Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Payroll Officer

The closing date is 01 January 2026

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a driven, customer-focused individual to take on the role of Payroll Officer within our Finance department. As a key member of our team, you'll play a vital role in ensuring the smooth delivery of monthly and weekly payrolls for the Trust, ensuring compliance with the Trust's standing financial documents.

The key components of this role are to deliver an efficient and effective payroll processing support to enable the delivery of the weekly and monthly payrolls as well as supporting excellent customer service to colleagues of the Trust. First class customer service is key to this role as is an eye for detail with regards data entry into the ESR system for changes to contracts ie maternity, change of hours, positions etc.

Join us in supporting our mission to deliver outstanding patient care while maintaining financial integrity. This is a permanent position based at King's Mill Hospital. Apply now to be part of our dedicated team!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details

Date posted

12 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CEN-7657390

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Payroll experience
  • Knowledge of all Payroll statutory requirements
  • Good computer skills
  • Qualified or studying towards European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

Desirable

  • Experience of using a computerised Payroll system

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE in Maths and English
  • Qualified or studying towards payroll qualification NVQ level 3 / Relevant experience

Training

Essential

  • Attends all training in respect of IT and statutory updates and changes

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience of working in a Payroll office
  • Good customer service skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team

Desirable

  • Experience of working for the NHS and working on the Healthpay system

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Full time
  • Flexible working as work often dictates hours

Desirable

  • Ability to change working patterns to reflect the workload in the department
Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Payroll experience
  • Knowledge of all Payroll statutory requirements
  • Good computer skills
  • Qualified or studying towards European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

Desirable

  • Experience of using a computerised Payroll system

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE in Maths and English
  • Qualified or studying towards payroll qualification NVQ level 3 / Relevant experience

Training

Essential

  • Attends all training in respect of IT and statutory updates and changes

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience of working in a Payroll office
  • Good customer service skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team

Desirable

  • Experience of working for the NHS and working on the Healthpay system

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Full time
  • Flexible working as work often dictates hours

Desirable

  • Ability to change working patterns to reflect the workload in the department

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Payroll and Pensions Manager

Joanne Sankey

Joanne.Sankey@nhs.net

07786334310

Details

Date posted

12 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CEN-7657390

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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