Services — Hiring & Succession Planning

Locum Recruiting

Qualified locums, found and ready to work. We source, engage and verify temporary clinicians across specialties and grades — availability checked, compliance confirmed, rates qualified — so your shifts and rotas get filled, even at short notice.

Shifts don’t wait — neither do we

We source, engage and verify locum clinicians so every candidate you receive is genuinely bookable.

Give us the rota, the gap or the standing demand, and our research team actively sources locums across the relevant specialties and grades — approaching clinicians directly, checking real availability, verifying compliance status and qualifying rate expectations before anyone reaches your desk.

Use us for short-notice gaps, seasonal pressure, or to build a standing locum bench that makes every future gap easier to cover. Billing is by project, never a cut of the placement.

Every locum recruiting engagement includes:

  • Active locum sourcing across specialties and grades
  • Availability genuinely checked before handover
  • Compliance status verified — registration, right-to-work, key documents
  • Rate expectations qualified against your bands
  • Short-notice gap-filling and long-term bench building

Sample Pages

A look at what we hand over — dummy data shown. Use the arrows on either side, swipe, or the arrow keys to browse.

Example Projects

October rota cover programme — sample cover
October Rota Cover — GP Practices South West · Primary care Download
Radiology locum bench build — sample cover
Locum Bench Build — Radiology UK-wide · Standing bench Download
Winter pressure locum pool — sample cover
Winter-Pressure Pool Emergency medicine · Seasonal Download

The benefits of research-led locum recruiting

Shifts filled faster

Direct, parallel sourcing across the specialty reaches available locums in hours — and a standing bench makes every subsequent gap quicker to cover.

Cleared & ready to work

Compliance status is verified before handover, so the locum you book is one who can actually start — no last-minute file surprises.

Better fill rates

Every unfilled shift is lost revenue and a strained client. Systematic sourcing and escalation lifts fill rates — and keeps the client relationship strong.

Where locum recruiting helps

Locum recruiting flexes from single urgent gaps to standing programmes. Here are the most common uses:

Short-notice shift gaps — clinical team coordination

Short-notice gaps

A sickness call at 7am, a rota gap for the weekend — the shifts that hurt most arrive with the least warning.

We run priority sourcing across the specialty at pace, with availability and compliance checked, so an urgent gap becomes a booked shift instead of a lost one.

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Building a reliable locum bench

Building a reliable locum bench

The agencies that fill fastest aren’t sourcing from scratch — they’re booking from a warm, maintained bench.

We build and refresh standing benches by specialty and region: engaged locums with known availability patterns, verified compliance and agreed rates, ready to book.

Hard-to-fill specialties coverage

Hard-to-fill specialties

Some specialties are permanently scarce — and reactive sourcing consistently comes up empty.

We map the whole locum population for the specialty, approach clinicians directly, and qualify what it actually takes to book them — turning “no one available” into options.

Our process

From a single gap to a standing programme, in general this is how we’d work with you:

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Take the shift, rota or bench brief

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Source and approach across the specialty

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Check availability and verify compliance

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Qualify rates and confirm the booking

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Cover, report and refresh the bench

Why recruit locums with Audentia?

Filling shifts is a research problem at speed: knowing who exists, who’s available, who’s compliant and what it takes to book them. That’s exactly what our team does — as an extension of yours.

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Genuinely bookable

Availability, compliance and rates are checked before handover — candidates you can book, not just names.

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Specialty coverage

Medical, nursing and allied health, across grades and regions, shaped to your client demand.

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Project fees

Billed by project, never a cut of the placement — so scaling cover doesn’t scale your costs.

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Bench thinking

Every engagement leaves you with a warmer, better-known locum pool for next time.

Testimonial
“Winter used to mean unfilled shifts and apologetic calls to clients. Audentia built us a standing emergency-medicine bench in the autumn, and through the whole season our fill rate stayed above ninety percent. Every locum they hand over is genuinely available and genuinely compliant — the difference that makes is enormous.”

Managing Director — Specialist medical staffing agency

Locum recruiting case studies

Winter pressure fill rate case study

Holding a 90% fill rate through winter

A standing bench built in autumn carried our client through peak pressure — fill rates held above ninety percent all season.

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Short-notice GP cover case study

Same-day cover for a GP federation

A sickness cluster left three practices short for the next morning. Priority sourcing had all three sessions covered by early evening.

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Radiology scarcity case study

Options in a “no one available” specialty

Mapping the full radiology locum population turned a dead-end brief into a working shortlist — and two long-term bookings.

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See all our case studies

Working across your time zones

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Let's fill the rota.

A thirty-minute conversation is usually enough to scope the specialties, volumes and turnaround you need.