Payroll Officer - Developmental Post | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust


Company:	East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Stevenage, SG1 2EF
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	13 Oct 2026
Closing date:	12 Nov 2026

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Summary

We are recruiting for a FTC Payroll Officer for Maternity Cover who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You must be able to demonstrate attention to detail and be confident using Word, Excel and Outlook.

You must be able to work under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines, working as part of a team to ensure payroll meets both statutory and NHS terms and conditions.

Experience of Oracle or ESR is highly desirable. We would consider this as a trainee role on a Band 3.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Contribute to the provision of a comprehensive payroll service to employees of NHS organisations whose payroll is run by the Trust.

Work with other Payroll Officers and Team Leaders to ensure that staff are paid accurately and on time and to ensure a consistent approach to working practice.

Prepare and complete pay and deduction data entries ensuring correct authorisation by managersprior to processing ensuring these are made in line with the relevant legislation and Trust policies.

Validate and checkdata input made by Human Resource department / Workforce and advise accordingly. This includes starters / leavers / change of circumstances.

Once validated set up new starter bank account, tax code, National insurance rate, and pension details/rate.

Maintain accurate records of sick/maternity leave/ parental leave / adoption leavecalculatingreducedpayandsendingwrittennoticetoMangersHRandemployeeswhenthese apply.

Undertaking a range of manual calculations (PAYE, Ni, SMP, SSP etc)

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

• Hertford County, Hertford

• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026

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