Set up your locum profile

Your profile is organised into five tabs so you can find each setting quickly:

• Personal: name, photo, biography, phone, public profile link, and a link to your CV
• Professional: primary and additional specialties, your AHPRA number, business structure, and nominated super fund
• Visibility: whether workplaces can discover you, plus a field-by-field choice of what appears publicly
• Billing: your ABN, invoice address, bank details, and default payment and cancellation terms
• Account: change your email or password, export your data, and manage account deletion

GPs and specialists can use the separate Medicare provider numbers screen to record provider numbers.

On the Professional tab, record your AHPRA number and your primary specialty. Check the details against your own registration records before saving. Add any additional specialties or extended roles too: these surface as an "Also covers" line under your primary specialty when you choose to show them.

The same tab is where you set your business structure (sole trader or company) and nominate the super fund you want contributions paid into, including its fund name and USI. Use Save professional details after making changes.

The Medicare provider numbers screen lets GPs and specialists record a provider number and link it to a workplace. Use Add provider number to save an entry. You can also mark an existing number active or inactive, or delete it.

Recording a number does not confirm where you can use it. Check your provider-number arrangements with Services Australia and the workplace. See direct billing and provider numbers for the separate workflow for recording billings.

Use your biography and additional specialties to describe the work you offer accurately. Ask the workplace which credentials it needs before agreeing to a shift, and check registration or endorsement questions with Ahpra or your National Board.

State credentials have a separate screen. See state credentials for how to record them. A Working With Children Check may be called a Blue Card in Queensland or an Ochre Card in the Northern Territory. Check requirements with the relevant state authority.

Every profile has a shareable URL in the form sessional.com.au/locums/your-slug. The slug is generated from your name, but you can rename it on the Personal tab to something a workplace will remember, like dr-priya-newcastle-gp. Share the link by email, on your CV, or via Share profile. Sessional retains up to ten previous slugs for redirects while your profile is Published or Unlisted. Update shared links after a rename rather than relying on every old link.

From the Visibility tab, set how discoverable you are:

• Published: you appear in the locum directory. Workplaces can find you by search and send booking requests. This is the setting for actively seeking work.
• Unlisted: you are not in the directory, but anyone with your direct link can view your profile and request you. Good when you have regular work and only want to share with specific workplaces.
• Private: your profile is hidden from everyone else, and anyone who opens your public link sees a "This profile is private" notice. Signed in, you still see a full preview of your own profile at that link (see below). Use this during a break or before you are ready to launch.

New profiles start Private. Switch to Published or Unlisted when you want to make your profile available to workplaces. You can also restrict booking requests to recognised health-sector email domains plus your own approved domains, and block specific workplaces or domains outright. See booking requests for how the filter and the block list work together.

Your public profile uses your name, primary specialty, location area, biography and photo where supplied. The optional fields below default to hidden; switch on each one you want to share:

• Registration number: choose whether to display the number you recorded
• Organisations worked with: choose whether to show workplace names
• Phone number: hide if you would rather be contacted through Sessional only
• Additional specialties: the "Also covers" line
• CV link: a "View CV" link pointing to the web address you saved on the Personal tab

These switches apply while your profile is Published or Unlisted. When it is Private, the whole profile is hidden from others regardless of the individual toggles, though you can still preview it yourself.

The Billing tab holds your invoice identity and payment details. A saved ABN is included in generated invoice PDFs and stored encrypted. Company and existing trust profiles also have a Registered trading name field. When it is filled in, the PDF prints it above your personal name. Check these details with your registered tax agent if unsure.

Add your invoice address and bank details (BSB and account number) so a workplace's accounts team can use the payment details on your invoice. You can also set default payment and cancellation terms used by the new-shift form. Check the terms before saving each shift.