Filling In discusses how the new locum dental group will benefit locum dental nurses, dentists, dental therapists and dental hygienists.
Filling In offers a completely free opportunity for dental-workers seeking flexible, convenient and satisfactory patterns in their working lives, making it quick and easy to find dental practices who need cover – both urgently and non-urgently.
The bespoke, tailored and unique website provides locums with the ability to control and manage their dental compliance including certificates, CPD and vaccination records. The service also features prompts for renewal dates and updates.
Managing the space
As dental professionals we all have career ambitions and goals – Filling In can help locums find these, chase them and attain them. Whether you’re a dental nurse seeking more flexible hours for further study, balancing family life or becoming involved in specific fields within the profession (eg implant dentistry), or a dentist who wants to dedicate some of their working week to private dentistry, Filling In can cater for these requirements.
The group allows locums to choose their working location, days, hours and rate of pay, but also the type of role they’re looking for – whether this is an NHS or private position, or sub-divided into the field of dentistry (eg orthodontics, oral surgery, endodontics etc).
Locums don’t need to sacrifice time in the working week to uptake further work. Weekend and evening availability will be an option that is a browsable option when locums are searching for a role that suits them.
Filling in the numbers
Prospective dental locums are also rewarded financially as the website uses an intelligent algorithm. This produces either an hourly rate (dental nurses, dental therapists and dental hygienists) or a day rate (dentists). The algorithm has a basic starting salary, which will be enhanced with additional skills, experience and availability. Within 48 hours the figures below are enhanced straight away and the website collects payment details for an automated transaction.
- Dental nurses – from £16 per hour
- Dental therapists and hygienists – from £34 per hour
- Dentists – from £660 per day.
These figures are further enhanced according to inputting the above further information (experience, skills and availability) and calculated by our intelligent algorithm in a hassle-free method via our website. This will also appraise the timings of the working patterns (ie increased rates for evening and weekend dental work), experience within dentistry and the skill level of the locum.
Location, location, location
Having both worked in locum dentistry before, the co-founders of Filling In recognised the challenge in discovering opportunities within a convenient location. Having the opportunity to browse the availability of dental locum vacancies in a mileage-based radius opens up options for dental locums to be able to use Filling In also as a browsing platform.
They can identify opportunities in towns and villages nationwide that may previously have been excluded or become concealed beneath opportunities in larger cities or bigger dental practices/dental corporates.
The long-term prognosis at Filling In
Filling-In provides locums the opportunity to accrue loyalty benefits. The variety of bonuses include being positioned higher when prospective employers search in our database, reward vouchers (eg Amazon), and enhanced remuneration as additional shifts are accumulated and successfully worked. This works alongside an attendance performance reward scheme also. Those loyalty benefits will accumulate and grow alongside the locum.
The group also does not discourage locums from accepting a permanent role that a dental practice may offer them – in fact, the opposite. One of the key motives for the co-founders of Filling In is to assist the recruitment needs of the dental practices but also allow and enable the locums to find a position in which they are happy and feel secure. In which case, the group welcomes a permanent contract between parties.
Summary
Filling In provides the whole dental community with an option to develop or enhance their existing income, or to be able to build a career as a dental locum, or even to find a permanent position that may or may not have been desired from the outset.
The intelligent algorithm attached to the websites enables dental locums to achieve higher – optimising professional skills and personal attributes to enhance income. This will be based on availability, experience and skills.
The website allows for the ability to search, browse and secure locum roles/shifts nationwide, with dynamic ease and simplicity. It removes the difficulties of awaiting communication from a third party or delegating this responsibility to another.
The ability to input their formal documentation onto a system that will prompt locums to update or add CPD, documentation and certificates when needed.
Reward schemes are attached to loyalty and attendance and Filling In actively encourages discussions between parties regarding the option of a permanent role.
For more information, visit www.filling-in.co.uk.
