Payroll Officer - Developmental Post | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking a Payroll Officer on a maternity cover FTC. The role requires accuracy, attention to detail and proficiency with Word, Excel and Outlook.

Experience with Oracle or ESR is desirable; trainee Band 3 options may be considered. You will contribute to a comprehensive payroll service for NHS staff, working with Payroll Officers and Team Leaders to ensure timely, correct payments and compliance with statutory and NHS terms.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate attention to detail and be confident using Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Work under pressure and meet strict deadlines within a team to ensure payroll accuracy and timeliness.
• Experience with Oracle or ESR is highly desirable and may be considered for a trainee Band 3 role.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to providing a comprehensive payroll service to NHS staff run by the Trust.
• Work with Payroll Officers and Team Leaders to ensure staff are paid accurately and on time.
• Prepare and complete pay and deduction data entries with manager authorisation in line with legislation and Trust policies.
• Validate data input from HR/Workforce and advise on starters, leavers and changes of circumstances.
• Set up new starter bank accounts, tax codes, NI, and pension details when validated.
• Maintain records of sick/maternity/parental/adoption leave and calculate reduced pay, issuing notices as required.

Skills

Attention to detail

Word

Excel

Outlook

Teamwork

Deadline-driven

Tools

Oracle

ESR

Job description

Payroll Officer - Developmental Post | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

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.

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 the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. 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)

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

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.

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026