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 past 4 weeks we've been be sending you our top tips on what factors you should consider when choosing, or changing, your locum dental agency.
To follow on from last week’s ‘factors to consider’ article on ‘Quality of Service’, our final week's Top Tip No.5 focuses on 'Quality of Staff'……….
'Q U A L I T Y O F S T A F F
Quality of staff – Probably the biggest factor of all when choosing a locum dental agency is the quality of the agency’s locum dental nurses. It top tumps all other factors and is ultimately what the agency is judged on. The quality of the locum staff the agency has on their books will help the agency build their reputation (factor 1) and contribute heavily towards providing the agency’s clients with value for money (factor 2). No matter how good the quality of their locum staff, they do still need to compliant (factor 3) and they need to be supplied to you by a conscientious agency who provide you with a first-class service (factor 4). But at the end of the day, a skilled and experienced locum dental nurse who is confident in their own abilities and who is happy to help wherever needed is ideally what a dental practice needs a dental agency to provide them with.
It’s difficult to gauge what the quality of an agencies dental nurses are like without having them work in your practice first (although we did give you a few tips on this in our ‘factor 1’ blog!), but locum dental nurses will generally perform better when they are happy with the agency they work with. A highly valued and appreciated team member is an enthusiastic and productive team member! So, if you book a locum dental nurse through an agency, how happy they are in their job roles should shine though into the quality of the work they do for you.
As well as our stringent recruitment process to help ensure we recruit suitably skilled and experienced dental nurses, S4S Team also get to know our team m,embers, highly value each and every one of them and create a team atmosphere for our nurses to help them through their journey in what can sometimes be a lonely job role. This helps to ensure that when our locum team members work in your dental practice, they are enthusiastic, hardworking, provide excellent patient care and are proud to represent our agency.