Payroll Specialist - 35 hours per week

The Quill C Of E Trust, Bolton, BL6 4SG

38 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  21 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  14 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £16.80 - £17.92 Annually (Actual)

Payroll Specialist - 35 hours per week job summary

Are you an experienced payroll professional looking to take the next step in your career? Join our dedicated team and play a key role in delivering accurate and timely payroll services across our Academy Trust and St Bede’s Childcare.

About the Role

As our Payroll Specialist, you’ll lead the payroll function, ensuring all payrolls are processed efficiently and in line with statutory requirements. You’ll also manage pensions administration, auto enrolment, and year-end responsibilities, while maintaining strong relationships with internal teams and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and support the Payroll Team, including appraisals and CPD
• Ensure timely and accurate payroll processing and liaise with HR
• Maintain and improve the Payroll/HR database
• Ensure compliance with payroll policies and procedures
• Apply knowledge of Burgundy and Green Book pay frameworks
• Support annual pay reviews and ensure correct implementation
• Manage pension submissions, auto enrolment, and monthly recharges
• Produce financial and operational reports as needed
• Meet all payroll deadlines and statutory requirements
• Uphold data protection and company policies

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a busy payroll environment
• Strong operational payroll knowledge including pensions and auto enrolment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong IT skills, especially Excel

Desirable:

• CIPP Payroll Specialist Certificate or Foundation Degree
• Experience with local authority and teachers’ pay frameworks
• Experience managing staff and leading payroll teams

Why Join Us?

Our Academy Trust is committed to improving the life chances of all children through education and personal development. Each child is unique. We encourage and support every child.

Our approach is based on sharing excellence within our trust, recruiting, training and retaining the highest calibre of staff who share our vision of enlightening, enriching, empowering and evolving a generation through education.

‘Enlightening, Enriching, Empowering and Evolving generations through education’

We offer a fantastic supportive place to work along with flexible work opportunities, including hybrid working, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services. 

The Trust is committed to safer recruitment practices, and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and it expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Quill C Of E Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-bede-church-of-england-primary-multi-academy-trust

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