The Locum’s Nest App
Revolutionising flexible working for all healthcare professionals
Manage your shifts, timesheets and your pay all from one secure place.
60K+
healthcare professionals
450+
healthcare organisations
25M+
hours of patient care delivered
NHS Trusts in collaborative partnerships
40+
Your favourite features
Staff bank memberships
Calendar view
Save shifts
Share shifts
Swipe to bookmark shifts you’re interested in. Look out for the double heart icon - it means others are interested in that shift too.
Swipe to share a shift with your colleagues in a group chat.
Stories and articles
Messaging
Our friendly team has written a wealth of useful FAQ articles that cover all your questions. If you need to speak to a human, feel free to message us through the app.
We will detect other similar shifts to the ones you’re interested in and suggest them to you.
FAQs and support
Block bookings
Urgent shifts
Personal profile
Whether you prefer browsing shifts from a list or from a calendar, we’ve got you covered. Subscribe to your preferred dates to get a notification when shifts become available.
Send all your pre-employment checks to your staff banks of choice with the click of a button and easily track your application’s progress through the app.
Timesheet tracker
Escalated rates
Know exactly where your timesheet is in its approval journey all the way through to payroll, with our handy timesheet tracker.
When a shift pays higher rates than normal, you’ll see an orange arrow indicating that the pay rates have been escalated.
Chat with your colleagues, rota coordinators and the Locum’s Nest support team throughout the app.
Head over to the stories page to discover latest news and useful articles.
Manage your professional profile through your very own digital passport. Use it to join your preferred staff banks, upload your documents, build your CV and get answers to all your questions.
Keep an eye out for the red shift cards - these are urgent shifts, advertised within 48 hours of their start time.
Join a collaborative staff bank and access flexible working across 40+ NHS Trusts
With one staff bank membership, you can enjoy the freedom of working seamlessly across all your favourite Trusts without having to duplicate any of your paperwork!
Top Resources
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WEBINAR
Flexible Working for Healthcare Professionals
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Dr Ahmed Shahrabani: Why I returned to clinical practice
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QI INITIATIVE
Support for Quality Improvement projects
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GUIDE
Removing the stress from taking time off: How to switch off when work is busy
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Workforce technology on a mission to support NHS staff wellbeing (Part 1)
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Designing workforce technology with NHS staff wellbeing in mind (Part 2)
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FAQs
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Locum’s Nest, the workforce technology company listed in The Telegraph’s “Top 5 ideas to save the NHS” is on a mission to solve the NHS staffing puzzle. The flagship product, Locum's Nest Match, connects 60,000+ healthcare professionals to vacant work in 50 NHS Trusts and hundreds of GP practices. The software is used by NHS Trusts to electronically advertise and fill bank shifts and submit timesheets digitally. The Trust remains the employer and is responsible for the payment of timesheets submitted via the app.
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Download the Locum’s Nest mobile app from the Google Play or Apple App Stores.
You’ll be automatically affiliated with your Home Trust, however if you are new to the trust you are able to request to join via the app. Medical Staffing teams will review your application and process your request to join the trust.
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Signing up to the Locum’s Nest app and using its features is absolutely free of charge for all our healthcare professionals.
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No! We cater to all healthcare professionals including medics, nurses, midwives, AHPs, dentists, vets and more!
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A collaborative staff bank is a formal collaboration between a large number of Trusts which have agreed between them to share their staff banks with each other through Locum’s Nest.
This means that a healthcare professional from one staff bank can easily work shifts at any of the other Trusts in the collaborative without duplication of paperwork or delays in payment.
For more specific information on each collaborative bank, see below:
The Digital Collaborative Bank
North Central London Medical Collaborative Bank
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For any questions, please email support@locumsnest.co.uk
