Payroll Technician

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 27 April 2025

Job summary

LPFT are looking to recruit an individual to provide an efficient Payroll Shared Service to all customers to enable them to enhance their commitment to providing Patient/Client care:

o Undertake preparation of a section of the payroll in accordance with Clients' policies and statutory legislation.

o Input and verification of payroll data to the payroll system.

o Provide assistance within the Payroll Shared Services as required.

o Provide information to both internal and external customers.

o To support the team to Implement E-Business and "lean" initiatives to progress system developments.

Do you have a passion for taking the stress out of pay and pensions interactions for staff members - through supportive query resolution, education and awareness and a high attention to detail approach to ensure staff are paid on time and accurately - if so we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

  • Maintain employee pay records on computerised payroll system in a timely and accurate manner. Performing independent confirmation and verification of the payroll output.
  • Check and verify information received from various departments to ensure accuracy and report any data entered incorrectly.
  • Apply and reconcile voluntary and statutory deductions including the import of electronic data for statutory and voluntary deductions, repayments, childcare vouchers, and other salary sacrifice deductions. Ensuring compliance with guidance and legislations.
  • Prepare, analyse, monitor and maintain temporary variation data checking for accuracy and completeness.
  • Monitor and update where appropriate sickness absence, maintain entitlements and apply occupational and /or statutory sick pay provisions to ensure payments during absence are adjusted as appropriate.
  • Determine and apply temporary/permanent contractual and personal amendments to pay records as appropriate
  • Deal with and respond to Payroll enquiries and correspondence from internal and external sources in a polite, friendly and professional way, adhering data protection.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Date posted

14 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

274-11445-COR

Job locations

Henshaw House

Runcorn Road

Lincoln

LN6 3QP


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Get in touch today:

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Get in touch today:

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum of 3 O levels/GCSE equivalent including Maths and English
  • ECDL or equivalent knowledge of computer

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience of working in payroll
  • Working Knowledge of a computerised payroll/ HR information system

Skills

Essential

  • Aptitude for working with figures to a high degree of accuracy.
  • Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and performance targets
  • Understand the need for a high standard of integrity, professionalism and confidentiality
  • Team Player with a flexible and adaptable attitude
  • Proficiency in keyboard skills
  • Able to use initiative
  • Good Communication Skills
  • Working Knowledge of a computerised payroll/ HR information system.
  • Ability to effectively identify and communicate responses recognising the need for empathy
  • Demonstrate excellent customer service skills
  • Adaptable to change and is solutions focused
  • Able to analyse and solve problems
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum of 3 O levels/GCSE equivalent including Maths and English
  • ECDL or equivalent knowledge of computer

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience of working in payroll
  • Working Knowledge of a computerised payroll/ HR information system

Skills

Essential

  • Aptitude for working with figures to a high degree of accuracy.
  • Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and performance targets
  • Understand the need for a high standard of integrity, professionalism and confidentiality
  • Team Player with a flexible and adaptable attitude
  • Proficiency in keyboard skills
  • Able to use initiative
  • Good Communication Skills
  • Working Knowledge of a computerised payroll/ HR information system.
  • Ability to effectively identify and communicate responses recognising the need for empathy
  • Demonstrate excellent customer service skills
  • Adaptable to change and is solutions focused
  • Able to analyse and solve problems

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

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Henshaw House

Runcorn Road

Lincoln

LN6 3QP


Employer's website

https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Henshaw House

Runcorn Road

Lincoln

LN6 3QP


Employer's website

https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Payroll Manager

Kelly Blake

Kelly.blake9@nhs.net

07970841502

Date posted

14 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

274-11445-COR

Job locations

Henshaw House

Runcorn Road

Lincoln

LN6 3QP


Supporting documents

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