Payroll Team Leader

Job summary

Working Full time / Part time

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 Payroll Team Leader, with a passion and commitment to drive the service forward together with a proven record ofexcellent customer service. The candidate will be required to lead a team and be able to demonstrate you can use your initiative to solve problems in order for strict payroll deadlines to be adhered to. Our ideal candidate 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.

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

Accountable to the Payroll/ESR Team Manager/s, the post holder will be responsible for providing a professional operational Payroll/ESR service to the clients of the HR Shared Service.

To ensure that the ESR Payroll Module is able to be processed within agreed deadlines and producing accurate and prompt salary payments to all staff in accordance with all statutory, regulatory and policy requirements. To liaise and communicate with Managers and Staff at all levels to advise on complex payroll queries.

To carry out complex financial calculations and analyse detailed data to identify any areas of error or discrepancy. The post holder will provide day to day supervision of more junior staff, allocating workloads and checking work, with overall ownership of the ESR record

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.