For locum healthcare professionals
Run your locum work like a business. Minus the accountant.
Log every shift, send the invoice, and see your year-to-date earnings and a recommended tax reserve as you go. Whether you are PAYE, agency, or self-invoiced, across 17 UK healthcare professions.
17 professions, 6 regulators0% commissionNo card to start
You are owed
£2,340.00
2 invoices overdue. View them.Riverside Medical Centre
INV-0231 · due 12 May · overdue 29 days
Elmwood Surgery
INV-0234 · due 28 May · chaser at day 14
NHS bank shift, 6 Jun
Pay-check: short paid by £42.00
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17 professions, 6 regulators.
0%
Commission on your work.
£0
We never hold your money.
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No card to start.
You did not train for years to spend your evenings chasing invoices.
Locum income arrives from several directions in a single month: an agency, an NHS bank, a PAYE shift, a self-invoiced session. The admin lands on you. Sessional is the one place it all sits.
Replace the spreadsheet and the shoebox.
Every shift, invoice, expense, and document in one record, not three apps and a drawer of receipts.
No middleman. You keep 100%.
Sessional charges a flat monthly fee, never a cut of your rate. We never take custody of your income.
Your data stays yours.
Export your shifts to CSV and your invoices as PDFs whenever you want. Nothing is locked in.
Log and send
Log a shift. Send the invoice. Handle it your way.
Record each shift with the billing mode that fits it, then turn delivered shifts into invoices without re-typing anything.
- Three billing modes per shift: self-invoiced, agency-managed, and PAYE at source.Basic
- Role context on any shift: a nurse doing HCA work, a paramedic doing ECA work, and more.Basic
- Invoices sent by email as a signed PDF, with a 30-day link the organisation opens with no account.Basic
- Automatic chasers at day 14, 21, and 28 past due, each one attaching the original PDF.Basic
- Double-booking is caught before it happens.Basic
Check and reserve
Know what you are owed, and what to set aside.
Mark each delivered shift as paid correctly, short paid, or not paid yet, across every employer. See your year-to-date income and a recommended tax reserve as you go.
- Cross-employer pay-check: one view of short-paid and unpaid shifts across agency, bank, and PAYE.Basic
- Year-to-date earnings with a forward tax-year projection and a recommended reserve.Plus
- Peer rate benchmark, anonymised, so you can see where your rate sits.Plus
- Multi-year tax planner: income tax, National Insurance, and net pay for 2025/26 and 2026/27.Basic
- Expenses logged against HMRC categories, with receipts attached.Basic
Stay current
Your registration, indemnity, and DBS, tracked with their expiry dates.
Store every compliance document with the date it runs out, so nothing lapses unnoticed. When an organisation asks for your paperwork, share it once.
- Document store with expiry tracking and profession-specific categories.Basic
- Compliance passport: bundle chosen documents into a signed link an organisation opens with no account. Set an expiry, see the view count, revoke any time.Plus
- NMC revalidation tracker for nurses and midwives, counting practice hours from your logged shifts. Free on every tier.Basic
- NHS pension forms for GPs: SOLO and monthly submissions.Basic
Sessional does not verify your documents. You decide what to share, and the organisation checks them, the same as today. We say this on both sides of the link.
How it works
Log the shift.
Pick the organisation, the date, the rate, and how this one is paid.
Send the invoice.
For self-invoiced shifts, Sessional builds the PDF and emails it with a signed link.
Track the money.
Mark each shift paid, short, or unpaid. Unpaid invoices chase themselves at day 14, 21, and 28.
See your position.
Year-to-date income, tax reserve, and what is still owed, current whenever you open the dashboard.
Built for 17 professions, not a generic tool with a healthcare skin.
Each profession sees the workflow it actually has. A GP gets day-rate sessions and NHS pension forms (SOLO and monthly submissions). A nurse gets hourly shifts, the cross-employer pay-check, and the NMC revalidation tracker. A pharmacist gets GPhC registration on every invoice.
GMC
GP
Day-rate sessions, NHS pension forms (SOLO and monthly submissions).
NMC
Nurse
Hourly shifts, cross-employer pay-check, NMC revalidation tracker.
GPhC
Pharmacist
Hourly shifts, GPhC number on every invoice, mileage on expenses.
HCPC
Physiotherapist
Hourly shifts, cross-employer pay-check, document expiry tracking.
Simple pricing. No commission.
Start free and stay free on Basic. Move to Plus when the admin grows. The price is a flat monthly fee, never a percentage of your work.
Free
For getting started, or anyone who rarely invoices directly.
- Log shifts across self-invoiced, agency, and PAYE work.
- Send up to 5 invoices a month.
- Cross-employer pay-check and document tracking.
- NMC revalidation tracker included.
£4.99 a month
Launch price until 1 August 2026, then £14.99 a month.
- Everything in Basic, plus unlimited invoices.
- Earnings forecast and recommended tax reserve.
- Compliance passport and booking messaging.
- Ask Sandy: answers about your own numbers.
£24.99 a month
For locums who run their finances through Xero, or need API access.
- Everything in Plus.
- Xero sync for invoices and expenses.
- REST API with your own keys.
- Advanced reporting.
Plus is £4.99 a month during the launch period, which ends on 1 August 2026. After that it is £14.99 a month. The price you see is the price, with the change date stated up front. No card to start. 0% commission. We never hold your money.
Making Tax Digital
Records ready for Making Tax Digital.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is mandatory from April 2026 for self-employed income over £50,000, with the threshold dropping in later years. The foundation it requires is a digital record of your income and expenses. Sessional keeps that record as you log each shift and expense. For the quarterly submission itself, export to your accountant or a recognised tool. Sessional does not file on your behalf.
Free tools, no account needed.
Invoice template generator
Build a professional invoice PDF in your browser.
Open tool: Invoice template generatorHMRC mileage calculator
Work out the deductible mileage on a journey.
Open tool: HMRC mileage calculatorNHS enhancement calculator
Check the Agenda for Change uplift a shift should pay.
Open tool: NHS enhancement calculatorTax calculator
A 2026/27 take-home estimate across the UK and Scottish bands.
Open tool: Tax calculatorQuestions, answered plainly.
What does it cost?
Basic is free and stays free, with up to 5 invoices a month. Plus is £4.99 a month until 1 August 2026, then £14.99, and lifts the invoice cap and adds the earnings forecast, compliance passport, booking messaging, and Ask Sandy. Pro is £24.99 a month and adds Xero sync, the REST API, and reporting. No card is needed to start.
Do you take a cut of my rate?
No. Sessional charges a flat monthly fee and takes 0% of your work. We never hold your money or take custody of your income.
I am a nurse or midwife. Is the NMC revalidation tracker free?
Yes. The NMC revalidation tracker is on every tier, including free Basic, because revalidation is a regulatory obligation, not a paid feature. It counts your practice hours from logged shifts against the 450-hour target over your three-year cycle.
I work agency, bank, and PAYE in the same month. Does that work?
Yes. Each shift carries its own billing mode, and the pay-check view shows short-paid and unpaid shifts across every employer in one place. If you never invoice directly, the 5-invoice cap on Basic does not affect you.
Does Sessional file my tax or verify my documents?
No to both. Sessional keeps your records digital, which is the foundation Making Tax Digital requires, but it does not file on your behalf. It does not verify your documents either: you decide what to share, and the organisation checks them.
Which professions and regulators do you cover?
17 professions across GMC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, GDC, and GOC. Each profession sees the workflow, documents, and registration logic that fit it.
More questions are answered in the help centre.
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