Payroll Officer (with Level 3 Apprenticeship)

Job Overview

Kickstart Your Payroll Career with the NHS!

Looking to build a career in payroll with hands-on experience and guaranteed progression? Join our NHS payroll team as a Payroll Apprentice on a permanent contract, with automatic promotion to Payroll Officer (Band 4) upon successful completion of your apprenticeship.

Why Join Us?

1. Earn while you learn – Competitive salary with a Level 3 Payroll Administrator Apprenticeship qualification.
2. Clear career progression – Secure a Payroll Officer role after training.
3. Fully supported training – 6 hours of study per week, online learning tailored to your job.
4. Vital NHS role – Help ensure NHS staff are paid correctly and on time.

What You’ll Do

1. Assist with payroll processing, ensuring accurate payment for NHS staff. Handle payroll changes, calculate salaries, and audit payments in line with NHS regulations.
2. Act as a key contact for payroll queries, delivering excellent customer service.
3. Work alongside experienced payroll professionals, gaining valuable skills.

Eligibility

1. UK/EEA citizen or have lived in the UK for 3+ years.
2. Not enrolled in any other government-funded training programme.
3. An apprenticeship does not meet the Home Office requirements for sponsorship to work.

Apprenticeship Details

1. Duration: 15-18 months
2. Study Time: 6 hours/week (during working hours)
3. Hours: 37.5 hours per week, with 2 days of remote work once competent.

Main Duties of the Job

1. To work within a team of payroll officers and payroll support officers ensuring an accurate payroll is produced according to defined deadlines, adhering to statutory and NHS terms and conditions.
2. To process all variations to pay, and check accuracy of payments made through calculating, auditing, evaluating and verifying changes to pay. To ensure changes do not breach local, national or statutory regulations. This includes both basic and complicated calculations.
3. To provide initial point of contact with staff and to answer general queries in relation to payroll issues, which are commensurate with the responsibility and level of the post, seeking advice as required.

Working for Our Organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria

1. GCSE C/level 4 or equivalent

Knowledge
Desirable Criteria

1. Knowledge of current Statutory regulations
2. Knowledge of NHS Terms and Conditions

Experience
Desirable Criteria

1. Previous experience of working within a Payroll environment

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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