Payroll Administrator

Wave Multi Academy Trust, St Austell, PL25 4FD

25 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  19 January 2026

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Hours: 37 Expected start date: 19.01.2026 Fixed Term Contract until 19.01.2027
• Contract type: Fixed term - Until 19/01/2027
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,041 - £26,876

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a Payroll Administrator to join our dedicated team supporting schools across the Trust. This role focuses on payroll administration, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality while delivering exceptional service to staff.

You will assist with expense and overtime checks, Teachers’ Pension and Local Government Pension Scheme returns, and maintain compliance with education sector requirements. Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills are essential, as you’ll handle queries, data input, and routine correspondence.

If you are organised, professional, and passionate about supporting education apply for this vacancy.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

We may close this vacancy early as we review applications as they are received, to ensure you are considered for this role please do not wait for the deadline to submit your application.

What the school offers its staff

Health &Wellbeing

Pension

Training &Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Wave Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Wave Multi Academy Trust website
• Email address: recruitment@waveedu.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wave-multi-academy-trust

Wave Multi Academy Trust (MAT) comprises of nine regional alternative provision academies, two medical academies in Devon and Cornwall and a special academy in Devon for pupils with social communication and interaction needs.

We provide support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools; or in the last four terms of compulsory education, integration into the world of work or further education.

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