Senior Care.
Executive search and operational leadership across the full continuum of senior care. Sourcing the operators, clinicians, and administrators who carry your P&L.
Senior care is an operating discipline, not a staffing problem.
Most search firms treat senior care like a subcategory of general healthcare. We don't. We know that running an assisted living community, a skilled nursing facility, or a multi-branch home health agency is a unique operating challenge defined by survey windows, margin compression, labor density, and complex reimbursement models. The leaders who run these facilities successfully are rarely looking at job boards. They are actively running operations elsewhere.
Our senior-care practice is built on James Pemberton's core recruiting philosophy: we do not float resumes. We qualify the client, define the search boundaries, map the passive market branch-by-branch, and present only candidates who have cleared strict operating screens. We run under an engaged search model to ensure our senior partners have the dedicated time to execute the search properly.
We serve national providers, regional operators, private-equity portfolio companies, and single-site operators across assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, home health, hospice, and pediatric therapy.
Why Platforms Choose Engaged Search
Where the search lives.
Senior leadership and niche-headhunter roles. The recruiter assigned to your search has spent a decade in this segment.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
OPERATIONAL LEADERS
CLINICAL DIRECTORS
THERAPY & SOURCING
Senior Care, specifically.
The questions hiring operators send in the first call.
What types of senior care operators do you work with?
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We work across the entire continuum of senior care: assisted living facilities (ALFs), memory care communities, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), home health and hospice agencies, and private equity platforms consolidating senior care portfolios.
How is your engaged search model structured for senior care?
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Engaged search is a mutual commitment. The client pays a small deposit up front to activate our research and mapping engine, and we dedicate a senior partner to own the search end-to-end. The balance of the fee is paid only on placement, and the placement is backed by our written replacement guarantee.
Do you place clinical leaders like Directors of Nursing (DONs)?
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Yes. Clinical leadership is one of the deepest desks in our practice. We place CNOs, Directors of Nursing, and facility Clinical Directors. Because DONs directly affect your survey outcomes and clinical quality, we run rigorous screens on their survey history and payment-model fluency before submission.
How does ProHireHQ scale your senior care searches?
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ProHireHQ is our proprietary ATS and sourcing platform. It allows our headhunters to map passive candidates across the open web, run voice-AI screening for clinical credentials and licensure, and manage pipeline communication. This leaves our human headhunters free to focus on the deep qualitative interviews and references that ensure candidate fit.
What is your replacement guarantee?
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Because we stand behind our search process, our senior care leadership placements carry a written replacement guarantee. The window is negotiated with the engagement and set out in writing with the quote, because a Director of Nursing search and a multi-site CEO search do not carry the same risk. If the candidate leaves or is terminated inside it, we execute the replacement search at no additional cost.
Three paths from here.
You have a senior-care leadership or clinical seat opening in 60-90 days.
Run it as an engaged search. We map the passive local market, verify credentialing and survey records, and bring a calibrated shortlist inside four weeks.
Book a scoping call →You need volume clinical or caregiver staffing across multiple sites.
Leadership search won't fit this cadence. Our staffing-solutions division handles volume hiring and surge support for frontline frontline nurses and aides.
See staffing solutions →You want to evaluate the cost of hiring versus the cost of a vacancy.
An empty DON or Administrator seat costs thousands per day in premium contract staffing and lost referrals. Use our calculator to see the numbers.
Use the Vacancy Cost Calculator →Tell us the facility, the region, the seat.
We source executive directors, clinical administrators, and regional leaders who protect your licenses, maintain compliance, and drive occupancy. We deliver verified shortlists in 30 days.