HR and Payroll Administrator

Psicon Ltd; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated HR and Payroll Administrator to join their team in Canterbury. This role offers a unique opportunity to support HR administration, including payroll processing, onboarding, and maintaining employee records. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and a keen attention to detail, thriving in a vibrant and inclusive work environment. With a commitment to employee well-being and professional growth, this position provides a chance to develop your HR skills while contributing to a meaningful cause in the social care sector. If you are passionate about making a difference and eager to learn, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave of 32 days

Flexible annual leave scheme

Well-being days

Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Birthday lie-in

Free breakfast

Funded social events

Staff well-being bursary scheme

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and attention to detail are essential.
• Eager to learn HR practices with a focus on administrative tasks.

Responsibilities

• Administer payroll processing and manage onboarding compliance.
• Maintain HR database and ensure employee records are updated.

Skills

Compliance Understanding

Communication Skills

Attention to Detail

Time Management

MS Office (Excel)

Education

No specific qualifications required

Tools

HR Database Management

Payroll Software

Job description

HR and Payroll Administrator (JOB-308877)

Location: Canterbury, England
Sector: Social Care
Salary: £23,400.00 to £25,350.00 per annum

About Us
Psicon is a specialist neurodevelopmental service working collaboratively with various NHS trusts to provide autism and ADHD assessments. We are an independent organisation, but most of our work is for the NHS, whom we are proud to support. Psicon is committed to offering the best psychological support and healthcare available. We take an innovative approach to the delivery of our services and ensure that they are of the highest standards in the industry.

About the Role
This role involves supporting HR administration, including payroll processing, onboarding compliance, inductions, probationary reviews, and maintaining employee records.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Administer the processing of payroll, including expense claims, overtime, changes to working patterns, and salary reviews.
• Produce salary review letters.
• Manage compliance for onboarding candidates, including pre-employment checks and ensuring documentation is completed as per the Recruitment policy, including DBS checks, references, and Right to Work checks.
• Involvement in the induction process for new starters.
• Support the coordination of the probationary review process, including assisting with internal communications and administering probation outcome letters.
• Maintain the HR database, ensuring employee records and compliance are updated, including undertaking DBS renewals and processing amendments to personal data.

Person Specification:

• Good understanding of compliance.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Understanding of the importance of confidentiality.
• Excellent time management with the ability to organise, create, and prioritise own work schedule.
• Experience using MS Office packages, particularly Excel.

This role is ideal for someone eager to learn HR practices, with no specific qualifications required. As a junior-level position, it focuses on administrative tasks, including possible minute-taking, running payroll on spreadsheets, and letter writing. The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and a solid understanding of compliance and confidentiality.

Working at Psicon
We value our employees as an integral part of our service delivery and believe in recruiting and investing in the best employees. We pride ourselves on providing our employees with the opportunities and resources to achieve their potential. We are keen to provide a vibrant, fun yet challenging working environment for our team who share in our core values of trust, integrity, commitment, and kindness and work collaboratively to achieve our company goals:

• The best possible customer service.
• The most efficient and effective clinical work.
• A thriving and engaged workforce.
• A truly inclusive organisation.

Benefits include:

• Enhanced annual leave of 32 days a year (inclusive of bank holidays).
• Flexible annual leave scheme providing the ability to buy or sell back additional days.
• Well-being days.
• Pension scheme (with the option of enhancing via salary sacrifice).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Birthday lie-in.
• Free breakfast, including 'pastry Mondays'.
• Funded social events.
• Staff well-being bursary scheme.

Please note that Psicon is committed to ensuring 'safer recruitment' and therefore the successful candidate will be required to undertake a standard check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the cost of which will be met by the Company.

Psicon is committed to adhering to the Equality Act (2010) and provides equal opportunities to all applicants, staff, and clients.