Employee Benefits Administration Assistant

Job summary

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for an Employee Benefits Administration Assistant to join its busy Employee Benefits Team with the Pay & Employee Services Department.

The Employee Benefits Team supports the employee benefits offerings to employees of STH and to a number of other NHS Organisations. Providing support services to over 15 NHS Organisations and to around 37,000 employees, the Employee Benefits Team deals with the full range of benefits offered including Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work, Childcare Vouchers amongst other benefits.

The role is key in ensuring employees can access benefits in a timely manner and to ensure they get the benefits they need when they need them the most.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Administration Assistant is to provide a full support service to the wider team and will suit a candidate with a sound Administration background and good organisational skills. You will be using Microsoft Office packages including Microsoft Excel on a daily basis, experience would be advantageous but is not essential.

You will carry out a wide range of duties from dealing with correspondence coming into the department, electronically or on paper, electronic filing, scanning etc. Customer service is a key part of the role as you will be dealing with queries from employees of the Trust, Clients, Managers and External third party companies who provide the benefit schemes we offer on a daily basis.

Other duties will include approving employee benefit applications, by performing a number of checks to ensure the employees eligibility for the benefit being applied for, assisting with the completion of lease car orders and other benefits available through Salary Sacrifice schemes which the Trust and Clients make available to employees.

About us

Full training will be given on all aspects of the role, therefore, previous experience in the specifics to the role is not essential.

This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for the maximum period of 9 months. Where there is potential, the secondment/fixed term contract may finish early, or in the first instance, the secondment/fixed term contract may be extended due to the internal/external secondment of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and secondments in relation to the substantive post holder.

Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.