At Elara Caring, we have a unique opportunity to play a huge role in the growth of an entire home care industry. Here, each employee has the chance to make a real difference by carrying out our mission every day. Join our elite team of healthcare professionals, providing the Right Care, at the Right Time, in the Right Place.
Job Description:
Strategic Workforce Acquisition Team (SWAT)
Full Time/Mon through Fri/Remote
This is not a traditional recruiter role.
The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist – SWAT Recruiter is a high-impact, senior-level talent partner who deploys into Elara Caring’s most complex, urgent, and business-critical hiring needs. As part of our Strategic Workforce Acquisition Team (SWAT), you will be trusted to step into hard-to-fill roles, stabilize hiring gaps, and deliver results where speed, strategy, and expertise matter most.
SWAT Recruiters are problem-solvers and change agents—moving across service lines and geographies to support fluctuating workforce demands, priority initiatives, and operational challenges. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy autonomy, and take pride in solving the toughest recruiting problems, this role was built for you.
At Elara Caring, we believe the best care happens where people live. Every day, our teams support more than 60,000 patients across the country with high-quality, compassionate care in the home.
Talent is at the heart of that mission. As a Senior TA Specialist – SWAT Recruiter, your work directly impacts patient care by ensuring our clinical and operational teams are fully staffed, supported, and set up for success.
Own the toughest hiring challenges.
You will parachute into high-priority, urgent, and difficult-to-fill requisitions and immediately bring structure, momentum, and results.
Act as a strategic recruiting partner.
Collaborate closely with hiring managers and operational leaders to assess workforce needs, clarify expectations, and align on hiring strategies that work in real-world conditions.
Design and execute custom recruiting strategies.
Go beyond job postings—leveraging creative, data-driven, and non-traditional sourcing approaches to reach active and passive talent.
Source with intention and expertise, including:
Professional networking platforms and social media
Advanced internet and job board sourcing
Cold outreach, referrals, and pipeline development
Networking events, job fairs, and campus recruiting
Niche advertising and industry-specific channels
Build pipelines that last.
Develop and maintain strong, reusable talent pipelines across service lines and regions.
Serve as a trusted advisor.
Provide hiring leaders with market insights, candidate intelligence, and honest guidance on hiring challenges, timelines, and opportunities.
Stay agile.
Shift seamlessly between service lines and priorities as business needs evolve—without losing momentum.
Protect the candidate experience.
Balance speed with quality while ensuring a positive, transparent, and compliant hiring process.
Use data to drive decisions.
Leverage recruiting metrics to identify obstacles, recommend solutions, and continuously improve outcomes.
Impact over volume – You focus on the hardest roles, not endless req loads
Autonomy and trust – You’re empowered to act, decide, and execute
Strategic visibility – Embedded with leaders during critical hiring moments
Constant challenge – No two deployments look the same
Built for senior recruiters who thrive in fast-moving, high-stakes environments
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in healthcare, high-volume, or multi-site environments
Proven success filling hard-to-fill, niche, or urgent roles
Advanced sourcing expertise across multiple platforms and channels
Strong stakeholder partnership and influence skills
Comfort navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and tight timelines
Data-driven mindset with a continuous improvement approach
Make a direct impact on patient care through strategic hiring
Join a mission-driven organization that values partnership, agility, and innovation
Operate at a strategic level while staying hands-on in recruiting
Be part of a specialized SWAT team designed for experienced, high-performing recruiters
This role is ideal for senior recruiters who enjoy stepping into complex hiring situations, owning the outcome, and delivering results that truly matter.
We value the unique skills of veterans and military spouses. We encourage applications from military veterans and their families.
Elara Caring provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age (40 and older), national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law.
Elara Caring participates in E-Verify and we will provide the Federal Government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States. Employers like Elara Caring can only use E-Verify once you have accepted the job offer and completed the Form I-9.
At Elara Caring, pay and compensation are determined by a variety of factors, including education, job-related knowledge, skills, training, and experience. Our compensation structure reflects the cost of labor across different U.S. geographic markets, and may vary based on location.
This is not a comprehensive list of all job responsibilities and requirements; upon request, a job description can be provided.
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