Locum directory: how workplaces find you

The locum directory is a public search page where an Australian workplace looking for cover can find you directly, without going through an agency. A workplace manager in Parramatta or a DON at a regional hospital types in a postcode and a specialty, and the locums who match come back as a list of profile cards.

Each card shows your name, your primary specialty, the additional specialties you have chosen to show, a short biography excerpt, and the general area where you work. From there a workplace can open your full public profile or send you a booking request. The directory is public, so workplaces can browse it without an agency account.

A workplace can enter a postcode and choose a radius in kilometres. When the postcode is recognised, Sessional compares it with profile coordinates, filters known distances against the radius and sorts nearest first. Profiles without a calculated distance remain in the results after those with a distance. This is a geographic distance estimate, not driving time.

Distance calculations use the coordinates saved on your profile. The card location label comes from cities on saved workplaces with linked shifts, or says “Location on request” when none are available. The directory card does not display your street address or full postcode. Check your public profile separately to review the fields visible there.

Workplaces can narrow the directory in two more ways, and the three filters combine:

• Specialty filter: a dropdown built from the specialties that listed locums actually carry, so a clinic can filter to, say, women’s health, skin cancer medicine, or aged care. Keep your specialties accurate and check which additional specialties you have chosen to show.
• Text search: a free-text box that matches your name, your specialties, and keywords from your biography. Typing “rural GP” or “conscious sedation” will surface locums whose biography mentions it, even without using the dropdown.

Because these run together, a hospital can search “within 25 km of a postcode, specialty emergency” and get a tightly scoped shortlist. Only list work you can offer, and review the search results after changing your profile.

The sort order depends on whether a postcode is in play:

• With a recognised postcode: calculated distances sort nearest first, with profiles lacking a distance afterwards.
• Without a recognised postcode: results are sorted by most recently updated profile first.

Keep your profile current so workplaces can assess it. The default ordering uses the profile update date. Results are paginated at 24 profiles per page, with the total match count shown above the list.

Sessional records search terms, selected filters and the result count in an internal audit log. Avoid entering patient details or other sensitive information in search fields. Your profile visibility settings control whether your registration number and additional specialties appear on the card. Preview your public profile after changing those settings.