IPN Locum of
the Year Award
Sponsored by TTM Healthcare
TTM Healthcare is pleased to be able to support the Locum of the Year Award. TTM Healthcare is the largest independently-owned Healthcare recruitment business in Ireland with operations in Ennis, Cork and Dublin and international offices in London and Warsaw. A wholly Irish owned business founded in 2002, it has come along way.
As we approach our 10th anniversary we have chosen to give particular pride of place to our highly successful and ever growing Pharmacy divison.
TTM Pharmacy has a vision, a path to transform your recruitment exeperience and to take you to a place where sourcing the best people will mean just that. Where our uniqueness is our ability to source internationally based, and the best of Irish trained pharmacists, and pharmacuetical staff for our clients. and further to be able to to provide end to end recruitment solutions.
We recognise that the landscape is changing, TTM success has been well grounded in its ability to change, adapt and above all remember that its clients its candidates and its people are at the very root, the foundation on which future success will be built. With these foundations well layed we recruit with your business future in mind.
To underline our commitment to ethical recruitment practice we are members of the National Recruitment Federation, the Institute of Personnel Management and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. TTM’s recruitment processes and procedures hold ISO 2001 quality accreditation and our systems are regularly independently audited.
TTM healthcare has grown by simply providing an outstanding service. And will continue to do so. With over 60 employees we are very proud of our achievements, but have much left to do. We recognise that to grow we must move forward. “The end of rainbow is always at the other side of the mountain at TTM.....!”
* This Award may be entered through individual application or nomination. We will accept nominations from anyone who was a locum during Jan 2011-Dec 2011 who has since gained full-time employment
Working as a Locum pharmacist is a flexible yet challenging task. Locums have the opportunity to work across a broad spectrum, from independents to chain, from town to town and sometimes on desired days. No two days in a working environment will be the same offering the chance to experience different practices and prescribing.
However it is not without its drawbacks. Being employed on such a varying schedule it may be difficult to establish working relationships. With a lack of regularity it is up to the locum to remain dedicated and hard-working to ensure the highest quality of patient care is maintained in the absence of a set agenda.
The Locum of the Year Award is designed to showcase those who, in facing the above, strive to excel in the services they are temporarily offering. Those who highlight the integral role of locums in maintaining frontline services in a sector facing the dual challenge of rising demands and tigether budgets.
Criteria:
- What new services or initiatives have you/they brought to the pharmacy profession?
- How have you/they measured the success of these?
- How have you/they linked with additional members of the pharmacy team or profession as a whole?
- What impact have you/they had on the pharmacy's customers and customer service as a whole?
Applicants should be able to demonstrate:
- Long-term, consistent dedication leading to the advancement of the profession
- Contribution in any area of practice such as long-term care, smoking cessation etc
- Working as part of a team within a particular pharmacy or within a number of pharmacies they have been employed in as a locum
- An apparent desire for the furtherment of the profession
