Urgent Search Talent Acquisition Specialist

Seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist with a knack for sourcing passive candidates and building strong talent pipelines to join our team.

01st August, 2025

Do you thrive on building strong networks and turning conversations into opportunities?

We're on the lookout for a proactive, confident, and people-driven Talent Acquisition Specialist who lives for the hunt—and knows how to find top talent where others wouldn't think to look.

Join our energetic People & Culture team and help us grow our national Allied Health workforce. This is your chance to use your sales-savvy, people-first mindset, and headhunting experience in a purpose-driven organisation making real impact in communities across Australia.

The Position

Reporting into the People and Culture Manager, you'll be the driving force behind our sourcing strategy, with a strong focus on identifying and engaging passive candidates. This temporary position (with the potential to become permanent) involves sourcing Allied Health professionals in a candidate short market and will be responsible for:

- Using your headhunting and sales skills to proactively source top Allied Health professionals through platforms like LinkedIn, Seek Talent Search, and more

- Getting creative with recruitment strategies and communications that cut through the noise

- Managing end-to-end recruitment—screening, scheduling, reference checks, and offers

- Representing Empower at job fairs and industry events

- Collaborating with the broader P&C team on employer branding, retention, and other exciting projects

- Managing our recruitment database and talent pools in Job Adder

The role will provide you with the autonomy to manage your own talent pools and be creative with how you recruit - basically no idea is a bad idea

Do you have what it takes?

We are looking for a self-motivated person with a high degree of initiative that takes ownership of their work and demonstrates a proactive attitude. A Recruiter with the drive, energy, and persistence to proactively headhunt candidates and facilitate end-to-end recruitment. You will also have:

- Experience in a recruitment role, ideally within a candidate short market

- High attention to detail and ability to adapt to shifting priorities

- A friendly attitude and strong relationship-building skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Good organisational and administrative skills with the ability to prioritise multiple tasks

- Intermediate computing skills and the ability to use applications such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)

- Experience in a cold calling sales role is highly advantageous

- Experience with Job Adder (desirable)

Why you should join our Awesome Team

- Modern office in the brand new Morris Moor complex with onsite parking

- Competitive salary packages that grow as you do

- Employee discount and benefits portal

- Free counselling support through our Employee Assistance Program

- Parental leave

- Paid external professional development and study leave

- Loyalty service awards including vouchers, annual dinner, and company-sponsored holidays

- Quarterly Employee Recognition Program

What's on offer?

- Attractive salary with uncapped incentives

- Flexible working arrangements (hybrid)

- Supportive, inclusive, and high-performing workplace culture

- Modern office, great working environment, and culture

- Paid external professional development and study leave

- Employee discount and benefits portal

- Employee Assistance Program

- Loyalty service awards including vouchers, annual dinner, and company-sponsored holidays

- Quarterly Employee Recognition Program

- Lucrative referral bonus

Our Story

At Empower Healthcare, our purpose is to deliver exceptional care that positively impacts peoples' lives.

We have an impressive offering of services spanning Home Care, NDIS, and Residential Aged Care including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Dietetics, Osteopathy, Massage, Speech Pathology, Allied Health Assistants, and Nursing. With more than 180 clinicians across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia, we are changing lives.

Our commitment is to deliver exceptional care by expert clinicians with an aim to enhance independence and improve the quality of life of the people we care for. We are here to empower everyone to live their best life.

Follow the link to find out what it's like to work at Empower Healthcare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkple4LN3cs

APPLY NOW

or email liliang@empowerhealthcare.com.au if you have any role-related inquiries.

At our core, we believe that everyone deserves access to high-quality healthcare, regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, age, or any other factor. We are committed to creating an environment that is welcoming and inclusive to all. We are dedicated to removing any barriers that may limit access to our services and to promoting diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our work.

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