Remuneration Team Manager | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization located in Southend-on-Sea is seeking a skilled professional to manage its Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. You will lead the remuneration team and ensure compliance with national guidelines while handling payroll data and stakeholder relationships. Key responsibilities include analyzing complex payroll issues, training managers, and compiling reports. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and communication skills, with a commitment to delivering high-quality services. This role offers opportunities for personal growth within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team focused on electronic staff systems.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex payroll issues.
• Capability to deliver effective communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the remuneration team.
• Provide support and guidance on ESR technical aspects.
• Ensure compliance with national guidelines and policies.
• Analyse payroll data and formulate action plans.
• Compile reports and present analysis to stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Effective communication

Payroll data analysis

Job description

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.

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.

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.

Key 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.
• To 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.

This advert closes on Thursday 1 Jan 2026.