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Where to find NHS doctor jobs in the UK

By the Health Job Scout team · 5 min read · Fact-checked 1 November 2026

There is no single website for every NHS doctor job in the UK. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland each use their own recruitment site, so where you look depends on where you want to work. This guide covers the three official sites we have checked, what you can search by on each, and how to avoid missing a job.

We have not covered Wales here, because we have not been able to confirm from an official page how its jobs are advertised. If you want to work there, start with the employer's own website.

NHS Jobs: search and apply for NHS jobs

NHS Jobs is where you search for and apply to jobs advertised in the NHS. The search page has two main boxes: what you want (a job title or skills) and where (a postcode, town, city or country). You can add a distance, but only if you have entered a postcode, town or city.

The NHS Business Services Authority user guide lists further optional filters: job reference, employer and pay range. It also covers the parts of the site that save you time. You can save a job, but you must sign in first, and you create an account if you do not have one. You can save a job search, so you can run the same filters again later. And you can choose to get an email alert for a saved search.

The guide we read is the 2023 version, and it says you can save up to 5 searches. The site may have changed since then, so check the current limit when you set yours up. Our job titles guide will help you decide what to type in the first box.

NHS Scotland jobs: the National Recruitment portal

The portal says it lists all jobs advertised for NHS Scotland health boards. You can filter by what, where, distance, salary, employer (health board), region and job family. Medical and Dental is one of the job families. The salary list includes doctor grades, so you can pick, for example, SHO, Clinical Fellow, Specialty Doctor or Consultant, and it also has LAS (FY1 and FY2) and LAT (core and specialty trainee) posts. Our post on jobs after PLAB beyond FY2 explains how those posts differ.

There is a Create alerts option on the portal. Each job card shows a closing date, so check it before you start an application.

GP practice and other health-related posts are advertised elsewhere. The NHSScotland jobs page links to two separate sites for those, called GP Jobs and Practice Jobs.

NHS jobs in Northern Ireland: HSC Jobs

HSC Jobs, which was formerly called HSCRecruit, covers health and social care jobs in Northern Ireland. You can search by category, organisation, pay band and search term. The Medical and Dental category is described on the site as covering all grades of medical and dental staff. The organisation list includes the five health and social care trusts and the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency.

How to set up job alerts and search without missing jobs

These tips are our advice, not official guidance.

• Try more than one job title. The same kind of post can carry different titles, so search two or three, and use the grade filters where a site has them.
• Save your searches on each site, and turn on email alerts where you can.
• Read the closing date first. A job can close before you have finished your supporting statement. Our supporting statement guide and checklist help you prepare before a job appears.
• Look at the hospital's own careers page for a trust you like, in case it advertises somewhere else.
• Not sure whether you can apply before your GMC registration is complete? Read applying for NHS jobs before GMC registration. If you have no NHS experience yet, this guide covers it.

Where Health Job Scout fits

NHS doctor jobs: the short version

Use NHS Jobs, the NHSScotland portal and HSC Jobs for the nation you want to work in. Save your searches, switch on alerts, read the closing date first, and check an employer's own page if a job you want is not listed.

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