Fill your pharmacy vacancies with Locums/Permanent Staff vetted like you'd vet them yourself.
10,000+ pre-screened UK pharmacists, technicians, dispensers and GP-surgery staff. Rated by real pharmacies. Trusted by Tesco Pharmacies and Cohen Chemist.
Job Boards don't understand your pharmacy. Neither do the AI-filter agencies.
You're not short of applicants. You're short of the right ones. Here's why your rota still has a hole in it on Saturday.
False candidates flood your inbox
30 CVs land after every job post. 27 are wrong for the role. The 3 that fit never call back.
AI-filtered ≠ pharmacy-ready
Other agencies use chatbot questionnaires — then forward the same candidates you already rejected on Indeed.
Meanwhile, the rota bleeds
Every unfilled shift is lost Pharmacy First revenue, angry customers, and stressed staff picking up slack.
A closed portfolio of Compliant and Pre-screened 10k+ Healthcare Staff. Rated by You.
Pre-screened by our Compliance
Our compliance team has years of experience in the district. They understand because they've stayed behind the counter and know what goes behind the counter. Not a chatbot.
Performance-rated by real pharmacies
Every locum or permanent staff in the portfolio carries feedback and ratings from clients they've worked in.
Pre-booked cover months out
Especially in London, the Midlands, Lancashire, Devon & Cornwall and Scotland — where staffing is hardest.
No candidate you've already seen
We never send you a CV that's been rejected somewhere else. No public job board. No recycled applicants.
We interview candidates the way you would. See for yourself.
Every locum we send has already answered the questions your area manager would ask. That's why interviewing them is a formality — not a discovery process.
Screening a Pharmacist
A pharmacist candidate doesn't leave our compliance without answering these:
How many Pharmacy First consultations have you delivered per week?
Walk me through your last PGD supply — start to finish.
What's your NMS conversion rate roughly?
Which PMR systems have you used — EMIS, ProScript, Titan?
Screening an ACT
An ACT is the last line of defence before medicine reaches the counter:
Which PMR systems have you accuracy-checked on?
What's your error rate per 1,000 items dispensed?
How do you catch a same-name-different-strength mix-up?
How do you handle a controlled-drug discrepancy at end of day?
Screening a Pharmacy Technician
Technicians carry the operational weight:
Have you managed MDS trays for care homes?
Which packaging systems — Nomad, Venalink, MDS?
Do you handle NMS or MURs?
How do you triage a stock-out at 5pm on a Friday?
Screening a Dispenser
A dispenser gets the questions a dispenser employer would ask:
Talk me through your PMR system experience — what did you dispense today?
Have you covered solo, or always alongside a pharmacist?
How would you handle a controlled-drug discrepancy at close?
Walk me through a broken-bulk calculation.
Screening a Practice Nurse
GP surgery nurses need clinical and administrative breadth:
Which vaccination programmes are you signed off on — flu, travel, childhood?
Have you run diabetic reviews independently?
What CQC standards have you worked under recently?
How do you handle a needle-stick incident?
Screening an ANP
ANPs work at the top of their scope. We test judgement:
Which acute presentations do you feel most confident triaging?
Are you an independent prescriber?
How do you handle a patient outside your scope?
Talk me through your last on-call shift.
Screening a GP
GPs walking into a new surgery need to be productive from consultation one:
Comfortable with EMIS, SystmOne, or both?
What's your average consultation length?
Are you comfortable with QOF and enhanced services?
How do you handle a complex polypharmacy review?
Screening Reception / Front-Desk Staff
Reception is patient experience and data protection combined:
Have you used care navigation before? Walk me through it.
Which appointment systems — SystmOne, EMIS Web, Vision?
How would you handle a distressed patient at the desk?
Talk me through a data-protection scenario at the front desk.
Six years of listening to UK pharmacy owners and GP practice managers means our compliance team asks exactly what employers would ask themselves.
From first call to signed contract — usually in under 2 weeks.
Discovery call
We get every detail of the role.
Portfolio match
Filter 10,000+ vetted staff.
Pre-interview
We screen like you would.
You meet 3+
Online shortlist interviews.
Face-to-face
Final interview at your branch.
Contract signed
Vacancy filled. Rota safe.
Wherever you sit in UK pharmacy, there's already a place for you here.
Real people, registered today — not inflated marketing numbers.
Looking for shifts?
Register once and join the vetted team — with the security of work that actually suits your rota.
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Pre-vetted UK pharmacy and GP-surgery staff, matched to the details of your business — not a job board.
Explore more →What we guarantee — in writing.
— Signed, the founder of LocumSmart
Everything pharmacies ask us before signing.
How fast can you actually fill a vacancy? +
What if the locum doesn't show up? +
Do you cover my region? +
How much do you charge? +
Can I speak to an existing client first? +
Speak to the founder this week.
A 15-minute call. No commitment. He'll answer any question and, if you'd like, connect you with a current client for live feedback.