Trust Payroll Officer

Learning Without Limits Academy Trust, Leicester, LE2 6FU

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  12 August 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week for 52 weeks per year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leicester City Grade 6 Scale Points 15-18

What skills and experience we're looking for

Learning without Limits is a Trust with high ambitions for its learners and we are excited to be appointing a Trust Payroll Officer to help us on our journey. This role will be key to delivering an exceptional and compliant payroll service for our employees.

Reporting to the Trust Finance Manager you will be the Trust point of contract for all matters relating to payroll and pensions, responsible for the prompt and accurate processing of all related data using both internal and external systems.

To be successful in this post you will bring with you a proven track record in payroll, ideally in an education context, and have a high level of emotional intelligence and professional curiosity to provide an exemplary payroll service.

You will be based at our Trust Offices located at Lancaster Academy, south of the City. An integral part of our central team, you will be working alongside a variety of people in a fast paced but supportive environment and will demonstrate a willingness to go over and above in support of your colleagues.

Why work for us?

LwLAT is a small multi-academy Trust based in the heart of Leicester City, serving diverse and vibrant communities. Our strength comes from collaboration, with an emphasis on winning hearts and inspiring minds. We know that by positively celebrating and sharing the great work we are doing, through our vision and values, there are no limits to how high we can aim, and to what our learners, staff and communities can achieve.

You will be given the opportunity to grow professionally and personally in this role.

As a Trust we value inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, please let us know on your application and we’ll facilitate this wherever we can.

You will:

• Have at least 2 years experience working in a similar role, ideally in education
• Hold, or be working towards, a relevant qualification
• Have the ability and confidence to support staff with payroll and pension queries
• Be able to work accurately while meeting key deadlines
• Have up to date working knowledge of current payroll and pension legislation
• Have an understanding of working in accordance with the Academy Financial Handbook
• Be solution focused and proactive; willing to seek out new ways of working
• Have strong IT skills and confidence to use various software systems efficiently and effectively

What the school offers its staff

We can offer:

• Access to the highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
• Favourable annual leave entitlement, above the statutory minimum, plus bank holidays.
• Access to extensive, free and confidential wellbeing services, including counselling sessions, physiotherapy, GP phone and video consultations, menopause support, manspace and mindfulness programmes.
• Staff Benefits Package - Access to a huge range of savings from retailers such as Currys, Halfords, Wilko, Asda, Tesco, M&S, Morrisons and many more!
• Cycle to Work – In partnership with Pluxee, this initiative allows you to make Tax and National Insurance savings on the cost of a new bike and safety accessories. Savings are achieved via salary sacrifice which is managed by the Trust and lets you spread the cost to make payments more convenient.
• Free Financial Support Service from Barclays - support with all aspects of your financial health and wellbeing, and you don't need to be a Barclays customer to use the service.
• Eye Test Vouchers – Free SpecSavers voucher for eligible staff
• Annual Flu Vaccine – Free flu vaccine voucher for eligible staff
• Free onsite parking
• Free tea and coffee

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.

This post is subject to a successful Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check and satisfactory references.

How to Apply:

For safer recruitment purposes we will only accept fully completed LwLAT application forms. CVs and resumes will not be considered.

Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 12th August

Interviews will be held the week commencing 18th August at the Trust Offices c/o Lancaster Academy, Knighton Road East, Leicester LE2 6FU.

Social Media Checks

As part of the shortlisting process, in line with measures identified in statutory guidance relating to safeguarding practice, the Trust will conduct searches on candidates selected for interview, through a third party, on social media in order to identify anything that could give rise to a safeguarding concern in what has been said or done online. Only information relevant to safeguarding concerns obtained from the search will be passed over for consideration during the recruitment process.

Diversity Statement

As an equal opportunities employer, the Learning without Limits Academy Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Commitment to safeguarding

LwLAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employment offers are subject to an Enhanced DBS with barred list check, and a prohibition from teaching check.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013, 2020 and 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance is available on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

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About Learning Without Limits Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Learning Without Limits Academy Trust website
• Email address: kwilford@lwlat.org.uk
• Phone number: 01162746330
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/learning-without-limits-academy-trust

Established in 2016, our Trust operates schools across Leicester and Leicestershire, working with children between the ages of 2 and 16. We are a Trust that prides itself in working within deprived and challenging areas, determined to improve the life chances of all of the children we work with.

Collaboration is at the heart of all of our activity, and whilst all of our schools work in diverse and often challenging contexts, our school communities pull together to support each other overcome the challenges they face.

We value our students, families and staff. We invest in our stakeholders and work with them to be the very best they can be. We listen to their views and respond to ensure that we continue our quest for constant improvement.

We invest in our staff. Our Continuous Professional Development programme draws on the very best we have to offer within our Trust whilst engaging with local partners in order to ensure our staff are highly trained and highly competent as a result. This investment ensures that we are at the cutting edge of current educational practice and at the forefront of innovation.

We challenge existing practice and constantly search for new ideas and solutions. We are on a constant search for improvement and we walk towards new challenges and ways doing things. We have a culture of innovation that supports the implementation of new ideas and staff get exited about stepping in to the unknown and trying things out for the first time.

We care deeply about making a difference and make every effort to remove barriers that get in the way of us supporting everyone we work with. We celebrate the successes and support each other through the challenges, working together as one family of schools for the benefit of the communities we serve.

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