Payroll Officer

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Payroll Officer

The closing date is 28 September 2026

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced Payroll Officer to join our Payroll Team and support the accurate and timely delivery of weekly and monthly payrolls across the Trust.

This role is ideal for someone with hands-on payroll experience who can work confidently and independently, applying NHS Terms and Conditions and statutory payroll regulations with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will play an active role from day one, helping to maintain service continuity and ensure employees are paid accurately and on time.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Main duties of the job

• To provide an accurate payroll and pension service to the Trust, ensuring that data is prepared and input into ESR in a timely and accurate manner and within the timetables set within the payroll processing calendar, ensuring that all employees are paid in a timely manner
• To analyse and interpret complex payments (for example, following pay awards, organisational change, re-gradings, etc). Investigate pay queries and analyse detailed data to identify errors and discrepancies. Inform individuals of overpayments and negotiate how monies are recovered
• Using under-pinning knowledge ensure the processing, correct application an