Healthcare Applicant Tracking System

A healthcare ATS built for fast, compliant, multi-site hiring

Whether you're recruiting nurses, care assistants, clinicians, or support staff, Pinpoint is the healthcare ATS that keeps every hiring stream organized in one place. From care homes and senior living groups to multi-site clinics, it's the ATS built for the complexity of healthcare hiring.

Pinpoint healthcare applicant tracking system showing talent pipelines for nurses, care assistants, and support staff
The ATS trusted by healthcare hiring teams

Why healthcare recruitment needs a different kind of software

Healthcare teams often recruit for very different roles at the same time, from high-volume nursing hires to specialist clinicians and back-office staff. The right healthcare recruitment software needs to support them all without adding more admin.

Pinpoint brings hiring and compliance into one process. Teams can manage credential checks, right-to-work, references, and candidate records alongside recruitment, rather than relying on spreadsheets and disconnected systems.

For multi-site organizations, local teams can manage their own hiring while central teams keep visibility and reporting across every location. This gives teams a more consistent process and clearer records across every location.

Pinpoint background checks showing compliance tracking for a registered nurse, including criminal check and OIG Exclusion

How to choose the best ATS for healthcare recruitment

Choosing the best ATS for healthcare means finding one that runs volume clinical hiring and specialist searches at the same time, without either slowing the other down. Look for credential and right-to-work checks built in, site-level access controls, and audit-ready records as a by-product of the process rather than a job someone does afterwards.
Be ready for CQC inspections at any time
Every check, gap, and decision is logged and timestamped. Export complete hiring records on demand, so when inspection day comes, you’re already prepared.
License verification and credentialing
Ensure that no mandated training or compliance steps are missed including verification of licenses, certifiations, education, right to work, criminal background checks, and drug screening.
Run high-volume and specialist hiring side by side
From administrative staff to nursing campaigns and consultant-level searches, every stream can be managed with its own process, so one never slows down or disrupts the other.
Give each site control without losing oversight
Site teams manage their own hiring while central HR keeps full visibility across roles, locations, and decisions.
Keep your bank staff bench ready
Tag and track bank staff, seasonal workers, and past candidates, so when demand spikes, you reach proven people first.
Fill urgent roles without starting from scratch
Warm candidates in your talent CRM mean you can move quickly when gaps appear, without launching a new search every time demand shifts.
“Keeping everything in Pinpoint means we’re all on the same page without needing side communication. It’s made the entire process easier and more consistent.”
Taylor Griesbach
Talent Acquisition Partner, Aspire Allergy & Sinus

One platform to hire every healthcare role

Configurable hiring workflows

Pinpoint lets your team configure distinct hiring processes for registered nurses, support workers, bank staff, allied health roles, and non-clinical positions, all running in parallel inside one platform. Each workflow has its own stages, required checks, and approval chain. Nothing bleeds across, and every role type follows exactly the right process.

Pinpoint workflow builder showing a registered nurse hiring process with phone screen, interview, assessment, and offer stages

Pre-employment checks

Pre-employment checks are configured as required stages in Pinpoint's workflow and conducted within the platform. Your team tracks the status of every check per candidate, receives alerts for anything outstanding, and cannot progress a hire until every required verification is complete. The full record is CQC audit-ready and exportable at any point.

Pinpoint background checks showing compliance tracking for a registered nurse, including criminal check and OIG Exclusion

Talent pool management

Pinpoint's talent pools let your team build and maintain a database of bank workers, trusted temporaries, and previous applicants, tagged by role type, site, and availability. When gaps open up, you reach into the relevant pool and contact warm candidates immediately, cutting the time and cost of going back to agencies every time demand changes.

Pinpoint talent pools showing role-specific pools for nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants, and physiotherapists

Role-based access controls

Ward managers and site-level HR see only their own live roles and candidate pipelines. Divisional or central HR has cross-site visibility and reporting. Named access controls mean a candidate in one location cannot be seen from another without explicit permission, keeping sensitive data protected across a complex, distributed organization.

Pinpoint user management showing role-based access controls with per-user job visibility across teams and sites

Everything healthcare teams need in one ATS

Enhanced DBS and safeguarding checks via Certn
Right-to-work and overseas clinical staff verification
CQC audit-ready personnel file export
NHS Jobs and specialist healthcare board integrations
Bank and locum staff talent pools
Multi-site access controls
Clinical competency scorecards for panel interviews
Volume nursing campaign management
Occupational health clearance tracking
Regulatory reference management for clinical appointments
Anonymous screening options
Offer management and approvals
Interview scheduling and coordination
GDPR-compliant candidate records
Reporting and hiring analytics by site and role type
Employer branding tools for clinical talent attraction
Healthcare

Centralized

hiring across multiple states

Faster

and more consistent hiring for a one-person team

Fewer

interview no-shows for high-volume roles

“I don't see us outgrowing Pinpoint. The team's commitment to customer feedback and continuous product improvement makes them a partner we're excited to build with long term.”
Taylor Griesbach
Talent Acquisition Partner
Nonprofit

Strengthened

candidate engagement

Increased

candidate trust

Reduced

reliance on paid ads

“Pinpoint has completely changed how we work. We're more efficient, more consistent, and better equipped to give every candidate a great experience.”
Emma Bishop
Resourcing Manager, Blue Cross
Technology

50%

reduction in candidate lifecycle time

100%

increase in candidate hiring volume

Increased

efficiency in admin tasks

“Other recruiting solutions focused on what we thought we wanted, but after five minutes of talking with Pinpoint, we realized that's not what we want or need. We actually want a solution that helps us manage inbound interest and track the workflow.”
Eddie Abrams
VP of Engineering, BigHat Biosciences

Trusted by healthcare hiring teams

Award winning and highly rated
Secure and compliant by design
Keep hiring moving when it matters most
Fill urgent roles, stay audit-ready, and manage every hire in one place with Pinpoint
G2
4.8
Capterra
4.8
SSR
4.8

Healthcare hiring FAQs

A healthcare applicant tracking system is software that helps healthcare hiring teams manage applications, screening, interviews, candidate communication, and hiring workflows for clinical, care, support, and head-office roles.

In healthcare recruitment, an ATS is an applicant tracking system used to manage candidates through the hiring process. It helps teams organize applications, track hiring stages, collect feedback, and keep recruitment workflows consistent across roles, locations, or departments.

The best ATS systems for healthcare are the ones that support high-volume hiring, specialist clinical roles, compliance-related workflows, structured interviews, candidate communication, reporting, and multi-site visibility. The right choice depends on how your healthcare organization hires.

Look for a healthcare ATS that supports structured screening, interview scheduling, compliance workflows, hiring manager collaboration, candidate communication, reporting, talent pools, and integrations with relevant background-check or credentialing providers.

Yes. Pinpoint works for any healthcare organization that hires across multiple role types — NHS trusts, private hospitals, community care providers, GP practices, and care homes. You can configure separate workflows for clinical, non-clinical, and specialist roles, with the access controls and compliance tracking each requires.

Most teams are live within a few weeks. We configure your workflows, compliance check requirements, site access controls, and job board connections before your first role goes live. Implementation is handled by our team directly.

Yes. Pinpoint runs volume nursing campaigns with the checks built into the workflow, so credential verification and pre-employment screening happen as candidates progress rather than piling up at offer stage. Each site's campaign runs on its own timeline while central teams track progress across all of them.

Look for fast mobile applications, since care candidates apply on their phones and drop off quickly. Look for credential tracking that flags expiries before they bite. And look for site-level permissions, so individual homes can hire without waiting on head office for every step.

Candidates apply in a few minutes without creating an account, and automated communication keeps them informed between stages. Faster responses mean fewer candidates accept elsewhere while they're waiting, which is where most homecare hiring loses people.

Yes. Each hiring stream in Pinpoint runs independently with its own stages, panels, and timelines. A nursing campaign and a consultant-level search can both be active simultaneously without either affecting the other's pipeline or creating confusion for your hiring managers.

Pinpoint keeps a complete record of every pre-employment check, every hiring decision, and every action taken during the process. Personnel file exports are available on demand, so when a CQC inspection requires evidence of how a hire was conducted, your records are already organized and complete.

Pinpoint integrates with Certn to run Enhanced DBS, basic and standard DBS, right-to-work verification, and overseas criminal record checks for internationally qualified clinical staff. All checks are triggered from the candidate record at the appropriate stage, and results are linked back automatically.

Pinpoint's pre-employment compliance workflow can be configured to flag incomplete employment history before an offer is confirmed, helping your team meet the requirements of safer recruitment guidance. Every action is logged so your records show how any identified gap was addressed.

Yes. Pinpoint's competency scorecards let you build role-specific interview frameworks for clinical roles. Every panel member scores candidates against the same criteria, and all feedback is captured in one place. The record is structured, reviewable, and ready for any scrutiny your HR or compliance team needs.

Yes. Pinpoint lets you create talent pools for specialist roles that take time to fill. Tag candidates by clinical specialism, site, and seniority. When a vacancy opens, you can contact people who've already expressed interest and know your organization, cutting time-to-fill on your most competitive roles.

Yes. Pinpoint supports multi-site hiring with fully configurable access controls. Hiring managers at individual sites manage their own roles. Your trust's HR team has oversight across all sites and all roles. Reporting is available at site level, specialty level, or trust-wide, depending on what your team needs.

Yes. Anonymous screening removes candidate names and identifying details during the initial sifting stage, helping your hiring managers focus on skills and experience. It supports fairer, more inclusive shortlisting and is available for any role type in your Pinpoint settings.