Find your perfect match

Digitalise your entire shift booking process for bank and agency to save time, resources and money.

Shift-matching software that delivers results

shifts filled using Locum’s Nest Match

2M

available healthcare professionals

60K

fill rate for all vacant shifts

97%

Advertise shifts to bank in seconds

Effectively advertise hundreds of shifts in seconds to your staff bank. Choose the target profession, departments and skills to maximise your reach across a pool of over 60,000 verified healthcare professionals.

Remain in control by transparently cascading shifts to agencies

Cascade through tiers of approved agencies by following your organisation’s authorisation policies, always remaining in control by approving the most suitable candidates through configurable bank-first policies.

Gain confidence in your payroll by digitising timesheets

Eliminate paper timesheets with multiple levels of digital approval to ensure gold-standard governance. Drastically reduce the amount of payroll-related queries (and errors) by providing a holistic, transparent and safe digital process all the way through.

Guarantee transparency and governance

Configure your own organisation’s rate cards, escalation processes and authorisations at any time. Rely on a clear audit trail to complement your organisation’s own processes.

Smart features for an easy life

Fast-track preferred
candidates

By pre-matching your preferred workers to shifts, you automatically notify them as soon as the shift becomes available and fast-track their approval.

Predict chances of matching using Machine Learning

Brought to you directly by our AI Lab, the Shift Popularity Index (SPI) predicts the chances of filling your vacant shift at the point of advertising.

Advertise lines of
work & block bookings

For long-term or persistent vacancies you can easily post hundreds of block shifts in seconds using preset templates, shift cloning or direct spreadsheet upload.

Effortless governance giving you a good night’s sleep

Enforce working-time regulations

Legally and ethically enforce your working-time policies including length of shifts and breaks during and in between shifts.

Control your agency spend

Cascade through your approved tiers of agencies through robust internal authorisation steps closing down backdoor deals.

Minimise cancellations

Book only named, verified and compliant workers. Ensure cancellations are actioned by your on-call teams with instant alerts and automatic promotion of cancelled shifts. Monitor and audit reasons for cancellations and enforce your disciplinary policies.

Rate & Demand control

Assign user roles to reflect your policies by mirroring your shift authorisation and rate escalation policies on the software. Report everything including who-authorised-what, reasons for vacancies and cost codes.

Achieve unimaginable synergies

Link to your e-roster

Link to your e-roster of choice with state-of-the-art API integrations which enable the seamless and bidirectional integration between your e-roster and Locum’s Nest. Gone are the days of double-keying and sub-standard one-size-fits-all software.

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Unleash Collaborative Banks

Instantly access a larger pool of workers ensuring near-100% shift fill rates by participating in one or more collaborative bank. Ensure that approvals and payments are efficiently handled with no additional resources.

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More than a helping hand

  • Our software is designed by healthcare professionals who have experienced the unique challenges of the NHS both directly from the front line but also from within rota, finance and HR management teams

  • The software and our service have been built in a modular way allowing you to make adjustments to the way in functions to meet your exact needs and your change agenda.

  • You will never be left on your own to implement our products and solutions. Always available to you is a team of project managers with a background in the NHS and expertise in implementation and change management.

  • You will benefit from a direct line to our technical support team which will not only solve your questions but will also provide on-demand training as and when you need it. With us, you won’t have to wait in a queue or reach a mindless algorithm; instead there’s always a human reachable whenever you’re working.

  • “We have freed up our days by no longer needing to constantly call, email and message doctors and agencies.”

    — ME, Medicine Rota Coordinator

  • “Locum’s Nest has made covering the shifts so much easier and the doctors are much more proactive about picking them up!”

    — JB, Deputy Service Manager in Surgery

  • “The Locum’s Nest app has greatly supported us as we move towards achieving our transparency and digitisation goals and has helped us better empower the medical workforce.”

    — Suzanne Rankin, CEO ASPH

  • “We’ve not only seen significant financial savings, but the workforce morale has skyrocketed, and one can only assume the patients are feeling this too.”

    — Alfredo Thompson, RUH Bath Executive Director of Human Resources

  • “It’s great to see that our previous doctors, who would have never previously heard of the shift, now hear about it and apply!”

    — NH, HR Director

Choose a better way to elevate your shift fill rate without breaking the bank.