Payroll Assistant Full Time

Are you ready for a new challenge and a real opportunity to make a difference at the London Ambulance Service?

The LAS Payroll Team are looking for a Payroll Assistant who is open to new challenges with the ability to build strong relationships with Trust colleagues and managers. Your organisational skills and experience will allow you to support the existing management team working to payroll deadlines, whilst operating in a fast-paced environment. You will be working as part of a team ensuring that all London Ambulance staff are paid accurately and on time.

We are looking for a colleague who will embrace our values and are as passionate about Payroll as we are. Our ideal candidate will have experience of processing payrolls, monthly and weekly and dealing with all payroll related queries.

As well as having excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, you will need to be flexible, have an appreciation of the confidential nature of the work and be able to manage a workload to meet pre-determined deadlines. You should have a pleasant telephone manner and be able to deal with difficult calls if necessary.

Experience of using the ESR System and knowledge in NHS Payroll is essential and you will be expected to interpret the NHS Terms and Conditions and possess knowledge of statutory HMRC and Pension regulations. Basic Excel skills with knowledge of Web ADI are required, in addition to extensive knowledge regarding manual calculations of PAYE, NI, Pensions, and Student loans.

About us

This role is based at our Headquarters in London and is currently operating a combination of office based and home based working.

London Ambulance Service serves one of the worlds most dynamic and diverse cities and is the busiest ambulance service in the UK. We handle over 1.9 million emergency calls from across the capital every year as well as delivering a 24 hour NHS 111 Integrated Urgent Care Service in South East and North East London that we estimate will respond to around 1.4million urgent care calls by the end of the year.

We employ over 9,000 people who work or volunteer, across London to respond to the health needs of over 8 million people who live, work and travel in the capital.

We work closely with our NHS partners and are commissioned by 32 clinical commissioning groups spread across 5 STPs and NHS England for our specialist services.

As the only pan-London NHS provider we have a unique opportunity to play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care right across London.