12 month Fixed Term/Secondment opportunity.
As per the Fixed Term Contacts Policy - Where individuals with continuous service within the NHS apply for fixed-term contract roles, PSD Scotland reserves the right to refuse any such appointment.
On 1 April 2026, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) became one national organisation, focused on continuity today and a stronger, more connected service for tomorrow.
As part of this transformation, NSS and NES have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland). This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland.
About the Organisation:
PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future.
We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services.
The Post:
The Practitioner and Contractor Finance Services unit of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is looking for a Payments /Payment Verification Lead to join its Contractor Finance Team.
The Candidate:
The post holder will play a key role in management of payment and payment verification services within contractor finance. The role will be responsible for all analysis and subsequent payments within the Dental and Ophthalmic payment stream, and the role will be required to check, validate, and authorise accurate payments to all eligible contractors on behalf of the NHS Health Boards.
The post holder will lead the Dental and Ophthalmic payment services, managing the payment/payment verification team assisting in the delivery of the Dental and Ophthalmic monthly payment and payment verification services to ensure all audit control requirements are being met and build effective working relationships and working collaboratively with multi-professional teams.
The post holder will manage the payment team workload and support them with regards complex financial queries, will verify the validity of claims against the scheme criteria alongside providing detailed analysis and reporting to the Scottish Government and National Finance Manager.
The post holder will have a large degree of freedom to manage their own workload within the cycle of the monthly payment run and will report directly to the National Finance Manager and identify the key issues to be addressed. It is crucial that they will be able to deal with sensitive issues in a confidential manner and a team player with the ability to work independently.
The post holder will be self-motivated, numerate, and willing to take the initiative to design new solutions to complex problems and working processes and bringing new ideas on how we can perform better, do things differently and learn from best practice.
They will be educated to degree level with a CCAB qualification, have significant experience of Microsoft Office applications with advanced excel skills. They will also be skilled in financial modelling and analysis and Power applications. Please see the person specification for more details on the required skills.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a Disclosure Scotland check. Any candidate who have lived/worked overseas for more than 12 months in the preceding 5 years will also be required to provide a criminal record check from the appropriate overseas agency.
Location and Working Pattern:
Gyle Square, Edinburgh or Delta House, Glasgow.
Currently hybrid working
Monday to Friday/Sunday, 36 hours per week
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK and have entitlement to work in the UK for the post in which you will be employed.
Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits. HR Benefits Brochure.
Inclusion:
Public Services Delivery Scotland is a national organisation and, as an anchor institution, it is our ambition to be a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone feels welcome. We recognise that flexible working creates an inclusive workplace where employees can thrive and feel confident about their ability to balance their personal and professional responsibilities. This is supported through Once for Scotland flexible working policies. PSD Scotland has made a long-term commitment to staff health and well-being and offers many learning and development opportunities to support and improve our approaches to diversity, inclusion and mental health in the workplace. There are a number of equality staff networks in place which all staff are welcome to join. We are also an equal opportunities employer and as such aim to guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As an accredited Disability Confident Leader, it is the aim of PSD Scotland to offer a fully accessible and inclusive recruitment service that supports applicants on their candidate journey. If you are interested in any reasonable adjustments, please contact the Recruitment Team on [email protected]
Further information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Natalie Alexander at [email protected]
Closing date for completed applications is 19th June 2026.
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
We are an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies however, where exceptionally high application volumes make this impracticable, a fair and proportionate shortlisting approach will be applied in line with Disability Confident guidance
