Payroll Officer

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Payroll Officer to ensure efficient and compliant payroll processing for staff. Ideal candidates should possess a background in payroll operations, excellent customer service skills, and applicable qualifications such as GCSE in Maths and English. This role involves working as part of a dedicated team at King’s Mill Hospital. The successful applicant will contribute to outstanding patient care while maintaining financial integrity within the Trust's parameters.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a Payroll office.
• Ability to change working patterns as needed.
• Attend training for IT and statutory updates.

Responsibilities

• Deliver efficient payroll processing support for monthly and weekly payrolls.
• Provide first-class customer service to Trust colleagues.
• Ensure compliance with financial documentation.

Skills

Knowledge of Payroll statutory requirements

Teamwork

Experience of using a computerised Payroll system

Education

GCSE in Maths and English

Payroll qualification NVQ level 3 or relevant experience

Tools

Healthpay system

European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Payroll Officer

The closing date is 01 January 2026

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a driven, customer-focused individual to take on the role of Payroll Officer within our Finance department. As a key member of our team, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the smooth delivery of monthly and weekly payrolls for the Trust, ensuring compliance with the Trust's standing financial documents.

The key components of this role are to deliver an efficient and effective payroll processing support to enable the delivery of the weekly and monthly payrolls as well as supporting excellent customer service to colleagues of the Trust. First class customer service is key to this role as is an eye for detail with regards data entry into the ESR system for changes to contracts e.g. maternity, change of hours, positions etc.

Join us in supporting our mission to deliver outstanding patient care while maintaining financial integrity. This is a permanent position based at King’s Mill Hospital. Apply now to be part of our dedicated team!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Knowledge of all Payroll statutory requirements
• Qualified or studying towards European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
• Experience of using a computerised Payroll system

Qualifications

• GCSE in Maths and English
• Qualified or studying towards payroll qualification NVQ level 3 / Relevant experience

Training

• Attends all training in respect of IT and statutory updates and changes

Experience

• Previous experience of working in a Payroll office
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Experience of working for the NHS and working on the Healthpay system

Contractual Requirements

• Full time
• Ability to change working patterns to reflect the workload in the department

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust