NHS Scotland Consultants

Desirable:

• Familiarity with NHS Scotland clinical systems, including TrakCare, SCI Gateway, Clinical Portal and PACS
• Working knowledge of SIGN guidance and Healthcare Improvement Scotland standards
• JAG accreditation for endoscopy roles, or equivalent specialty-specific accreditation
• Experience of high-volume list delivery, day-case pathways or diagnostic recovery programmes
• Experience of working within Centre for Sustainable Delivery and National Elective Coordination Unit pathway improvement approaches

How we work

Every clinician on our bank is credentialled before deployment against a documented compliance framework aligned to NHS Employers pre-employment check standards and NHS Scotland safer recruitment expectations, and works within the host Board's clinical governance framework, honorary or letter of access arrangements, and local policies and procedures, with named clinical leadership and incident escalation routes available at all times. Our clinical governance function is led by Caroline Bell, Head of Clinical Governance and Caldicott Guardian, with all services operating under the NHS Scotland Staff Governance Standard, the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 and the National Whistleblowing Standards, and access to the Independent National Whistleblowing Officer route protected for every worker.

What we offer

• Genuine flexibility to choose lists and sessions around your substantive commitments
• Rates set per assignment and confirmed in writing before you accept, with prompt and transparent payment
• A choice of payment method, subject to the IR35 status determination for each assignment
• A dedicated workforce team who manage compliance renewals on your behalf, so your file never lapses
• Well-organised lists with pre-worked patient lists, full administrative support and a named coordinator on site
• Continuity of work across multiple Health Boards as contracts mobilise
• We aim, where possible, to build regional teams to limit your travel and keep you home in the evenings

How to register

Please attach a CV including your contact number, GMC number and specialty registration date.

Why we are recruiting now

Frontline Insourcing bids for NHS Scotland insourcing contracts, and Health Boards rightly want assurance that a provider can staff a service locally from the point of award, rather than relying on staff travelling from elsewhere, building a Scottish clinical bank in advance is how we give that assurance and how services start on time. This means we are recruiting ahead of demand, and we will be straight with you about that at every stage, we will not tell you work is imminent when it is not, and we will not ask you to complete compliance checks until there is a realistic prospect of an assignment.

Pay and assignments

Rates are set per assignment and vary by Health Board, specialty, list type, hours and skills required, there is no single fixed rate across the bank. You will be given full details, including location, dates, clinical scope, rate and payment terms, before being asked to commit, and nothing is confirmed until you accept in writing. Joining the bank places you under no obligation to accept work, and declining an assignment has no bearing on future offers.

How you will be paid

The payment method available to you depends on the IR35 status determination for the particular assignment, and, where more than one route applies, on your own preference. Before you accept any assignment within the off-payroll working rules, you will be issued a Status Determination Statement setting out the conclusion and reasons, and depending on that determination, engagement may be through our own payroll, an approved umbrella company, or your own limited company. We will explain the options, the effect on your take-home pay, and your right to disagree with a determination through our status disagreement process. We do not operate or promote arrangements designed to disguise remuneration, and we will not engage anyone through a scheme of that kind.

Equal opportunities

Frontline Insourcing is committed to equality of opportunity and to a workforce reflecting the communities NHS Scotland serves, welcoming registrations regardless of any protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and Fairer Scotland Duty, and making reasonable adjustments at every stage of registration and deployment on request. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer (Level 1), guaranteeing an interview to any disabled applicant meeting the essential criteria, and will work with you on any adjustment needed to take up work.

Safer recruitment

Frontline Insourcing operates a safer recruitment framework aligned to NHS Employers pre-employment check standards and NHS Scotland safer recruitment expectations, with all engagements subject to satisfactory identity and right to work verification, professional registration verification, PVG Scheme membership, occupational health clearance, full employment history and satisfactory references. Offers of work are conditional until all checks are complete, and failure to disclose relevant information may result in withdrawal of an offer or removal from the bank.

How we handle your information

By registering, you ask us to hold your details on our clinical talent bank to contact you about suitable NHS Scotland assignments. We hold personal data on the lawful basis of consent, and special category data, including health and professional registration information, on the basis of provision of health care and management of health care systems. If you have not been placed on an assignment within twelve months, your record becomes inactive and we will stop contacting you, inactive records are retained and then securely destroyed per our data retention schedule, tell us at any time if you would like to remain active beyond twelve months. You may withdraw consent, or request access, correction or erasure of your data, at any time by contacting our Group Data Protection Officer, Muniba Masood, at muniba@frontlineinsourcing.co.uk, and you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office. We will not share your data with a Health Board or any other third party without telling you first, data is protected by access controls, role-based permissions and the technical and organisational measures required under our Cyber Essentials certification.

Frontline Insourcing Ltd (Company Number 14997587), Sopers House, Sopers Road, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, is part of the Aetheria Group. The Group holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification and Cyber Essentials certification across its operating companies.