Payroll Officer - Developmental Post

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is seeking a FTC Payroll Officer to provide a comprehensive payroll service for NHS staff. You will work with colleagues to ensure staff are paid accurately and on time, in line with NHS terms and conditions.

The role requires sharp attention to detail and proficiency in Word, Excel and Outlook. Experience with payroll software such as Oracle or ESR is highly desirable, and the position may be offered as a trainee Band 3 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience of Oracle or ESR is highly desirable.
• Proficient in Word, Excel and Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive payroll service to employees of NHS organisations.
• Work with other Payroll Officers and Team Leaders to ensure staff are paid accurately and on time.
• Prepare and complete pay and deduction data entries ensuring correct authorisation by managers in line with legislation and Trust policies.
• Validate and check data input by HR/Workforce and advise accordingly, including starters, leavers and changes of circumstances.
• Set up new starter bank account, tax code, National Insurance rate, and pension details/rate.
• Maintain records of sick/maternity leave/parental leave/adoption leave and calculate reduced pay, sending notice to managers and employees when applicable.
• Undertake manual calculations (PAYE, NI, SMP, SSP, etc.).

Skills

Attention to detail

Word/Excel/Outlook proficiency

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

Oracle

ESR

Job description

We are recruiting for a FTC Payroll Officer for Maternity Cover who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients., At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Contribute to the provision of a comprehensive payroll service to employees of NHS organisations whose payroll is run by the Trust. Work with other Payroll Officers and Team Leaders to ensure that staff are paid accurately and on time and to ensure a consistent approach to working practice. Prepare and complete pay and deduction data entries ensuring correct authorisation by managersprior to processing ensuring these are made in line with the relevant legislation and Trust policies. Validate and checkdata input made by Human Resource department / Workforce and advise accordingly. This includes starters / leavers / change of circumstances. Once validated set up new starter bank account, tax code, National insurance rate, and pension details/rate. Maintain accurate records of sick/maternity leave/ parental leave / adoption leavecalculatingreducedpayandsendingwrittennoticetoMangersHRandemployeeswhenthese apply. Undertaking a range of manual calculations (PAYE, Ni, SMP, SSP etc)

You must be able to demonstrate attention to detail and be confident using Word, Excel and Outlook. You must be able to work under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines, working as part of a team to ensure payroll meets both statutory and NHS terms and conditions. Experience of Oracle or ESR is highly desirable. We would consider this as a trainee role on a Band 3.

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.