Payroll Team Leader

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 27 March 2025

Job summary

Are you an experienced Payroll professional with a passion for people and detail? Do you aspire to be part of a progressive team and contribute to delivering an outstanding service to our staff?

We are looking for an approachable, motivated and enthusiastic payroll specialist who understands the importance of providing a consistent, precise and dependable service in a fast-paced environment to join our internal payroll team as Payroll Team Leader to cover maternity leave until August 2026.

Spanning ESNEFTs two acute sites, community sites and community services, you will play a crucial role in leading our payroll team maintaining an high level of customer service to our colleagues and ensuring all deadlines are achieved. As the payroll lead you will ensure compliance with all statutory regulations and be a source of expertise for the team.

Your dedication to upholding the highest standards will ensure our dedicated staff consistently receive a supportive, timely and accurate payroll service. Our commitment to excellence extends beyond patient care and encompasses all of our valued employees.

Main duties of the job

You will manage, on a day-to-day basis the Trusts Payroll Team providing specialist Payroll support to them in addition undertaking appraisals and absence management.
Planning and organising the efficient distribution of total workload between team members to ensure all areas of payroll are completed in line with strict deadlines.
Work with a number of internal and external stakeholders to resolve complex queries, establish best practice and provide advice.
Make daily adjustments to plans and schedule in order to deal with organisation requirements and to ensure targets are met, including re-allocating work to the team to meet the organisational deadlines
Forward plan the workload in order to meet the department's objectives and deadlines, not only on a day-to-day basis but taking a longer-term view into account for future changes in the Trust or department which could impact on the team.
Be an active participant in the departments bitesize training sessions provided to managers across the Trust.

We welcome applications wanting flexible or hybrid working. Whilst working knowledge of NHS Payroll would be an advantage, we welcome applications with previous experience of working within a payroll environment who may not have previous leadership experience. There is the opportunity for this post to be offered as a developmental role with support to undertake an apprenticeship, Leadership courses and qualifications.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Date posted

13 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

14 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR2307-24

Job locations

659 The Crescent

Colchester

CO4 9YQ

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant degree or equivalent experience plus further training and experience to post graduate diploma equivalent.

Desirable

Post graduate diploma
Payroll qualification

Experience

Essential

Previous senior payroll role.
Working collaboratively as part of a team.
Advanced IT Systems including - Microsoft Office.
Experience of communicating with a range of people both. within and external to the organisation.
Experience of dealing with complex payroll cases.
Line management.

Desirable

NHS Payroll experience
ESR experience
Project management
Working autonomously

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Advanced keyboard skills.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) to deal with complex or sensitive information.
Ability to manage and work well in a team.
Good attention to detail and accuracy.
Able to plan and prioritise a range of complex activities within defined deadlines.
Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service.
Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive and confidential information.
Able to demonstrate a commitment to Trust Values.
Able to analyse and interpret solve complex problems.

Desirable

NHS IT systems

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant degree or equivalent experience plus further training and experience to post graduate diploma equivalent.

Desirable

Post graduate diploma
Payroll qualification

Experience

Essential

Previous senior payroll role.
Working collaboratively as part of a team.
Advanced IT Systems including - Microsoft Office.
Experience of communicating with a range of people both. within and external to the organisation.
Experience of dealing with complex payroll cases.
Line management.

Desirable

NHS Payroll experience
ESR experience
Project management
Working autonomously

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Advanced keyboard skills.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) to deal with complex or sensitive information.
Ability to manage and work well in a team.
Good attention to detail and accuracy.
Able to plan and prioritise a range of complex activities within defined deadlines.
Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service.
Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive and confidential information.
Able to demonstrate a commitment to Trust Values.
Able to analyse and interpret solve complex problems.

Desirable

NHS IT systems

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.