Pensions & Reward Manager

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

We are seeking an experienced, innovative and highly motivated pensions professional to manage our pension and reward service. Spanning both Epsom & St Helier and our community services, the successful candidate will join our people systems team to deliver an outstanding pensions and staff benefits service to our workforce.
If you are motivated by delivering excellent customer service, have experience of managing a people focussed pensions service and are committed to continually evolve and improve this important service, we would like to hear from you.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of NHS pension schemes
• Operational Payroll Management expertise
• Expert knowledge of national NHS terms and conditions (AfC and Medical)
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to communicate clearly and effectively
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The post holder will provide high quality, advanced, specialist knowledge and technical expertise to department managers, clinicians, ward managers and all other trust staff in all areas of pension administration and trust staff benefit schemes.
The post holder will be responsible for the trusts day to day pension and staff benefits provision and developing the service, including running pension clinics for our people and working closely with our people systems team, payroll liaison and SBS to provide a complete pensions advice and administration service.
The post holder will ensure the pension service is compliant with statutory regulations and Trust audit requirements. The post holder will be responsible for continual service improvement, measuring performance against Service Level Agreements and taking pro-active remedial action to ensure delivery to a high level of customer satisfaction.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.