Deputy Payroll and Pensions Manager

Job summary

Working Full time : 37.5 hours per week

Would you like the opportunity to join a progressive and forward thinking Payroll and Pensions service?

We take pride in listening and continuously working with our clients to deliver efficiencies, reducing costs whilst remaining a personal service

We are looking to recruit a Deputy Payroll and Pensions Manager, with a passion and commitment to drive the service forward together with a proven record of excellent customer service. The candidate will be required to lead the service and be able to demonstrate you can use your initiative to solve problems in order for strict payroll deadlines to be adhered to. The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate excellent leadership skills. They will also need to have in depth knowledge of the payroll service including ESR, NHS terms and conditions and statutory payments such as SSP, SMP, SAP, Student Loans and Attachment of Earning orders. The successful candidate will be accountable to the Payroll & Pensions Business manager but will also have autonomy to manage your own workload and the workload of your direct reports.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in a selection process, which will comprise of the following:

• a practical assessment,
• a formal interview

Main duties of the job

To be a senior member of the HR Team and integral to the design and development of our service delivery. You will be accountable to the Payroll & Pensions Business manager but will also have autonomy to manage your own workload and the workload of your direct reports.

To ensure that all service delivery meets agreed Key Performance Indicator targets and standards by managing own and team performance and development effectively; ensuring that the Payroll & Pensions team are fully conversant with ESR, Payroll and Pensions rules and regulations.

To be responsible for reporting and management of risks and issues, through agreed governance processes, which impact on the efficient delivery of service to the Payroll and Pensions Business Manager.

To ensure compliance with all statutory year-end provisions and ensuring that all ESR and Pension Interfaces are enacted at the appropriate time (e.g, Disclosure of Senior Managers benefits- Greenbury, NHS Pension Agency data cleansing, HMRC).

Responsiblity for the line management and performance of the HR & Wellbeing Business Services Payroll and Pension teams, including development, motivation and inspiration of the team ensuring adherence to the Trusts values and behaviours. This will include effective recruitment, induction, coaching, management, development and empowerment of each team member to reach their full potential. This includes providing effective annual appraisal and regular review.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.