Locums are finding it much more difficult to find work compared to a year ago, with more than three quarters fearing for their future in pharmacy, the C+D Salary Survey 2012 has revealed.  

Nearly three out of four locums said they found it harder to find work this year compared to last year, while less than half voiced the same concerns in 2011.

And nearly 80 per cent of 380 locums who responded said they were either a little more or a lot more worried than last year about finding work over the next 12 months, compared with 62 per cent in 2011.

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	The 2012 survey found that more than half were disillusioned with pharmacy and would like to move out of the profession and 80 per cent said they would not recommend pharmacy as a career, compared with 65 per cent in 2011.

There was concern about job security across community pharmacy, as 42 per cent of almost 900 pharmacist branch  managers and non-manager pharmacists felt their jobs were a little or a lot less secure than last year, while 48 per cent rated their jobs as secure as last year.

But job security was less of a worry for pharmacy employees at independent pharmacies compared with those at the largest multiples.

Just over 37 per cent of nearly 250 employees at companies with one to five pharmacies rated their jobs as a little or a lot less secure than last year, compared with 54 per cent of more than 350 employees of Boots and Lloydspharmacy.

This compared with only 25 per cent of 44 branch managers and non-manager pharmacists at the Co-operative Pharmacy who rated their jobs as less secure than last year.

Fifty-three per cent of more than 150 employee pharmacists at Boots and 49 per cent of 128 employee pharmacists at Lloydspharmacy rated their jobs as less secure than last year.

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