Run your locum work like a business. Minus the accountant.
Keeps the records, does the sums. Filing and advice stay with you and your accountant.
Log every shift, send the invoice, and see your tax position at any point in the year. Whether you are PAYE, agency, or self-invoiced, across 17 UK healthcare professions.
THE PROBLEM
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 retyping 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. Plus.
NMC revalidation tracker for nurses and midwives, counting practice hours from logged shifts. Free on every tier.
NHS pension forms for GPs: SOLO and monthly submissions. Basic.
GET FOUND
A public profile, and booking requests that reach you.
Publish a profile to the directory, and take booking requests without giving an organisation an account.
Public directory and profile. Publish to the directory at your own slug, or keep it private. Basic.
Booking requests. Take requests through a public form, accept or decline from the dashboard. Basic.
Booking messaging. Exchange messages with an organisation on a booking request. Plus.
TAX AND EXPENSES
See your tax position at any point in the year.
A tax reserve that updates as you log income, and expenses logged against the right HMRC categories.
Multi-year tax planner. Income tax, National Insurance, and net pay for 2025/26 and 2026/27. Basic.
Expenses. Log expenses against HMRC categories with receipts attached. Basic.
Earnings forecast. Year-to-date income, a forward tax-year projection, and a recommended reserve. Plus.
Peer rate benchmark, anonymised. Plus.
Ask Sandy. Ask plain-English questions about your own numbers. Plus.
EXPORT AND SYNC
Hand it to your accountant, or sync it to Xero.
Your records leave the way you need them to.
CSV and PDF export. Export shifts to CSV, and invoices and your revalidation portfolio as PDFs. Basic.
Xero sync. Push invoices as authorised and expenses as bills. Pro.
REST API. Bearer-token access with your own keys, and interactive docs. Pro.
Advanced reporting. A Pro-only analytics view. Pro.
HOW IT WORKS
Four steps, no fuss.
01 Log the shift. Pick the organisation, the date, the rate, and how this one is paid.
02 Send the invoice. For self-invoiced shifts, Sessional builds the PDF and emails it with a signed link.
03 Track the money. Mark each shift paid, short, or unpaid. Unpaid invoices chase themselves at day 14, 21, and 28.
04 See your position. Year-to-date income, tax reserve, and what is still owed, current whenever you open the dashboard.
PROFESSIONS
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. A nurse gets hourly shifts, the cross-employer pay-check, and the NMC revalidation tracker. A pharmacist gets GPhC registration on every invoice.
GP, GMC
Day-rate sessions, NHS pension forms (SOLO and monthly submissions).
Nurse, NMC
Hourly shifts, cross-employer pay-check, NMC revalidation tracker.
Pharmacist, GPhC
Hourly shifts, GPhC number on every invoice, mileage on expenses.
Physiotherapist, HCPC
Hourly shifts, cross-employer pay-check, document expiry tracking.
PRICING
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.
Log shifts across self-invoiced, agency, and PAYE work. Up to 5 shifts a month across all billing modes, and up to 5 self-invoiced invoices per month. NMC revalidation, pay-check, and document tracking included.
Launch price until 1 August 2026, then £14.99. Unlimited invoices, earnings forecast, compliance passport, booking messaging, and Ask Sandy.
Everything in Plus, plus Xero sync, the REST API, and advanced reporting.
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 to £30,000 in April 2027 and £20,000 in April 2028. 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
Free tools, no account needed.
Invoice template generator. Build a professional invoice PDF in your browser.
HMRC mileage calculator. Work out the deductible mileage on a journey.
NHS enhancement calculator. Check the Agenda for Change uplift a shift should pay.
Tax calculator. A 2026/27 take-home estimate across the UK and Scottish bands.
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