Payroll Technician

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a Payroll Technician to join our friendly Payroll Shared Services team. This role plays an important part in supporting staff wellbeing by making sure pay, pensions and expenses are processed accurately and on time.

You will be involved in preparing and checking payroll information, keeping employee pay records up to date, and helping to process pay changes, expenses, sickness absence and pension deductions in line with Trust policies. Working as part of a supportive team, you will help spot and resolve issues early to prevent problems and ensure staff are paid correctly.

A key focus of the role is helping staff with pay-related queries in a calm, clear and reassuring way. By taking the stress out of pay, pension and expense questions, you will help colleagues feel supported and enable them to stay focused on providing high-quality care. You will build your knowledge through training, guidance and shared learning, with opportunities to develop your skills over time.

You will also contribute to improving the way the payroll service works, support digital and paperless processes, and share knowledge with colleagues to help maintain a positive and effective team environment.

If you enjoy working accurately, helping people and being part of a service that makes a real difference behind the scenes, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for delivering an accurate, efficient and customer-focused payroll service within our Payroll Shared Services department. Duties include maintaining and updating employee pay records on the payroll system, inputting, checking and verifying payroll data, and independently confirming payroll outputs to ensure accuracy and compliance. The role involves processing contractual and personal pay changes, temporary variations, expenses, timesheets and sickness absence, applying occupational and statutory pay provisions as appropriate.

You will be required to apply and reconcile statutory and voluntary deductions, including tax, national insurance, pensions and salary sacrifice schemes, ensuring compliance with HMRC, NHS Pensions and employment legislation. A key aspect of the role is responding to payroll queries in a supportive, professional and reassuring manner, helping to reduce the stress and impact of pay issues on staff and enabling them to focus on delivering the Trust's vision and high-quality care.

You will support reporting requirements, KPI monitoring and service improvement initiatives, contribute to system developments and e-business solutions, and keep up to date with legislative changes, sharing knowledge with colleagues to support team effectiveness and service continuity.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.