Job summary
- Main area
- Payroll
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 338-8010248-26
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust HQ
- Town
- Willerby
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Payroll Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dedicated individual to lead our Payroll and Pensions Team due to the upcoming retirement of our current Payroll Manager.
You will be joining an award winning and CQC Rated Good Trust that delivers a wide range of health and Social Care services to people throughout East and North Yorkshire, employing approximately 3,600 staff.
We are ranked among the best in England in national performance ratings having been awarded a ‘Green’ rating for the Provider Capability Rating, an assessment across six domains of Strategy, Quality, People, Access, Productivity and Finance.
We are proud of our Trust community and you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you need to lead our team of dedicated Payroll and Pensions staff.
We work flexibly and have an excellent approach to work and life balance.
We are looking for a talented Payroll professional with experience of managing a payroll team preferably within the NHS.
You will lead a small team of dedicated Payroll and Pensions Professionals and be a key member of the Finance Management Team helping shape the financial support the team provides the Trust.
This is a Business Critical role that supports our values of caring, learning and growing.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for the overall management and performance of the payroll, pensions and associated functions within the Trust, ensuring staff are paid in accordance with their terms and conditions, investigating and advising on highly complex issues.
- To ensure statutory and NHS returns are accurate and meet financial timescales and legal requirements, interpreting these when necessary.
- To manage payroll and associated services
- Be accountable for achieving key performance indicators for the Payroll Department.
- To develop and maintain electronic processes and systems to enable continuous improvement
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information in regard to this vacancy, please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications, Education and Training
Essential criteria
- CIPP qualification in payroll management or equivalent experience and learning in Pay and Pensions admin and management to post graduate level.
- Appropriate level of Professional competence and continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Project or programme management theoretical knowledge and application
- Broad knowledge of HR processes
- Management qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Full understanding of relevant policy drivers and their application to NHS pay and pensions agenda
- Expert understanding/application of NHS pension and pay requirements.
- Detailed understanding and knowledge of ESR in relation to payroll and associated functions.
- Evidence of knowledge of successful change management processed
- Significant experience of working in a supervisory role within an NHS payroll department.
- Experience of leading a complex pay and pensions system change, and evidence of process redesign.
- Experience of producing reports from ESR
- Able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within the organisation
- Ability to work across organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
- In depth specialist knowledge of payroll and pension legislation and policy within the NHS
- In depth and specialist knowledge of payroll and expenses policies linked to HMRC
- Ability to act as the lead on payroll and pension issues for the Trust and able to advise finance and non-finance managers on matters relating to payroll, expenses and pensions.
- Significant experience of managing a payroll team within an NHS organisation.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of presenting Board papers/reports.
- Experience of Web ADI
Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in leading and managing change.
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. Locally, regionally, both verbal and written including formal presentation and ability to influence and negotiate in conflict situations.
- Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level involving leading a team and service development, addressing performance issues when appropriate.
- Analytical thinking and diagnostic skills in relation to both qualitative and quantative data.
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes and attitudes in a culture of equality and diversity.
- Ability to manage financial budgets, including ability to develop business cases
- Ability to commute between sites, requirement to sit at a keyboard.
- To demonstrate a high level of inter-personal skills when engaging and managing individuals in complex/sensitive situations to reach a satisfactory outcome for all.
- Chairs/facilitates management meetings which may involve other agencies both internal and external.
- Work effectively with HR colleagues in the development of integrated processes.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Iain Omand
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Finance and Contracting
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you have any questions or would like to arrange an informal discussion, please contact:
Iain Omand, Deputy Director of Finance & Contracting
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