Are you proactive and passionate about doing a good job? Do you have a strong maths background, an enquiring mind, great communication skills and a strong approach to customer service? If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking a candidate who demonstrates strong teamwork, adaptability, and a willingness to learn in a hybrid working environment. Integrity and a commitment to confidentiality are essential attributes for this role.

This role is flexible in that it could be an experienced payroll professional, committed to continual professional development and looking for a progressive supportive employer to work part time hours or someone who is interested in payroll as a career and is dedicated to embarking on their professional development in Payroll as a traineeship (remuneration dependant on skills and experience).

The capability to analyse data for precise reporting is essential. Additionally, strong organisational skills and self-motivation are vital for success in this role.

The ideal candidate will consistently demonstrate high standards of accuracy and approach their work with a professional attitude. In addition, they will showcase exceptional integrity and the ability to conduct quality checks and provide constructive feedback as needed.

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of completing tasks within deadlines in order to provide effective liaison with stakeholders. Therefore proficiency in computer skills, including good keyboard abilities, is required.

Familiarity with Chris21 is advantageous, though training will be provided. Experience with pensions, HMRC, and tax-related matters will be highly beneficial.

Average of 25 hours per week, ideally Monday to Friday, although this can be flexitime and hours can be focused more around monthly payroll processing times and less at other times to be agreed.  Some flexibility is required as hours may fluctuate around payroll deadlines.

Please click the link to our jobs board to see the role profile, person specification and to apply. If you have questions about the role the recruiting managers details are also publihsed there. For general recruitment queries please email [email protected]

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Payroll Officer/Payroll Services Advisor to join the Payroll Services team to support our payroll shared services for clients across the Black Country and beyond, processing circa. 45,000 employees.

Based in our Parklands Office in Stoke, you will be responsible for a section of payroll for day to day processing, inputting and calculation associated with providing an excellent payroll service.

 

Main duties of the job

Payroll processing, accurately calculating and administering a designated payroll portfolio including all variations to pay and details affecting pay for staff concerned.

Dealing with employees queries through various communication methods.

The payroll system uses a dedicated NHS system; Electronic Staff Record (ESR) this is an Oracle based system. Experience of Oracle or ESR is highly desirable. An excellent understanding of statutory legislation together with a sound knowledge of IT is essential. You should be able to use Word, Excel and Outlook confidently. Knowledge of EASY would be helpful but not essential.

 

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly

 

Job description

Job responsibilities

To accurately calculate and administer a designated payroll portfolio including all variations to pay and details affecting pay for staff concerned.

To complete all administration for a designated payroll portfolio inclusive of ‘P’ forms (P45/P46/P60/P6) and send standard letters to employees and external bodies.

To ensure the provision of a ‘gold standard’ pensions service to employees.

Assistance with the ongoing development of internal Payroll procedures and controls

To assist Team Leaders, with HMRC on taxation issues

 

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Previous Payroll Experience in NHS Payroll/Expenses
  • Experience of complex payroll calculations
  • Experience of Microsoft Applications, including Excel and Word
  • Ability to plan own workload to ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual deadlines are met.

Desirable

  • Use of Payroll Software, ideally Oracle
  • Advance IT skills- high accuracy required

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good standard of Education 4 GCSEs grade C or above including English and Maths

Desirable

  • Qualification within Payroll (NPC, CIPP) or NVQIII or equivalent gained through training and experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Job summary

We are looking for a manager who is experienced and skilled in some, or all of the following areas:

  • Payroll including pensions, sickness, overtime etc
  • Invoice payment using online banking
  • General accounting using Sage to record transactions and complete end of year report for the accountants
  • Primary care finance including enhanced service claims
  • Ability to cover for the practice manager during periods of absence

 

Main duties of the job

We are a friendly practice based in a modern purpose-built building with a CQC rating of good. We have a patient population of 7,000 and are a member of Rushcliffe PCN.

 

NHS experience would be desirable, however full training will be given. Ruddington Medical Centre is an Accredited Training Practice. We have trainee GPs and also a number of medical students. We were rated Good by the CQC.

 

About us

This is an important job, in constant contact with the public and the rewards are joining a great supportive team, modern working environment and the NHS pension scheme. We support each member of staff and ensure everyone is appropriately trained and in return we expect a high level of commitment so that we can ensure we provide an excellent service for our patients.

 

Job description

Job responsibilities

Dr Rai & PartnersJob Description Financial Manager

 

Job Title:

Financial Manager

Responsible to:

Practice Manager

Responsible for:

N/A

 

Job Purpose:

  • Overall responsibility for maintaining practice finances.
  • To contribute to decisions made by the Practice, in particular with regard to accounting, payroll and I.T matters.
  • To ensure the Practice receives all appropriate funding due to it in a timely manner.
  • To complete monthly & quarterly Enhanced Service Claims.
  • To ensure that all liabilities are paid accurately and on time.
  • To maintain clear and accurate financial records.
  • To manage staff salaries and pensions, ensuring all staff are paid accurately and at the appropriate time.
  • To provide administrative support to the Partnership and the Practice Manager.
  • To ensure smooth-running of the Practice when the Practice Manager is absent.
  • To liaise with other Practice Managers within PartnersHealth to ensure consistency in operational processes across all practices.

 

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST

1) The efficient and accurate maintenance of all financial records:

  • Use Sage Accounting to record all transactions, liabilities and payments and create financial reports for the Partners and for Dr Rai as landlord of the Practice premises.
  • Check all monies received, securely handle cash, cheques and BACS payments and ensure that cheques and cash are banked in line with Practice protocols.
  • Reconcile accounts as bank statements are received.
  • Prepare annual Year-End reports for the accountant, including providing evidence of all transactions from the preceding year. This includes the preparation of reports relating to the premises and Dr Rai as the landlord.
  • Maintain reconciled records of petty cash.
  • Maintain reconciled records of private income received.
  • Liaise with Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS), to ensure upgrades to the accounting software are installed when required.

 

2) Undertake monthly, quarterly and annual claiming:

Ensure the Practice receives maximum funding by submitting claims and where data is automatically extracted from the clinical system, checking that data for accuracy to ensure the Practice receives all due payments for the services it provides.

 

3) Prepare staff salaries:

  • Prepare monthly staff salaries in an accurate and timely manner, using IRIS GP Payroll.
  • Liaise with the Practice Manager regarding payment for sickness and maternity leave.
  • Liaise with the Senior receptionist to ensure accurate overtime payments are made to staff.
  • Send monthly RTI submissions to the Inland Revenue via the payroll package.
  • Pay staff income tax and NI to the Inland Revenue by the due date.
  • Pay staff pension contributions into the Practice Pension scheme by the due date.
  • Ensure staff who are not in the NHS pension scheme are given an alternative, which for us is NEST, manage
  • NEST Updates (auto enrolment).
  • Accurately process year end returns by the due dates (including PAYE, NI and Pension information) and produce staff P60s.
  • Ensure any legislative changes to staff pay and pensions are implemented.
  • Manage the salaries of new starters and process leavers, including the production of P45s.
  • Liaise with Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS), to ensure updates to IRIS software are installed when required.

 

4) Arrange payment of invoices:

  • Ensure invoices are paid by their due date, maintaining accurate records for all outstanding payments due and filing invoices in a logical and easily accessible manner.
  • Make payments using internet bank transfers in a timely manner to prevent overdue payments which may result in poor credit rating.

 

5) Invoice third party users of the Practice premises & PartnersHealth

Ensure third parties (who use rooms for the provision of additional services) are accurately invoiced for such use in a timely manner. Invoice PartnersHealth for services such as extended hours or Care Homes. Also invoice for medical student placements & clinical trials.

 

6) Carry out general clerical duties, including those related to patient medical records:

Deal with certain items of incoming post. Ensure paperwork is filed for ease of retrieval and maintain those files on a regular basis.

 

7) Computer housekeeping duties:

  • Maintain up to date smartcards for all staff members, updating smartcard certificates online and organising cards for new staff members.
  • Liaise with computer helpdesk when upgrades, changes and repairs are required.
  • Ensure new staff members have the required access to the clinical system, external email access and access to referral tools such as GP Access or ICE, if appropriate.

 

8) Administrative tasks:

a) Run monthly/quarterly reports on SystmOne to ensure accurate payment to us for the service we provide, when the data on which the payment is based has been extracted automatically by CQRS (Calculating Quality Reporting Service) and submit data alterations as appropriate.

b) Liaise annually with the Learning Disability Facilitator to ensure an accurate Learning Disability Register is maintained and patients thereon are invited in for regular health checks.

c) Attend regular meeting, both in house and outside the practice and produce accurate minutes of such meetings.

d) Assist with annual flu clinics.

e) Organise annual equipment calibration & PAT testing.

 

10) PPG involvement:

Share with the Practice Manager the responsibility of attending PPG meetings, bringing their suggestions/requests to the Partners for consideration and keeping them informed of practice developments.

 

11) GP Training Programme:

Prepare paperwork for each intake of GP Registrars, F2s and medical students. Liaise with the Deanery & Health Education East Midlands regarding the placements. Make contact with future trainees to obtain required information from them. Set up I.T systems for them. Introduce them to the practice and undertake induction on their first day. Make sure periods of holiday leave and sick leave are recorded and transmitted to relevant agencies. When they leave, ensure they are archived on our clinical system and other I.T. access (eg: GP Access, ICE & Smartcard position at Ruddington) is removed.

 

12) Practice Premises:

Liaise with the Practice Manager regarding all aspects of building maintenance and improvement. Together with the Practice manager, source appropriate tradespeople to effect repairs or improvements. Source new and replacement equipment, ensuring best value for money is obtained. Organise visits from the gardener and the window cleaner as appropriate.

 

13) Training:

  • Maintain staff training records on Teamnet, sending timely reminders to staff to undertake overdue training.
  • Complete all mandatory practice led training (Life Support, Information Governance etc).
  • Attend all training course deemed appropriate for the above position to ensure up to date knowledge of legislative changes to pay and pensions. Attend update courses on aspects of electronic claiming.

 

14) GP Partner Holidays:

Maintain GP session spreadsheet, recording holiday/study leave taken and remaining, ensure leave is recorded on SystmOne & on holiday boards in PM Room.

 

15) Any other delegated duties considered appropriate to the post.

 

Special Requirements of the Post1) In order to maintain the service to our patients, there will be times when you will be required to work outside the hours given, particularly when covering absence. This may mean that your distribution or number of working hours could change either during a given week, or from week to week. You therefore need to be very flexible and available during normal surgery opening times.

2) An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the policy for strict confidentiality.

3) An ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and local knowledge, to respond to patients enquiries and requests.

4) Excellent communication skills.

Other Information

This is a description of the job as it is at present constituted. It is the practice of the surgery periodically to examine employees job descriptions and to update them to ensure that they relate to the job as then being performed, or to incorporate whatever changes are being proposed. This procedure is jointly conducted by the principal in conjunction with the job holder. You will therefore be expected to participate fully in such discussions. It is our aim to reach agreement but if this is not possible the principal reserves the right to insist on changes to your job description after consultation with you.

 

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.

Location: Hybrid working – home and Oldbury Council House

Salary: Band J SCP 48-51 (£54,779 – £58,090 Per Annum) (£28.39 – £30.11 Per Hour)

Reference: SAND000007719

Full time permanent

At the heart of the West Midlands, Sandwell is a friendly place to live and work. We are the largest employer in the borough, offering exciting opportunities for all.

Sandwell Council has faced unprecedented challenges over recent times, and we have responded with passion and commitment; continuing to serve and support our local communities.

Our ambition now is to become an outstanding council that is focused on delivering on our vision for Sandwell and can adapt quickly to the changing needs of our community. Our vision is to create a modern, outstanding council; one where our organisational structure, business systems, process and people and cultural working practices are fully aligned to deliver our strategic outcomes.

The HR Service sits at the heart of the organisation and has a vital role in enabling the transition of Sandwell Council through and out of intervention towards excellence. Our service structure is currently going through a realignment, to position us most effectively to meet the exciting challenges and opportunities facing us. These include the implementation of a new cloud-based HR and Payroll system next April; a central role in embedded new organisation values and behaviours; and some major projects around recruitment, future talent and organisationdesign.

Responsible for HR Frontline, Payroll, Pensions, Payroll Reconciliation, and HR Systems, this is a fantastic new role that will be central to the transformation of our HR Service and instrumental in enabling delivery of the Council’s wider transformation strategy.

Essential Requirements

As a member of the HR Wider Leadership Team driving our One Team vision for HR Services, you’ll have the strong, effective leadership skills necessary to help translate this vision into great operational practice, driving for excellent service committed to putting the customer first.

You’ll be a dedicated, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable HR professional, with experience across the full range of activities within the scope of this role. Having the ability to inspire and motivate those around you, particularly during challenging and demanding times, is essential.

Working to our new One Team organisation values and behaviours, you’ll be an excellent, accomplished communicator, able to engage and influence a wide variety of audiences, and capable of leading your teams through change, whilst maintaining professional credibility at all times.

Hybrid working with minimum two days a week working at Oldbury Council House or another Borough location.

Closing date: 3 September 2023.

Interviews (in person): 18 September 2023.

Our offer to you

Sandwell Council are proud to offer employees access to an award- winning employee benefits scheme; a strong health and wellbeing offer; flexi time; and a variety of learning and development opportunities. Find out more about our offer and employee benefits here

To apply for this role

Please click on the “Apply for job” button, submit a CV and supporting statement, demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role.

We reserve the right to close vacancies prior to their advertised date if we receive a large number of applications. Therefore, you are strongly advised to complete and return your application as soon as possible. When completing your application please refer to the supporting documents attached.

If you have a disability and require assistance in making an application, or have experienced a problem whilst applying for a position, please contact the Resourcing Team on 0121 569 3300 or via e-mail to: [email protected]

For more information about working for Sandwell Council, our recruitment process and our offer to you please visit: https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/info/200233/jobs

£26,910 per annum + £3,000 London weighting (if applicable):

AMBITION INSTITUTE:
The postholder will be responsible for providing an efficient and customer focussed HR operations administration service.
Birmingham, London, Manchester

£26,910 per annum + £3,000 London weighting (if applicable):

AMBITION INSTITUTE:
The postholder will be responsible for providing an efficient and customer focussed HR operations administration service.
Birmingham, London, Manchester

About The Role

37 hours per week
Hybrid Working
Salary 
circa £60,000

Closing date: 21 March 2023

Interview Date: 30 March 2023

About us:

Hoople is a successful public sector owned company, based in Hereford with 650 employees. We provide a range of services to our shareholders as well as the private sector in areas such as HR, finance, training and IT. More recently we have expanded our offer to include building services and care provision.

The growth of the company means we now need to recruit to this new role to strengthen our commercial payroll function.  You will lead all aspects of successfully on boarding new payroll clients from negotiating service specifications to making sure we have the right payroll skills and processes in house to provide excellent payroll services.

About you:

You will be a qualified payroll professional with a solid technical payroll background and experience of delivering payroll to external clients. Experience in influencing senior managers, driving forward improvements and project management skills are all essential. As a commercial organisation with public sector roots you must also be commercially minded and have polished stakeholder management skills.

In return we offer flexible working, employee benefits scheme, annual leave purchase and a development package which is tailored to you.

As well as our commercial emphasis, we are a people focused organisation and this is a great opportunity to take a lead and make a difference in a company with social values and a soul.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact: Audrey Clements, Chief Operating Officer [email protected] or Tracey Sampson, Director of HR &OD [email protected]

To apply please complete our online application form and submit a supporting statement of no more than 2 sides of A4, as part of the application, setting out why you could be right for this role and why you want to join us. Please note generic applications not tailored to this role will not be accepted.

Hoople offer 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5yrs service (excluding bank holidays), pension and other benefits.  We provide a flexible benefits scheme called Hoople Benefits which provides a range of discounts and offers.

We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity.  All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered.

The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:

  • Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident” scheme;
  • Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are an Armed Forces Veteran or Reservist. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role.

PLEASE NOTE: Applicants must apply online for this vacancy.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you would like to obtain details regarding feedback on your application please contact Hoople Resourcing at: [email protected]

About Us

Our vision

To provide excellent business support services to the public sector and those who work with them.

Our mission

Creating and building trusted and sustainable relationships in order to deliver business critical services for our key customers.

Our values

  • Passion for improvement – Continuous improvement to develop more effective ways of delivering services for our customers
  • Customer focus – Satisfying our customers and helping them to support themselves
  • Professional integrity – Bringing the best of our shared technical expertise and professional values to our work
  • Mutual support – Whether one-to-one or in teams, we encourage and support each other to strive for excellent performance in all that we do
  • Ambition – Our staff are committed to the success of our company in delivering effective services to organisations, communities and individuals

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Payroll Officer/Payroll Services Advisor to join the Payroll Services team to support our payroll shared services for clients across the Black Country and beyond, processing circa. 28,500 employees.

Based in Wolverhampton, you will be responsible for a section of payroll for day to day processing, inputting and calculation associated with providing an excellent payroll service.

 

Main duties of the job

Payroll processing, accurately calculating and administering a designated payroll portfolio including all variations to pay and details affecting pay for staff concerned.

Dealing with employees queries through various communication methods.

The payroll system uses a dedicated NHS system; Electronic Staff Record (ESR) this is an Oracle based system. Experience of Oracle or ESR is highly desirable. An excellent understanding of statutory legislation together with a sound knowledge of IT is essential. You should be able to use Word, Excel and Outlook confidently. Knowledge of EASY would be helpful but not essential.

 

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly

 

Job description

Job responsibilities

To accurately calculate and administer a designated payroll portfolio including all variations to pay and details affecting pay for staff concerned.

To complete all administration for a designated payroll portfolio inclusive of ‘P’ forms (P45/P46/P60/P6) and send standard letters to employees and external bodies.

To ensure the provision of a ‘gold standard’ pensions service to employees.

Assistance with the ongoing development of internal Payroll procedures and controls

To assist Team Leaders, with HMRC on taxation issues

 

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Previous Payroll Experience in NHS Payroll/Expenses
  • Experience of complex payroll calculations
  • Experience of Microsoft Applications, including Excel and Word
  • Ability to plan own workload to ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual deadlines are met.

Desirable

  • Use of Payroll Software, ideally Oracle
  • Advance IT skills- high accuracy required

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good standard of Education 4 GCSEs grade C or above including English and Maths

Desirable

  • Qualification within Payroll (NPC, CIPP) or NVQIII or equivalent gained through training and experience

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Competitive:

PWC:
We help our clients stay ahead of changes that impact their businesses, navigating complexity and risk.
Birmingham

Competitive:

PWC:
Ensure day to day and adhoc queries in our global payroll mailbox are responded to in a timely and appropriate manner.
Birmingham