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

Medicare provider numbers have their own dedicated screen, reached from your profile: more on that below.

On the Professional tab, record your AHPRA number and your primary specialty. AHPRA registration is a public record, so showing it on your profile lets a workplace verify you on the Ahpra register before they book. Add any additional specialties or extended rolestoo: 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, company, or trust) and nominate the super fund you want contributions paid into, including its fund name and USI. Nurses can also record their next AHPRA renewal date here, which drives the five-year recency window on the registration tracker.

A Medicare provider number is tied to a practitioner at a specific practice location, so an active GP or specialist commonly holds several at once, one for each workplace they cover. Sessional gives GPs and specialists a dedicated Medicare provider numbers screen where you record each number against the workplace it belongs to. When you invoice, the correct provider number is attributed to the right workplace automatically.

Allied health practitioners hold a single provider number that ports across sites under referral rules, so there is no per-location screen for them: store your one number on your main profile instead. See direct billing and provider numbers for how this flows through to bulk-billing and patient-claim work.

Many AHPRA professions carry endorsements that change what work you can take: conscious sedation for dentists, clinical endorsement for psychologists, immunisation and scheduled-medicine scope for pharmacists, and NDIS or acupuncture work for physiotherapists. Sessional reflects the endorsements relevant to your profession so your profile reads accurately to a workplace.

State-based credentials such as a Working With Children Check (or Blue Card in Queensland, Ochre Card in the Northern Territory) and any Schedule 8 or radiation authorities are managed separately, because their rules differ by state. See state credentials for how to record and track these.

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 the Share button. Old links keep working after a rename, so anything you have already handed out stays live.

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 bookings to start coming in. 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 name, primary specialty, location area, biography, and photo are always shown while your profile is Published or Unlisted: these are the core fields a workplace needs to recognise you. Everything else defaults to hidden, and you switch each item on individually:

• AHPRA number: some locums prefer workplaces verify this on the Ahpra register directly
• Organisations worked with: hide it to avoid competitive sensitivity
• Phone number: hide if you would rather be contacted through Sessional only
• Exact postcode: your general area always shows, but the full postcode is optional
• Additional specialties: the "Also covers" line
• CV link: a "View CV" link pointing at any URL you choose (LinkedIn, SEEK, a personal site, or a Drive share)

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 the details that print on every tax invoice. Your ABN appears on each invoice, as the ATO requires for a valid tax invoice, and it is stored encrypted. If you trade through a company or trust, add your registered trading name as recorded with ASIC, and it shows instead of your personal name. Sessional does not collect your Tax File Number.

Add your invoice address and bank details (BSB and account number) so a workplace's accounts team has everything they need to pay you. You can also set default payment terms and a default cancellation policy that pre-populate each new shift you create.