Payroll Clerk

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Payroll Clerk to join our busy Payroll Team at Pinderfields Hospital.

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to develop a career within payroll and NHS services. Following successful completion of a comprehensive 2-year training programme, the post will progress from Band 3 to Band 4.

As a Payroll Clerk, you will work alongside experienced team members and be responsible for the day-to-day processing of payroll information, including data input, calculations, and maintaining accurate employee records. You will play a key role in delivering a high-quality payroll service to staff across the organisation.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Main duties of the job

• To provide an accurate payroll and pension service to the Trust, ensuring that data is prepared and input into ESR in a timely and accurate manner and within the timetables set within the payroll processing calendar, ensuring that all employees are paid in a timely manner
• Complete minimum wage checks in relation to the Home Electronics Scheme
• Check and input salary sacrifice lease cars onto ESR
• Ensure changes are made against employees records in line with the ESR guidelines, ensuring that the data held on the system is accurately held to enable ease of reporting throughout the Trust on employees records ensuring the correct and accurate data is extracted when requested
• Set up new employees onto ESR, correctly setting up all system details for payments, deductions, bank account, tax code, National Insurance and Pension details
• Upon leaving the Trust ensure that the employees leaver details are input in a correct and timely manner for all staff leaving the Trust, final payments are calculated correctly and promptly, P45s issued and Pension records updated and close down. Late notification of leavers will result in complex manual calculations being necessary
• To maintain accurate sickness absence and entitlement records for each employee. Advise the employee and manager of any half and no-pay situations and maintain a deemed pensionable pay record as necessary

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Job responsibilities

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers,home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.