Payroll Administrator - St Helens, United Kingdom - Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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St Helens, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Looking for a role which offers career progression? Want to become a Payroll Professional?

Well, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a well organised, comprehensive, and highly motivated Payroll Administrator within a well established and continuously growing Employment Services Department, who currently provide payroll services for 80,000 + members of the NHS community around the North West each month

We are able to offer agile working with a 2 days minimum on site once training is complete - Equipment will be provided.

Please note, interviews may include assessment tasks.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Your role will be to work alongside our Payroll Officers to accurately update the payroll system with changes to pay and pension contributions etc.

To produce accurate and prompt salary payments to all staff, you will analyse, investigate, and resolve queries and discrepancies, and liaise with our customers providing advice as required.

Full training will be provided by our in-house Training team, who will guide and support you as you start your Payroll Professional journey.

Attention to detail is essential, as is providing excellent customer service
- first time every time Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to build effective working relationships at all levels is a must.

The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.

From 1stJuly we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.

The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.

Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:

CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
SAFETY that is of the highest standards
COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients

Our achievements include:

Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.

PAYROLL PROCESSING

Plans own workload to ensure completion of workload within client accounts by payroll deadlines.
Process payroll and salary sacrifice as per client SLAs.
Make accurate and authorised payments, promptly and courteously resolving any queries.
Maintain payrollrelated records including Income Tax, National Insurance, Pensions, Occupational and Statutory Sick and Maternity /Paternity Pay, Adoption leave and Family Tax Credits and any other relevant payments or deductions.
Process manual calculations based on the above as required.
Calculation of reimbursement of staff travel and subsistence and associated expenses in accordance with strict processing timetables.
Make regular and systematic checks of permanent and temporary changes in accordance with the payroll procedures and undertake adhoc validation at the direction of the Payroll Team Leader.
Provide information to the Payroll Team Leader as required to enable the reconciliation of the payroll control accounts and pay advances.
Ensure payroll information is clearly explained when dealing with and ensure queries are handled courteously and confidentially within agreed departmental standards and response times.

MAIN DUTIES

Always maintain confidentiality and security of information.
Identify discrepancies, unusual features or queries at any point in the payroll process and either resolve or refer to the Payroll Team Leader for guidance.
Ensure all documentation is filed in accordance with departmental procedures and that stored material is readily retrievable to respond to queries and for audit purposes.
Ensure all requests for payroll processing meet the authorisation level for that account and escalate to client if not.
Participate in payroll processing ensuring timescales are met, payroll policies and procedure are followed, and all information is accurate and up to date.
Be fully conversant with the effective utilisation of the payroll system, including data entry, system navigation and report generation.
Validate all output from the payroll process to ensure all payments have been paid correctly.