The problem
A health center can go six months without filling one licensed clinical role. The remaining clinicians carry the extra caseload, quality slips, and turnover follows.
Filled in weeks,
not quarters.
Magaña Advisory keeps a standing bench of vetted LCSWs, therapists, and behavioral health clinicians in Chicago, so community health organizations stop carrying open clinical seats while their teams absorb the caseload.
“I find the right people, and I build the systems that keep them.”
Angelica M. Magaña, Founder
- 15 years in HR
- Ten of them inside community health, behavioral health, and social care
- Chicago based
- Chicagoland searches, plus remote and hybrid roles
- Bilingual
- English and Spanish, candidate facing and client facing
Why this exists
Hiring is what is broken, not the workforce.
In community health the clinicians exist. What is missing is a recruiter who knows where they are, speaks their language, and is already talking to them before your seat opens.
The approach
I keep a warm, screened bench of clinicians who are open to the right role, so candidates are ready before the vacancy is posted. One flat monthly fee, not a percentage of anyone's salary.
The result
The seat is filled in weeks instead of quarters, your clinicians stop absorbing what is not theirs, and the money stays in patient care.
Services
Three ways organizations work with me.
Built for nonprofits, federally qualified health centers, behavioral health providers, and social care organizations that are not ready for a full time people team.
Hard to fill clinical search
The lead offer. Sourcing, screening, and delivery of licensed clinicians for the roles that stay open the longest.
- Vetted, consented candidate bench
- Bilingual and bicultural sourcing
- Flat monthly fee, one or more roles
Fractional recruiting
Your recruiting function, run by someone who has done it inside community health for a decade, without the cost of an in house team.
- Full cycle recruiting across roles
- Hiring manager coaching and intake
- Interview structure and scorecards
People strategy
The systems that keep the people you just hired. Practical, right sized, and built for a mission driven budget.
- Onboarding and retention design
- Compensation and leveling review
- HR foundations and compliance
Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Therapists and Counselors
Behavioral Health Clinicians
Clinical Supervisors
Case Managers
Program Directors
The math
Priced so that filling more roles costs you less, not more.
Contingency search firm
20 to 30 percentof first year salary, per hire. Every additional hire raises the bill, so the incentive is volume and speed rather than fit and retention.
Magaña Advisory
One flat monthly feeRetained, not contingent. Candidates are sourced continuously, and hiring more people in a month does not increase what you pay.
Candidates are never charged a fee of any kind. Magaña Advisory is compensated solely by the hiring organization.
Who you are working with
Angelica M. Magaña
Fifteen years in human resources, ten of them inside community health. I spent those years as the person on the other side of the problem, the HR director trying to fill clinical roles for organizations doing serious work on thin margins.
I watched good clinics lose good candidates to a slow process, and I watched search firms quote fees that would have paid for half a program. Magaña Advisory is the answer I wanted back then: someone who already knows the Chicago clinical market, who is honest about what a role can realistically attract, and who is paid to build a pipeline rather than to close one deal.
I work bilingually in English and Spanish, which matters in a city where the clinicians and the patients who need them are often looking for the same thing.
Which seat has been open the longest?
Bring me that one. Fifteen minutes is enough for me to tell you whether I can fill it, and what it will realistically take.
Book a 15 minute call