How to become a locum healthcare professional in the UK.

17career guides

Registration, documents, rate-setting, routes to work, and the first-year pitfalls for every profession Sessional supports.

Guides: 17
Regulators: 6
Last reviewed: 2026

Index | Profession by profession

Start with your register.

Each guide is ordered from registration through to finding work, with the documents and common pitfalls kept alongside it.

Moving from an employed role into locum work changes what you are responsible for: your own registration renewal, your own indemnity cover, your own invoicing and tax reserve. None of that is complicated on its own. It is easy to miss a step when nobody hands you a checklist. Each guide below walks through what your regulator (GMC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, GDC, or GOC) requires before you can take your first booking, which documents an organisation will ask to see, and the mistakes locums in your profession make most often in year one: underpricing a session, missing a revalidation deadline, or invoicing without the right paperwork behind it.

Last reviewed April 2026. Rates and regulator details change. If something looks off, let us know.

Alongside the guides

Check the rate, role, and working numbers.

From the first booking

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