A BELFAST software firm is creating 16 jobs through its innovative website, which helps provide an online solution to recruitment challenges facing pharmacies
Locum Match helps pharmacists cover pair hundreds of pharmacists around the UK with over 8,000 pharmacies and already the company has secured business with the UK’s four largest pharmacy chains; Boots, Well, Rowlands and Lloyds.
As part of a three year growth strategy the company is creating 16 new jobs and moving to a ‘fully online’ service through its mobile app and website.
Jonny Clarke, who runs the business with co-founder Michael Budden, explained the idea for the software came from his own experience as a locum pharmacist trying to source work after university.
"I developed a website to advertise myself as a locum, which has now grown into a business which offers pharmacists the opportunity to find work with some of the biggest pharmacy brands in the UK and Ireland.
“This week, we will launch an app version of our website. It is a simple in your pocket tool which we hope will appeal to busy pharmacists across the country."
“Our aim over the next three years is to have the largest pool of locums in the UK registered on our website," he added.
Invest NI has offered the company over £200,000 of support towards the creation of 16 jobs, R&D and marketing, with 11 of the positions already in place.
Invest NI eastern regional manager Moira Loughran said Locum Match's impressive software is making it a key player in the UK’s medical recruitment market.
“Locum Match sees innovation as crucial to the growth of its business. With Invest NI R&D support it is developing its business into a ‘fully online’ resource with improvements to its website and a mobile app."
“Our support is also helping the company exploit emerging opportunities in GB and ROI with marketing assistance to implement a customer acquisition strategy and develop the existing website," she added.
Locum Match recently announced it has received half a million pounds of seed funding which includes £250,000 of funding from techstart NI.
