A medical recruitment company that focuses and specialises on short, medium and long-term temporary assignments, with both public and private healthcare services.

Never. Generally speaking locum recruitment is a candidate-short sector and the medical recruitment agency gains their fee from the health service where you as a locum doctor is placed.

Blugibbon in fact incentivise you to locum through our reward programs and “Spin The Wheel” extravaganza!

The word locum is fairly unique to healthcare, and apparently is derived from the Latin language and phrase “locum tenens”, translated to “place holder”.

Locum doctors fill in for periods of increased demand, while a permanent doctor is being recruited or when planned or unplanned leave of regular staff occurs.

Medicare Provider Numbers are needed in 99% of locum work, you may already have a regular one you use if you are a GP or Specialist in your standard position, but sometimes you will not.

Regardless, a new Provider Number is applied for for each and every location you work through, simply let Blugibbon take care of the application process for you.

We hear the same frustrations from clients and candidate - ‘not enough doctors and its a nighmare manageing department roster.’

Blugibbon partnered with Core Schedule (an online rostering tool) to try and solve some of the problems we hear all the time.  

We have a number of clients that have thanked us so much for an introduction, saving them time, ensuring the dpearment is safely covered and providing the locum clarity on when and where they are working next.

As a locum doctor you can work right across the 24-hour clock. Depending on the speciality and need you could be asked to work mornings, days, afternoons, evenings or nights.

Your roster is usually set before you head off for your locum and if you are lucky you will get to work a nice block of days!