Pension Team Leader

at  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced pension professional with a passion for people and detail? Do you aspire to be part of a progressive team and contribute to delivering an outstanding service to our staff?
We are looking for an approachable, motivated and enthusiastic pension specialist who understands the importance of providing a consistent, precise and dependable service in a fast-paced environment to join our internal payroll team as Pension Team Leader.
Spanning ESNEFTs two acute sites, community sites and community services, you will play a crucial role in leading our pensions team ensuring our two employer pension schemes, NHS and NEST are administered in a smooth and efficient manner. As the pension lead you will ensure compliance with the pension regulations and be a source of expertise for the team.

Your dedication to upholding the highest standards will ensure our dedicated staff consistently receive a supportive, timely and accurate pension service. Our commitment to excellence extends beyond patient care and encompasses all of our valued employees.

• Manage the Trusts Pension Team undertaking appraisals and absence management, as well as providing specialist Pension support to them.
• Ensure the Trust are compliant with pension regulations at all times
• Implement new ways of working and ensure existing processes are fit for purpose
• Work with a number of internal and external stakeholders to resolve complex queries, establish best practice and provide advice.
• Make daily adjustments to plans and schedule in order to deal with unexpected organisation requirements whilst ensuring targets are met. This may include re-allocating work to the team to meet organisational and national deadlines.
• Forward plan the workload in order to meet the department’s objectives and deadlines, considering a longer-term view for future changes in the Trust or department that could have an impact on the team.
• Be an active participant in the departments bitesize training sessions provided to managers across the Trust.

We welcome applications wanting flexible or hybrid working. Whilst working knowledge of NHS Pensions would be an advantage, we welcome applications with previous experience of working within a pensions or payroll environment who may not have previous leadership experience. There is the opportunity for this post to be offered as a developmental role with support to undertake a Level 3 Apprenticeship in Pension Administration and/or Leadership courses and qualifications.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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