Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

·         Responsible for the management and delivery of a section of the monthly payroll.

·         Responsible for the daily management of a section of the Payroll ensuring a timely and quality service for the monthly payroll.

·         Ensures that the payroll information is processed in accordance with payroll procedures, the Trust’s policies and statutory regulations.

·         To deputise for the Payroll Team Leader as appropriate, assisting with day-to-day management of the entire payroll team.

·         To assist with the induction and training of new and current payroll staff, with the emphasis of completing work within the financial timescales and legal requirements.

Main duties of the job

·       Production of a section of the monthly payroll within strict quality guidelines. 

·         Analyses, investigates, and resolves queries on weekly reports and amends as appropriate from a range of options.

·         Discusses payroll queries with staff, Managers, Human Resources staff which are often complex, including reasons for delays in payment and other sensitive issues.

·         Discusses payroll issues that may be contentious, deals with performance, coaching, training, and other issues relating to payroll clerks.

·         Initiates a section of the monthly payroll pay run for auditing purposes and ensures amendments are corrected prior to the final pay run.

·         Responsible for inputting of monthly Payroll section, ensuring data is accurately and efficiently entered.

·         Makes recommendations for changes to working practices and procedures within own area, which also have an impact in other areas.

·         Ensures compliance with the rules of the NHS Pensions Agency in deducting appropriate sums from payroll payments.  To manage pension rebates/extra payment instructions as required.

·         To input and complete documentation for allowances and deductions in accordance with Trust/Agenda for Change terms and conditions.

·         To calculate payments due under Occupational Sickness, Statutory Sickness and Maternity Pay Schemes.

·         Verifies income tax entries.

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