locum work, how much experience is needed?

Re: locum work, how much experience is needed?

Charmaloo88 — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:25:14 GMT

Honesty is best policy. I love locuming and found I was inundated with work within 24 hours of signing to just one agency! Most practices feedback to the agencies and word of mouth is worth more than any amount of experience. If you're confident you won't have a problem.

Re: locum work, how much experience is needed?

Craig McDonald — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:45:36 GMT

Seems to be lots of locum work about at the moment.

Re: locum work, how much experience is needed?

fnewboult — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:32:29 GMT

Hiya, I think as long as you're honest with practices about when you qualified and what you are and aren't happy doing then you shouldn't have too much of a problem. I qualified around same time as you, also via degree, had a few permanent jobs that didn't quite work out (one practice was quite far away and found the travelling harder than I thought I would and second it was mutually agreed that it just wasn't working out) and started locuming around February time. I've not had too much of a problem finding work (granted I've not actually moved on from the practice I started out at but have had plenty of details of vacancies emailed to me that I would happily have followed up had they decided they no longer needed me at any point)