves. This in-depth understanding of how health care works at the local level is one of our great strengths. POSITION SUMMARY The Provider Sourcing Specialist sources, screens and refers quality candidates through various databases, recruits both passive and active candidates to fill provider needs, communicates and develops strong relationships with Recruiters and leadership, attends national and local recruitment events to build our candidate pipeline and educates upcoming providers on Ardent Health. Responsibilities Lead provider sourcing activities for specified provider specialties to ensure open provider positions are filled in an efficient manner with qualified providers to represent Ardent. Source, screen and refer quality providers to hospitals to include mining and review of candidate CV’s, cold calling, database review and entry, extensive phone interviews with potential providers. Post jobs through internal and external databases, utilizing advanced sourcing techniques to identify qualified passive and active candidates. Assist with the generation and implementation of new, streamlined recruitment processes, initiatives and key messaging. Serve as the first point of contact in the candidate screening process and introduces the provider to the Recruiter. Manage and maintain applicant tracking system (ATS) to ensure all jobs are accurately posted on the corporate website, track candidate information, and implement sourcing strategies and referral process/pipeline provider databases, which include posting and maintaining accurate job openings and descriptions to attract candidates to apply for open positions. Accountable for the opening/hand-off of the Provider Interview Form process. Collaborate with AVP to create recruitment strategies for assigned specialties to include internal and ex-ternal website utilization, marketing initiatives, and provider recruitment associations. Collaborate with the Recruiters to complete the Opportunity Profile process to ensure all relevant position information is received, accurate and up to date, and posted in the applicant tracking system. Conduct strategy meetings with key stakeholders as needed to collect additional information for Opportunity Profile. Participate in bi-weekly and monthly group calls and assigned work groups to provide feedback and of-fer best practice suggestions to overcome barriers in the field Communicate with leadership and Recruiters regarding process, provider opportunities, and candidates in the pipeline. Strategically utilizes staffing agencies and external search firms and serves as liaison between recruiters and staffing agencies/search firms. Manage all candidates presented to hospitals and ensure that firm presentations are detailed and accurately completed. Participate in local and national recruitment/networking events and meetings. Qualifications Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience. Minimum of 2 years’ related experience. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Regular and reliable attendance. Business Mathematical Skills -- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs. Moderate Computer Skills – Frequent use of electronic mail, word processing, data entry, spreadsheets, graphics, etc. Ability to create, maintain and incorporate simple functions into documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations to support business objectives. Moderate Communication – Regularly uses moderately complex oral and written skills. May train others in functional areas, interact with others and make presentations to department or middle management. Routine Business Problems – Problems encountered are routine, somewhat repetitive and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures. Job Specific Impact -- Decisions generally affect own job or assigned functional area. Moderate Independent Judgement -- Results are defined; sets personal goals and determines how to achieve results with few or no guidelines to follow; supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction. Moderate Planning/Organization -- Handle multiple tasks simultaneously with moderate complexity. Minimum overnight travel (up to 20%) by land and/or air. Maintain current knowledge of emerging technology to stay abreast of innovative sourcing trends and recruitment best practices.