Payroll officer/senior payroll officer

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Payroll Officer/Senior Payroll Officer

The closing date is 17 June 2026

DSFS are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, organised individual to join our payroll team. The role is part of a team within the finance department that provides a payroll and pension service to Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Derbyshire Support and Facilities Service Ltd

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for their own payroll section and workload to help deliver an accurate and quality payroll service.

You will also undertake the responsibilities of payroll checking, calculating manual payments and calculating and checking overpayments

About us

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

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Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are, along with the criteria that is required.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Educated to GCSE level and attained Grades A - C or 4 - 9 ib English and Maths
• Studying towards or have achieved a national payroll qualification

Experience

• Previous experience within a payroll environment
• Previous experience within an NHS payroll office

Skills and Knowledge

• Proven ability to prioritise workload
• Effective written and verbal skills
• Ability to work under pressure and demonstrate initiative
• Knowledge of statutory regulations relating to payroll
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Knowledge of microsoft packages
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex information
• Good understanding of Agenda for Change/NHS terms and conditions
• Previous use of ESR, the national HR and Payroll System

Personal Attributes

• Proactive
• Motivated
• Confident and positive
• Ability to work with attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work flexibly to meet deadlines

Demonstrates DSFS values

• Demonstrates DSFS values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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