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Senior Payroll Advisor

Job details
Posting date: 30 April 2025
Salary: £32,000 to £35,000 per year
Additional salary information: Excellent Plus Benefits
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 14 May 2025
Location: Home based / Remote with the possibility of occasional travel, EC4Y 8EN
Company: Vita Health Group Ltd
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: vitahealth/TP/12448/3613

Summary

The Role: What you will do?

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Payroll professional to join a busy team, in a high volume, fast paced environment. The successful candidate will have proven experience in a similar role, be proactive, able to work well under pressure and have strong levels of attention to detail. This role will support the Payroll Manager with the daily running and operations of the Payroll functions.

Processes include the end-to-end payroll processes of monthly payrolls for over 1900+ staff, across four different payment dates and all month end tasks, such as reconciliations and pension submissions.

Within this role you will also;

  • Work closely with our pension providers
  • Assist the Payroll Manager in Tax Year End processes
  • Deal with payroll queries from the Payroll Team, staff, managers and third parties
  • Assist the Payroll Manager in the processing of yearly Basic Earnings Assessments
  • Support with other tasks as required
  • Assisting with any training required by the Payroll Team
  • Keep up to date with payroll legislation and procedures and advise other members of the Payroll/HR department where appropriate

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

  • Minimum of 4 – 5 years’ experience working in a high volume, fast paced payroll environment
  • Experience working with multiple payrolls
  • Personable, self motivated and reliable
  • Highly organised and methodical
  • GCSE Maths (or equivalent)
  • Intermediate level or above in Microsoft office (specifically word, outlook and excel)
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality, work within a team and meet deadlines
  • Excellent customer service/communication skills on all levels in a clear and concise manner both verbal and written
  • An awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion
  • Willingness to travel, which may include overnight stays on occasion, as and when required

Desirable:

  • CIPP qualification
  • Knowledge of NHS Pensions and T&Cs
  • Experience of using HR databases

Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do. Now part of Spire Healthcare Group plc we have been providing physical and mental health services for over 30 years. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of Making People Better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. We are an award-winning employer recently recognised nationally as “Best Company to Work for” at the Health and Wellbeing Awards 2024.

This is also recognised by current employees – our most recent Employee Survey results showed the top 5 reasons to work here as being:

  • Supportive team and management
  • Positive work environment
  • Wellbeing and mental health support
  • Trust and respect
  • Autonomy and flexibility

We are keen to progress your skills and enable career development and provide regular Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme, apprenticeships and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here: https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/join-us/careers/

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and is seeking to improve the diversity of its workforce. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity. For further information on our EDI commitments please view here: Vita Health Groups commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to being equitable and supporting the wellbeing of all employees.

  • We are a Mindful Employer
  • Our status as a Disability Confident Leader dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be considered for interview.
  • Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be considered for interview.
  • Our Gender Matters Scheme where all women applicants for senior roles (£60,000+) that meet the essential criteria will be considered for interview.
  • Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
  • Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
  • Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
  • Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
  • Access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues including Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
  • An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.
  • Treating transgender individuals with dignity and recognising the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will facilitate.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check.

Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months.

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.