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Ready to revolutionize your medical career and be at the forefront of innovation in at-home healthcare delivery? Locum tenens telehealth jobs are the perfect match for healthcare professionals like physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs) who seek career growth and lifestyle freedom.
Telemedicine jobs offer you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of patients across the country. By taking a locum tenens telemedicine job, you’ll provide care and guidance to hard-to-reach rural areas and communities where access to quality care is lacking.
These jobs allow medical professionals to enjoy the convenience of working from anywhere in the world—on your terms and at your own pace. Enjoy the convenience of remote work and control your schedule each day.
Learn more about our open locum tenens telehealth jobs below!
Now Staffing Telemedicine Assessment-Based Medical Services
Provide quality patient care from anywhere!
About Our Open Telehealth Jobs
Locum tenens providers in these roles will conduct preventative telemedicine consultations for patients who are unable or unwilling to visit a clinic. Using an innovative approach that combines at-
This seamless telemedicine system enables you to deliver timely, convenient care to patients from the comfort of their homes.
The Process
- At-Home Health Testing: Patients use a provided kit to perform tests measuring glucose levels, cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate, and fat mass. The kit includes accurate, FDA-cleared devices for these measurements in real time. No waiting on lab results.
- Instant Result Upload: The test provides real-time feedback, and results are instantly and securely uploaded to a platform for your review.
- Provider Notification: Within 15-30 minutes of result upload, you will be notified that a patient is ready for consultation.
- Virtual Consultation: You will conduct a telemedicine session, reviewing the latest screening results alongside previous test data and patient medical history, when available. Your session will utilize AI to support the patient workup and summarize the patient’s complete medical history, when available, giving you a comprehensive, longitudinal view of their health information to inform diagnoses and recommendations.
- Diagnosis and Recommendations: Based on the comprehensive data, you will offer personalized advice, make informed diagnoses, suggest further actions or treatments, and discuss necessary lifestyle changes. The platform’s AI-assistant will automatically generate SOAP notes and discharge documents for you to review, edit, and approve at the end of the virtual consult.
This streamlined process ensures efficient, thorough virtual care, combining the convenience of at-home testing with expert medical analysis and personalized patient care.
Type of Patients
Current Openings as of March, 31st.
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Why Take a Locum Tenens Telehealth Job?
Work from Anywhere
Practice medicine from your kitchen counter, or anywhere with internet access.
Connect with New Patients
Expand your reach and serve diverse communities through virtual consultations.
Gain Valuable Experience
Leverage cutting-edge telehealth technologies and enhance your clinical skills.
What is Locum Tenens?
Summary
In the medical world, Locum Tenens simply refers to healthcare providers who take on temporary short or long-term jobs to fill gaps created by staffing shortages at hospitals, private practices, and companies throughout the United States. These gaps can be as short as one day or last the whole year, and are caused by planned vacations, maternity, and sabbatical leaves, and retirement. But they also happen due to unplanned absences like sudden illness or family emergencies.
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About Locum Tenens
What Does Locum Tenens Mean?
Locum tenens refers to providers and physicians work at healthcare facilities to fill gaps in care or occupy vacant positions on a temporary basis, though the positions can be short-term or long term.
A locum tenens staffing and recruiting agency such as Barton Associates assigns these providers to short- and long-term positions at hospitals, medical practices and organizations across the United States.
Where Does the Term Locum Tenens Come From?
“Locum Tenens” is Latin for “holding one’s place. Although the term’s origins dating back to 1640, its modern use stems from the 1970s when rural areas required additional physician staffing for their medically underserved populations. The industry has grown rapidly over the last 50 years, with more than 85% of healthcare facilities relying on locum tenens providers in all 50 states. The term has also expanded to include a wider variety of healthcare providers, not just doctors and physicians.
What is the Difference Between Locum Tenens and Per Diem?
Per diem work is “as needed” and tends to lack a specific start or end date. A per diem worker may be needed one day and not the next. Locum tenens work is contracted to have a set start and end date, and often comes with more benefits than per diem work.
Who Works Locum Tenens Jobs?
Locum tenens is an attractive option for healthcare providers looking to gain clinical experience, earn better pay, or have flexibility and less burnout in their careers. Others love locum tenens for the opportunity to travel and visit new places.
Healthcare workers of all fields and specialties now regularly work locum tenens. Barton Associates works with a wide variety of healthcare providers of all specialties, including Physicians, Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Dentists, and Physician Assistants (PAs).
Why Do Medical Providers Choose Locum Tenens?
Why you should consider locum tenens job in 2025? We surveyed 280 locum tenens providers on why they initially chose locum work. Here are their top reasons:
Flexibility (37%)
Nurse practitioners and other providers overwhelmingly cite flexibility as the biggest draw to locum work. Whether it’s to avoid burnout or to create more time to focus on the things that matter to you in life, locum work allows you to choose assignments and contracts that match your needs.
Higher Earning Potential (17%)
Locum providers of all types make more on average than perm counterparts. Locum nurse practitioners, for example, make up to 80% more than their perm counterparts depending on the specialty and state.
Ability to Travel (15%)
Many nurse practitioners choose locum work for the chance to travel — while saving money. Because the locum tenens agency covers the travel expenses, it’s a terrific, cost-efficient opportunity to see the world.
Frequently Asked Questions [FAQs] About Locum Tenens
Q: Do I have a choice where I’m placed?
A: As a 1099 contractor, you, the locum, decide if you take an assignment or not. You can choose to take back-to-back assignments, or take one a quarter. Since you are an independent contractor, the decision is yours.
Q: Who makes travel arrangements/how is travel compensated?
A: With most Barton Associates locum tenens assignments travel including flights, hotels, car rentals, and other modes of transportation (ferries) are covered by the client and organized by Barton Associate’s in-house travel team.
Q: How do I get licensed for specific states?
A: If a medical provider working with Barton is interested in obtaining additional licenses, Barton Associate’s licensing team will help obtain new licenses as long as it is beneficial for both parties.
Q: How do I complete credentialing?
A: Barton Associate’s in-house credentialing team works with clients and the locums to ensure a smooth credentialing process
Q: How do locum tenens get paid?
A: Locum providers are classified as independent contractors and are typically paid on a net-15 basis. Your recruiter can help answer any pay questions or concerns you encounter.
Q: How Long is a Locum Tenens Assignment?
A: Locum tenens assignments can last anywhere from a couple of days to a year or more. Two months is a common range for many providers, but you can likely find a position that matches any need. Barton also regularly has assignments that offer locums the ability to provide coverage on an ongoing basis, with no fixed end date.