What is the Kent & Medway ICS Collaborative Staff Bank?

The Kent and Medway ICS is your opportunity to cross-cover shifts across 6 NHS Trusts giving you greater control and choice of where and how you want to work. Once you’re accepted into the Kent & Medway ICS Collaborative Staff Bank, you can easily book shifts at all other Trusts part of the Collaborative Bank, at the click of a button via the Locum’s Nest app!

The drive to grow the collaborative is built on the ICS’s long-term vision to improve patient care while improving your working lives as clinicians. By benefiting from an enhanced work-life balance, you can focus on what you do best, looking after patients. Offering bank working options at neighbouring Trusts has shown to support clinicians’ job satisfaction as more rewarding.

The Kent & Medway ICS Collaborative Staff Bank is available for all grades and specialities of doctors.

Who is part of the Kent & Medway ICS Collaborative Staff Bank?

6 NHS Trusts are part of the collaborative (4 Acute, 1 Mental Health and 1 Community Trusts) and includes the following:

  • One of the largest hospital trusts in North Kent serving a local population of over 500,000. The Trust has 3 sites - Darent Valley Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital and Erith & District Hospital.

  • The Trust has 5 hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people. It also provides some specialist services for a wider population, including renal services in Medway and Maidstone and a cardiac service for all of Kent based at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford.

  • One of the largest NHS community health providers in England, serving a population of about 1.4 million across Kent and 600,000 in East Sussex and London. The Trust provides a wide-range of NHS care for people in the community, including people’s own homes, nursing homes, health clinics, community hospitals, minor injury units and in mobile units.

  • Serves a population of more than 424,000 across Medway and Swale at a single-site hospital based at Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham. The Trust provides clinical services to almost 500,000 patients a year, including more than 125,000 Emergency Department attendances.

  • Provides secondary health services to 1.7 million people across Kent and Medway, both in the community and within inpatient settings. Also offers some learning disability services and a range of specialist services.

  • A large acute hospital Trust in the south east of England and provides a full range of general hospital services, and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south of West Kent and the north of East Sussex. The Trust provides specialist cancer services to around 1.9 million people in Kent, Medway and East Sussex.

Benefits of joining the Collaborative Bank

  • Go where your skills are needed

    Browse through collaborative bank shifts on your mobile app and see where your skills are most needed. Support your peers by sharing shifts of interest with them.

  • Hassle-free shift booking

    With our Digital Passport technology, you can book bank shifts at any of the trusts in the medical collaborative without the hassle of completing any additional paperwork.

  • Build your CV and experience

    Apply for shifts in your chosen specialty either at your home trust or one of the collaborative trusts and maximise on working with new teams and organisations.

  • Stay flexible and in control

    Choose the shifts that work for you and fit around your lifestyle whilst easily managing all your collaborative bank shifts & timesheets via the Locum’s Nest mobile app.

 Frequently Asked Questions

  • Home Trust is where you are based normally, and where you will have completed all required onboarding and recruitment checks initially. This is typically the trust that you do the majority of your work at.

    Working Trust is where you can apply to work other shifts in the other trusts as part of the collaborative.

  • Medics already approved to work in one of the Home Trusts (for those part of The Kent & Medway ICS Collaborative).

  • Embrace the opportunity to pick up bank shifts at any of the Trusts in the collaborative without the hassle of completing reams of paperwork.

    Joining the collaborative bank allows you the flexibility of applying for shifts in your chosen specialty whether it be at your home Trust or one of the collaborative Trusts; building your CV and experience.

    Share shifts with your friends and colleagues which may be of interest to them and support your peers.

  • 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.

  • 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 50,000+ 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.

  • Make sure you add your CV, complete your employment history and populate as much information as you can in the app to increase your chances of being booked for a shift.

    If something needs updating you will be prompted/guided through your Digital Passport.

  • For any questions, please email support@locumsnest.co.uk

  • All rates will be advertised per shift on the app.

  • Timesheets are approved in-app, keeping everything simple in one place, and are processed by your home trust in line with their payroll frequency. Contact your Home Trust for more information. This will be the trust where you hold your home staff bank membership, not the trust where you completed the shift. If the timesheet has been submitted and you have any pay-related queries, please speak to your home staff bank payroll team.

  • Please speak to the payroll team in your Home Trust for more information.

  • Contact the Working Trust for further information, or send a message via the app to the departments.

  • Please ensure any changes in your details are communicated to your Home Trust. Personal details stored in Locum’s Nest are not directly linked to your payroll department.

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