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Payroll Team Leader

Employer
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Location
Stevenage
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483 per annum
Closing date
16 Nov 2024
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Profession
Other Health Profession
Grade
Band 5
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
We are recruiting for a Payroll Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking to recruit a Payroll Team Leader, who has a passion and drive for providing excellent customer service, who has an exceptional telephone manner and excellent administrative and IT skills and is driven to motivate and guide team members to provide outstanding delivery to our employees and stakeholders.

Demonstrating outstanding attention to detail and have prominent knowledge in current UK payroll legislation. The ability to work under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines whilst being flexible and able to diversify to the changing business needs is essential. Knowledge of NHS terms and conditions and experience of Oracle or ESR is highly desirable.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

Reporting to Payroll & Assistant Payroll Manager to ensure the successful running of the team payroll, providing high quality customer service, ensuring the payrolls are processed correctly and on time.

Managing and supervising existing payroll and pension team members.

Work with other Team Leaders, Payroll Officers & Pension Officers to ensure that staff are paid accurately and in line with both HMRC legislation and NHS Policy.

Training, coaching, and advising payroll team members about payroll and pension issues.

Able to manual calculate complex calculations which include cross tax-year Tax, NI and Pension deductions and refunds.

Process payroll runs, supplementary runs and reversals when necessary.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role

Person Specification

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Strong knowledge of pay procedures and UK statutory legislation.
  • Experience of working in a large fast paced Payroll/Pensions environment, preferably in a shared service environment.


Desirable

  • Proven ability to mentor and develop a team.
  • Experience working with multiple stakeholders


Skills

Essential

  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Impeccable attention to detail, and organisational skills.
  • Manual Payroll Calculations in UK Tax, NI, Pensions and other statutory deductions.


Desirable

  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft packages, specifically Excel with the ability to use VLOOKUPs, Pivots, Mail Merges and Macros.


Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of NHS conditions of Pay, NHS Travel and Expenses Regulations, NHS Pension Regulations, Calculation of PAYE and NHS working practices.
  • Experience of Oracle ESR system.


Desirable

  • Working knowledge in an NHS or local government payroll department


Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum of 5 GCSEs including Maths & English at Grades 9-4 (A*-C) or equivalent qualifications.


Desirable

  • NVQ Level 5 / CIPP / IPPM Qualification.
  • ECDL


Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Avnet House

Rutherford Close

Stevenage

SG1 2EF

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

361-6590343-A

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