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LOCATE A LOCUM
REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU HAD TO RUMMAGE THROUGH YOUR PHARMACY FOR BUSINESS CARDS TO FIND THAT LOCUM WHO YOU LIKED FROM 4 MONTHS AGO, ONLY YOU COULDN’T REMEMBER THEIR NAME, NOR COULD YOU FIND THEIR CARD? REMEMBER WHEN YOU WASTED 50 MINUTES LAST TUESDAY, RINGING EVERY LOCUM IN YOUR PHONEBOOK TO COVER A SHIFT, ONLY TO END UP WORKING IT YOURSELF AND MISSING THAT DAY AWAY WITH YOUR SPOUSE?
After registering on our website, and having received an initial welcome and verification call, Pharmacy Plus was able to start posting their gaps straight away. We keep in regular contact through email updates and push notifications to their account.
Within a matter of seconds, locums were booked into shifts. Overall Locate a Locum was able to reduce Pharmacy Plus’ average time to book a locum by over 80%
Jonathon Clarke and Michael Budden Locate a Locum W
e know that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to source locum pharmacists.
The digital landscape is becoming more competitive, making it tougher for locums to see your job advertisements. There are dozens of recruitment agencies who are taking power away from hiring managers and placing locums in areas which suit their needs. Many locums have given up the lifestyle and have moved into new jobs within GP surgeries. How are you planning on sourcing locums in the future?
Having already registered over 8000 pharmacies and a whopping 4100 pharmacists from across the UK and Ireland, Locate a Locum is filling locum shifts in under one minute, and we can do it for you too!
Advertise locum shifts for free on our easy-to-use booking diary, and manage your temporary staffing in a paperless environment. Post your shifts in advance so you can avoid those stressful calls to your phonebook contacts, or cover those emergency shifts with the click of your mouse!
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Once you post a shift on our system, locums within 50 miles of your pharmacy will receive an app notification, highlighting all the key information about your shift. Locums then apply in one tap and your shift is covered in less than one minute!
Want to know more about the applicant before you book them in? On our system you can! Check your applicant’s qualifications and accreditations on their Locum Profile and unlike the traditional recruitment agency model, you’re in control of the pharmacist that you hire.
Locums who work through Locate a Locum undergo a rigorous vetting procedure, ensuring that you’ll have a registered and fully compliant pharmacist working within your premises. We carry out such checks so that you don’t have to.
How has Locate a Locum performed for clients? Pharmacy Plus found it increasingly difficult to source locums due to their regular locums moving into Practice Pharmacist posts. This resulted in increased locum costs and staff time dedicated to sourcing locums.
‘We saw Locate a Locum while searching the web for locum pharmacists and we registered immediately on their website. We had a great chat with Alison who helped us to register our branches and post our first shift. She walked us through the application process and we haven’t had needed to have much contact since. We get regular emails to keep us informed of what’s happening with our account and we can run reports at the click of a button. It was great that we can easily book locums online, rather than spending hours on the telephone. Thanks guys.’
In a recent turn of events, and after months of discussion, Locate a Locum has developed an exciting relationship with McLernon Computers, the leading supplier of pharmacy dispensing and business technology in Ireland, north and south.
McLernons are renowned for their innovative and intuitive MPS Dispensing system and have undertaken a brand collaboration with Locate a Locum. The McLernons’ MPS contains a direct integration with the Locate a Locum system, offering a speedy and reliable service for pharmacy employers and human
resource staff to source locum cover.
The collaboration will enable employers and pharmacy managers to work off one, easy to use, online platform and save hours of human resource time, so that they can concentrate on what matters to their branches.
Keith McLernon said of the collaboration, ‘It’s an exciting time for technology in the pharmacy sector and we have a number of different solutions for our customers, ranging from innovative new software features to a number of patient and pharmacy apps. We have also integrated MPS with a number of automatic and robotic systems, as we see the very real benefits that such integration can bring to our customers.
Pharmacy managers and their HR staff have an ever-increasing workload and the Locate a Locum platform will save time and money for those who use it, whether you own one pharmacy or forty. One of the things that I see as a key differentiator for us from our competitors is that we lead innovation, not follow it, and I am sure that the pharmacy profession and Locate a Locum users will see the benefits of this new collaboration over the next few months.”
Jonathon Clarke from Locate a Locum is eager to see the fruition of the relationship with McLernons, claiming, ‘It’s a real feather in our cap to develop such a relationship with one of the most instantly recognisable names in Irish pharmacy. We’re keen to see how the relationship develops and we’re looking forward to learning from each other. As a locum pharmacist, I know the pressures
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