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:

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist – SWAT Recruiter

Strategic Workforce Acquisition Team (SWAT)

Full Time/Mon through Fri/Remote

The Opportunity

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.

About Elara Caring

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.

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What You’ll Do

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.

Why This Is a True SWAT Role

• 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

What You Bring

• 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 conti