Are you looking for a career that makes a real difference? A role with Achieve together might be the perfect opportunity for a long-lasting, rewarding career in the social care industry.
We are looking for team members who are passionate about supporting people, helping our Operations teams deliver excellent care and support, and celebrating achievements.
Sound like you? Join the team today and embark on a new career adventure.
The Head of Pay and Reward will take responsibility for developing, implementing and managing the total reward strategy, ensuring Achieve together is able to attract, motivate and retain the best possible talent. The role will have oversight and overall accountability for ensuring compensation, benefits, recognition programs and renumeration are competitive and drive employee attraction and retention.
The role’s main responsibilities will include:
- Advise and inform on Achieve together reward and recognition strategy.
- Effectively train and lead a payroll operations and rewards team.
- Completion and oversight of compensation and benefits benchmarking.
- Pay and reward analysis and reporting, including statutory payroll and Gender Pay Gap reporting.
- Oversee and ensure an accurate, timely payroll operation.
- Implementation and enhancements to pay and reward systems.
- Stakeholder engagement, collaborating closely with internal operations, people and finance teams to ensure effective delivery of reward and pay initiatives
About you
Our perfect candidate would have:
- Extensive experience managing payroll and reward for a large, multi-site, 24/7 working, complex organisation. Experience of this within the healthcare or social care sector highly desirable.
- In depth knowledge of payroll legislation, HMRC regulations, UK reward regulations and pension schemes.
- Strong understanding of the iTrent payroll system and also Wagestream ideally.
- Experience in introducing and leading benefits - including negotiations, engaging market comparisons, and supplier engagement/ management for example in Pensions, life/ medical insurances, health cash plans, car schemes, flexible benefits, company car schemes.
- Experience of change management and driving continual improvement.
- Professional certification in compensation and benefits is advantageous (for example CIPP qualification and/ or CIPD Reward Certification).
- Experience with payroll transitions, implementations and integrations desirable.
About us
At Achieve together, we strive to support and inspire the people we care for in order to give them the resources, skills and confidence to live their lives independently, and to the fullest.
Here, you’ll embark on a career adventure like no other, with training opportunities, wellbeing initiatives, recognition schemes and team events.
Our other benefits include:
- Competitive salary
- Matched pension contributions
- Annual leave plus bank holidays
- Employee discount schemes across a range of retailers and services
- Wagestream - a financial health app that offers access to financial advice, financial health coaches, gives you the ability to receive optional pay advances and more
- Reward and recognition schemes such as Refer a Friend, Team Member and Manager of the Month, Shining Stars and Heroes Awards
- Career progression opportunities and access to our online training platform Access
Without our incredible team, we simply wouldn’t be who we are today. We’re always on the hunt for hard-working, passionate people who want to make a difference and help others – so what are you waiting for?