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Locum jobs • • Review your needs & be clear with surgeries Honesty & commitment Be organised Contract or not
Now • Folder & Stationery CV Covering letter Invoices GMC P 60 Certificates • Performers list – CCT, Indemnity, • Copy for folder • Speak to current Practice Manager • Sessional GP list at PCT • Register with HMRC as self employed • Even if salaried and want to do OOH/extra locums
Stationery • • • Clear Contact details Word document Use for all correspondence Invoice Curriculum Vitae & Covering Letter
How to find work • Be creative • Mail shot of CV/covering letter • Friends & word of mouth • Sessional List • Cold calling • Agencies
Tax Register as Self employed Keep approx 1/3 of earnings from each invoice Tax & NIC = Self assessment online Submitted LATEST by 31 st January 2013 for work done 6 th April 2011 to 5 th. April 2012 • Get 2 tax periods a year – Jan & July • National insurance contributions • • – Class 1 – done by employer when employed & on PAYE – Class 2 – self employed - flat rate twice a year (jan & july) – Class 4 - self employed - pay when do self assessment as proportion of self employed earnings
Pensions • • Entitled to NHS pension Form A – total for session/work done Form B – total for month Pension Website best source of information – GP FAQs – http: //www. nhsbsa. nhs. uk/2061. aspx – GP Locum page – http: //www. nhsbsa. nhs. uk/Pensions/2665. aspx – GP forms – http: //www. nhsbsa. nhs. uk/Pensions/2668. aspx
Indemnity • MDU – Locum cover worked out based on number of sessions • Can get cover in blocks • E. g. 1 session per week = 52 sessions • Use these all in one go or spread out through year • Can add in ‘fixed’ sessions i. e 4 session regular until date X
Pay • • Negotiable Be fair to yourself and to the practice £ 80 per hour £ 225 per session £ 450 per full day £ 25 per visit – when to type it up? Above includes doing own referrals/paper work Leave a ‘tidy desk’
Extra tips • Get an accountant – helps with tax return and claiming back tax free benefits • Proportion of car/computer/stationery etc • If doing maternity locum check policy re annual leave / study leave • If employed for more than 6 months by a practice, you are classed as ‘salaried’ for purposes of pension and other rights • PDP / Appraisal – keep log of this as you go
Life as a locum. . . plus side • • Understanding - personally & professionally Varied exposure to patients Different practices Systems / process / problems Income better than VTS Flexible working Clock on , clock off
Life as a locum. . . not-so-plus side • • Unknown Isolating Patients - demands / expectation / follow up Uncertainty – income / tax / new job / you How am I driving Clock on , clock off Split sites Mis-treated? ? – on call
Resources • National association of sessional GP • www. nasgp. org. uk • Bradford VTS exit handbook – Excellent resource even though from 2008/9 • http: //www. bradfordvts. co. uk/wpcontent/onlineresources/0003 postgptraining/exit%20 h andbook. pdf
Resources • Coventry PCT performers list – Sue Ward Primary Care Support Manager Primary Care NHS Coventry Christchurch House Tel: 024 7624 6055 Fax: 024 7624 6039 Sue. Ward@coventrypct. nhs. uk
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