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Are you enthusiastic, driven, and motivated to deliver a high-quality service learn? If so, this could be your best ever career move! Talk about a chance to make a difference - our entire teams across our Hospitals and Community sites genuinely rely on our service to ensure that they're all paid accurately and on time. And with customers at the heart of all we do, we aim to meet the needs of all our fellow MFT colleagues.

In short, the role of Pension Officer Role focuses on working as part of a team to ensure accurate pension records are maintained for all members of the NHS Pension Scheme employed by the Trust.  It’s a challenging role as you’ll be inputting high volumes of information to tight deadlines. 

In return for your hard work and commitment we offer:

• An excellent pay structure.
• A pension scheme with an employer contribution of 23.78%.
• Annual leave starting at 27 days plus bank holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years' service and 33 days after 10 years' service.
• A range of staff benefits including a lease car scheme and cycle to work.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the accurate and timely preparation and processing of all applications in line  with NHS Pension Scheme Policy for additional purchase contracts, Early Retirements  Reduction Buy Outs (ERRBO), age, voluntary early and ill-health retirement, processing of opting out applications and refund benefits .

Provide specialist written and/or verbal advice to team members, managers and employees  of all disciplines of the Trust regarding interpretation and implementation of conditions of  service and complex pension calculations  

Deal directly with the NHS Pensions Agency to resolve any issues that may arise  Accessing Pension On Line system to update, correct and investigate any issues that may arise. 

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.