Communication Responsibilities
Communicate payroll information to trust staff by appropriate method, which includes e‑mail, written correspondence and verbally. Liaise with external bodies on various payroll matters. Maintain a close professional working relationship with the Human Resources Department, ensuring best practice is maintained between both. Ensure the correct standard Trust or Payroll letters are used to answer any correspondence received.
Ensure all correspondence is answered promptly and, where necessary, obtain the employee’s written consent to release personal details. Organise and prioritise own workload, ensuring strict deadlines are adhered to, be responsible for an allocation of payroll records on a day‑to‑day basis, ensuring the timely and accurate payment of salaries. Prepare and complete all staff pay and deduction data entries, ensuring correct authorisation by managers. Interpret hours worked and payment due from Locum staff timesheets and input into the integrated HR/Payroll system (ESR).
Validate and check data input made by the Workforce/Recruitment/Medical Staffing departments. Check weekly payslips for correctness from download via E‑Rostering and check changes made to monthly and weekly payrolls. Maintain accurate record of sick/maternity/parental leave, calculating when reduced pay is appropriate and advising the HR department and managers when required. Input appropriate payroll details for new and current staff, e.g. payroll deductions, bank account details, tax code, National Insurance and pension details. Assess previous service credit and make necessary adjustments to pay. Calculate manual payments for staff that commenced after the payroll deadline. Ensure that both Statutory and Non‑Statutory deductions are made in line with the relevant legislation and Trust policies, such deductions include car parking, Union subscriptions, rents, expenses, student loans and Court orders.
Answer queries from staff or outside statutory bodies, promptly in accordance with the Payroll procedures. Please see attached job description for further information.
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