# Payroll Officer (Lower Level)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/payroll-officer-lower-level/27fcf334-0652-4499-89ad-6af24b76de69
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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Northumbria House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Payroll officer
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02T14:20:59.061Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Newcastle_upon_Tyne/Northumbria_Healthcare_NHCT_Northumbria_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Payroll/Payroll-v8314730
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8314730?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Applications are invited for this training role, where successful applicants will undergo a bespoke training programme in NHS payroll and associated terms and conditions.

Working with a team of busy payroll professionals to calculate and input accurate payments to NHS colleagues.

### Main duties of the job

- Interpret and action payments of staff additional hours promptly and efficiently in line with current national, local and Statutory guidelines.
- Other calculations and data entry commensurate with skills and experience
- Operating the Computer based payrolling system.
- Checking authorization and accuracy of data
- Assisting with controls to ensure payments have been paid correctly
- Dealing promptly with any discrepancies to ensure the payment deadlines are met
- Maintaining documentation and records pertaining to the pensions and expenses section.
- Investigating and answering queries both verbal and written.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Interpret and action payments with accuracy and efficiency. Makes decisions around own workload and understands when to highlight problems.
- Understand and complete routine transactions using practical experience.
- Knowledge and awareness of Statutory Requirements
- Experience of computerized payment system
- Experience of dealing with routine enquiries in a confident and sensitive manner.
- Provision of information to managers and colleagues in a confident and sensitive manner.
- Organises allocated workload to meet strict deadlines
- Keyboard skills to achieve input of high quality data with accuracy
- Responsible for the calculation and generation of payments as required.
- Provides support to other members of staff
- Input of financial data into computerized payment system
- Requires long periods of keyboard input of data
- Uses keyboard for a substantial part of the day
- Works within clearly defined policies and procedures with supervision
- Requires periods of concentration to input, check and calculate data and works to strict deadlines.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of work in a payroll environment
- Experience using excel spreadsheets

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in an NHS Payroll Office

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- 5 GCSE/ O Levels, including English & Mathematics or NVQ level 2 or equivalent experience.
- NVQ Level 3/ AAT/ Foundation Qualification in Payroll & Pensions or equivalent experience.

## Documents

- [trust compact (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3037)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2867)
- [northumbria privacy policy (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1899)
- [adm7612 payroll officer (lower level) jd&ps (pdf, 264.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10659006)

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