What are the responsibilities and job description for the Talent Acquisition Coordinator - Confidential - Human Resources - Full Time position at Kern Medical?
Kern Medical has been a community cornerstone since its founding in 1867. Today, we are an acute care teaching center with 222 beds, offering the only advanced trauma care between Fresno and Los Angeles. Kern Medical offers a range of primary, specialty, and multi-specialty services including high-risk pregnancy care, inpatient psychiatric services integrated with county mental health programs, and a growing network of outpatient clinics providing personalized patient-centered wellness care. Kern Medical cares for 15,500 inpatients and 125,000 clinic patients a year.
Career Opportunities within Kern Medical include many benefits such as:
- New Hire Premium: 6% of base rate of pay, matched up to 6% if contributed to Deferred Compensation Plan.
- Confidential Pay: 5% of base rate of pay
- A Comprehensive Benefits Package: includes Holidays, Paid Time Off, Retirement, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance.
Position: Talent Acquisition Coordinator - Confidential - Full Time
Essential Functions:
- Facilitates and leads the entire onboarding & new hire orientation process for new employees & contractors.
- Manages high-volume onboarding workflows with competing deadlines. Identifies onboarding risks (delays, missing requirements, compliance gaps) and escalates appropriately. Ensures no candidate starts without full clearance and approval
- Applies established policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements
- Problem-solves onboarding barriers quickly and independently
- Maintains strict confidentiality and compliance standards while managing all personnel information
- In conjunction with the Employee Health works to ensure completion of all new hire pre-employment requirements.
- Collects, audits and processes all new hire paperwork to ensure compliance
- Reviews and makes recommendations for improving employee orientation process and implements recommendations upon approval from management.
- Assists in the scheduling of candidate interviews as needed.
- Participates in campus recruiting, career fairs, on-line job fairs, community network events, and social media.
- Ensures all onboarding activity aligns with approved requisition, position control number (PC#), and cost center prior to start date
- Conducts audits to ensure details on NOCA (Notice of Conditional Appointments) documents, employment offer details, and onboarding records for alignment with approved job data
- Performs other job-related duties as required.
Employment Standards:
- Completion of an associate’s degree from an accredited college or university in human resource management, business administration, public administration or a closely related field preferred, AND.
- One (1) -Three (3) years of experience in a Human Resources role, OR.
- Equivalent combination education/experience.
Knowledge of:
- Principles and practices in staffing and recruiting healthcare professionals, including nurse and physician requirements
- Job specifications and benefits to provide candidates with accurate information
- Understanding of preemployment requirements such as I-9 documents and E-Verify.
Ability to:
- Match candidate experience, knowledge and education to the needs of the Hospital recruiting efforts.
- Design, coordinate, and continuously improve new hire orientation experience
- Partner with departments (IT, Security, Staff Development, Employee Health) to ensure readiness for Day 1
- Coordinate department handoff (manager meet & greet, first-day expectations
- Analyze, prepare and present data in familiar formats, using statistics to illustrate points and justify decisions.
- Work independently
- Drive initiatives
- Express ideas in individual and group settings
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels.
- Collaborate with executive staff, physicians, and hospital employees.
- Manage high-volume onboarding workflows with competing deadlines
- Problem-solve onboarding barriers quickly and independently
- Maintain strict confidentiality and compliance standards
- Deliver a high-touch, service-oriented onboarding experience
Employees must maintain all health requirements designated by Kern Medical.
Supplemental:
Dependent upon assignment, applicants may be required to pass an extensive background investigation and be fingerprinted. Disqualification for felony, misdemeanor, and traffic offenses will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
All Kern Medical employees are designated “Disaster Service Workers” through state and local laws (CA Government Code Sec. 3100-3109 and Ordinance Code Title 2 - Administration, Ch. 2.66 Emergency Services.) As Disaster Service Workers, all county employees are expected to remain at work, or to report for work as soon as practicable following a significant emergency or disaster.
If position responsibilities require driving a personal vehicle, then possession of a current valid California Driver’s License and adherence to the Kern County Hospital Authority Vehicle Use and Driving Standard Policy (ENG-EC-119) is required.
If position responsibilities require driving a vehicle owned, leased or rented by Kern Medical, then possession of a current valid California Driver’s license, a signed authorization for Release of Drivers Record Information and adherence to the Kern County Hospital Authority Vehicle Use and Driving Standard Policy (ENG-EC-119) is required
Salary : $30 - $41