Remuneration Team Manager

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization in Southend-on-Sea is looking for a Remuneration Team Manager to lead their team and manage the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). The role involves providing strategic leadership, managing payroll processes, and ensuring compliance with national guidelines. Candidates should hold a master's degree or equivalent experience in workforce systems and possess strong communication and analytical skills. This position offers a chance to contribute to the enhancement of workforce management across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Educated to master's degree level or equivalent experience in workforce systems.
• In-depth knowledge of ESR/workforce systems.
• Significant experience in managing payroll and workforce data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the remuneration team effectively.
• Provide support and advice on technical aspects of ESR.
• Compile and present reports to key stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data Analysis

Workforce Management

Education

Masters degree or equivalent experience in a leadership role with workforce systems/Payroll

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

PowerPoint

Job description

Job overview

This role will be responsible for managing and developing the Trust's Electronic Staff Record (ESR), ensuring benefits realization, best practice, and integration across associated systems i.e. Payroll. Reporting to the Head of Establishment Systems Team, the post holder will manage and develop systems and processes to ensure ESR and associated systems are effectively deployed and used across the Trust, providing an essential data management function for the Trust, and ensuring timely workforce and payroll management of all employee groups.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide leadership to the Remuneration Team, ensuring that the team delivers an effective, efficient and customer focused service, which meets the changing needs of the NHS, the organization, managers, employees and deliver key objectives. The role will work closely with the EST Reporting Manager to ensure that the quality checking staffing structures/hierarchy is in place, and that ESR is updated with establishment and employee specific changes. To provide transactional services that should be fully compliant with national guidelines and local policy requirements including GDPR. To act as the operational lead for the liaison with the Trust's payroll provider. The post holder will be expected to travel to any one of the MSEFT sites as required for meetings.

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Lead and manage the remuneration team
• Provide support, advice and guidance to own team with regards to technical aspects of ESR, workforce structures, pay and grading.
• Support the overriding requirements of the function and the Trust by demonstrating the ability to work in a flexible independent manner.
• Provide training and advice to managers and key stakeholders as appropriate
• Manage key stakeholder relationships regarding terms and conditions, pay awards and the timely execution of implementation and management of the operational aspect of the relationship with SBS.
• Highly developed and effective communication skills in dealing with complex information.
• Interpret and advise the Trust on the impact of pay circulars, Agenda for Change amendments and incremental changes to the workforce.
• Analyse and interpret highly complex issues/problems relating to payroll data and formulate action plans where required to address any identified risks.
• Ensure that key performance indicators are monitored monthly, and any challenges escalated appropriately.
• Compile and present reports and analysis as required to key stakeholders, at all levels of the Trust, providing assurance that the project is delivering on the business case objectives.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to masters degree level and/or equivalent level of experience working in a leadership role with workforce systems/Payroll

Desirable criteria

• ESR/Payroll Qualifications acquired through CIPP

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• In depth knowledge of ESR/workforce Systems
• Significant experience of managing workload in a workforce/finance systems function and agree solutions with service users and across the Trust and give advice
• Significant Experience managing workforce structures, data reporting and information management

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a payroll function
• Understanding of workforce metrics and KPI's

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

• Effective communication and interpersonal skill, able to deal with Managers and staff at all levels efficiently and courteously and in a confident and assertive manner. Attend meetings and present to diverse groups of people.
• Able to produce and develop complex and intuitive management reports to monitor utilisation, identify themes and trends and performance compliance

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria

• Excellent Windows IT skills, including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and in particular, Excel

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Remuneration Team Manager JD&PS (PDF, 299.7KB)
• Remuneration Team Manager JD&PS (PDF, 299.7KB)
• Privacy Policy (PDF, 441.0KB)
• AFC Pay Poster 25/26 (PDF, 32.3KB)
• Behaviours Framework (JPG, 298.0KB)
• Applicant MS Teams Checklist (PDF, 560.5KB)
• Trust marketing brochure (PDF, 2.1MB)
• General Statements - AFC - V5.1 (PDF, 424.6KB)
• Application Form (DOC, 233.0KB)