5 Top Tips for Dental Practices To Consider When Choosing a Locum Dental Agency.

When your dental practice needs to book a locum dental nurse, what factors do you consider when choosing which dental agency to contact?

With more and more dental agencies than ever before to choose from, it can be tough to decide who gets your first call.

Every Wednesday for the next 5 weeks we’ll be sending you our top 5 tips on what factors you should consider when choosing, or changing, your locum dental agency.

This week we’ll start with…….

REPUTATION.

When it comes to choosing your locum dental agency, the agencies reputation within the local dental industry should definitely be a huge factor that needs some serious consideration. Maybe even more so than what price they actually charge?

If your practice hasn’t used a particular agency before, or you are looking into using a locum dental agency for the first time, then it is wise to do a bit of digging beforehand. Word of mouth referrals and seeking out recommendations are a great way of deciding which agency will get your call. Ask yourself the following;

- Have any of the other practice managers/principal dentists who you know used this agency before?

- What was their experience like?

- Do you or any of your staff know any locum nurses that work for this agency, or have worked for them in the past?

- Do they employ good nurses?

- Do their locum nurses have good things to say about their experience of working with the agency?

If your struggling for people to ask, other useful tools to use are taking a look at the agency’s reviews on Google, client testimonials on their website and good old social media reviews!

At S4S Team, we have built up a solid reputation of working to our core values of honesty and integrity and always working in an ethical manner. This is evidenced in how quickly our company has grown over the last 6 years and is also reflected in the outstanding feedback and reviews our agency receives.

Keep your eyes peeled for next week's Top Tip where we'll be looking at 'Value for Money'!