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JOB DESCRIPTION OVERVIEW:
The Locums Sourcing Specialist’s primary responsibility is to manage locum opportunities, candidate submissions and provide assistance to external Locums agencies to facilitate the selection of new clinicians for critical open locum positions. The Locums Sourcing Specialist assists with the onboarding process and the maintenance of the Locums providers. This position maintains key relationships to ensure fulfillment of all locum clinician staffing assignments that cannot be serviced by TEAMHealth Locums.
ESSENTIALDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintains relationships with external Locums agencies while maintaining the integrity of the tiered vendor plan.
- Maintains familiarity with staffing locums for a single service line with potential cross training into multiple.
- Communicates weekly updates of open locum opportunities to D&Y and external agencies.
- Opens and closes opportunities in Axess and TeamWorks.
- Logs all necessary action is TW for internal and external locum
- Performs name clears, candidate submittals and leadership approvals of internal and external candidates within 24
- Submits all locum presentations within 24 hours to VPO, RMD, FMD and Account Manager.
- Negotiates with agencies on rates within predetermined thresholds and escalates “out of threshold” rates to D&Y Account Manager for
- Coordinates clinical screening / interview with agency for locum candidate (if applicable) and required leadership in a timely manner; provides feedback to external agency within 72 hours.
- Coordinates an instructional email with expectations for agency / provider upon leadership approval of locum candidate.
- Notifies TH Clinical Onboarding Liaison and D&Y Account Manager of acceptance of external candidates and, notifies D&Y Account Manager, Recruiting Manager, Recruiter and Credentialing Manager of acceptance of internal locum candidates.
- Initiates the request for completion of the TeamHealth Questionnaire to agency upon leadership approval and follows up on return within 72 hours.
- COL notifies LSS if external THQ is not received within 4 days and escalates issues to D&Y Account Manager for decision regarding withdrawal of locum candidate.
- Notifies contracting to initiate the CAR process upon receipt of signed confirmation.
- Initiate CAR terminations related to withdrawals to Contracting.
- Serves as a liaison between clinical facility leadership and the external locum
- Facilitates annual compliance training with agencies for existing external locums.
- Performs special projects and other duties as needed that may be assigned by management.
