East Midlands Shared Services

Delivering quality, affordable and resilient support services
to the public and private sectors

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Support portal

Stuck?
Have a question?
Need some support?

Browse the EMSS Support Portal or contact us there to get the answers you need.

Stuck?

Have a question?

Need some support?

Browse the EMSS Support Portal or contact us there to get the answers you need.

Personal Budget Payroll

Personal Budget Payroll Service offers support for people who directly employ their own carers. This could be funded by the local authority via a Direct Payment, an NHS Health Care Budget, or privately funded by an individual. We’re here to help.

Established in 2012, the Personal Budget Payroll Service has developed the skills and extensive experience in supporting people with a wide range of abilities and disabilities. Our mission is to help our clients remain in control of their care, with advice on all aspects of PAYE and associated issues such as annual leave entitlement, Automatic Enrolment, and pension contributions.

We’re a friendly and experienced team who offer a tailored payroll service to meet every individual’s needs; ensuring our clients meet their employer obligation in a safe, reliable and legal manner.

We understand that ‘one size’ does not fit all and therefore can offer a number of different services all competitively priced to meet your needs.

We are a ‘not for profit organisation’ enabling people to have the confidence that they are getting good value for money and there are no hidden extras.

We are very competitively priced, offering a pay at point service so that you can easily manage your accounts. If you are interested in finding out more then please contact us via the support portal.

Contact us via the Support Portal
to find out more.

DBS Services

We are proud to provide DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) checks, to help organisations undertake security checks of those working for them, ensuring that their vulnerable customers and service users are protected from harm.

Using electronic DBS checks we are usually able to provide results within days of submission. If you decide to apply for a DBS check online using our services, expect a timescale as follows:

Pay at Point admin fee only

£5.60+vat

85%
of enhanced disclosures are returned within 5 working days

95%
of standard disclosures are returned within 5 working days

80%
of basic disclosures are returned within 10 working days

Our average across the UK is 5.4 days for an enhanced check, with several thousand being returned in less than 24 hours every month.

As an umbrella body, we can perform checks for all organisations, large or small, and across all sectors, private, public and third sector alike. We have fully trained staff providing support and guidance at every stage to ensure that you receive the best customer service along with the fastest possible turn-round of your DBS application.

With a modern DBS database, we record every application at every step, and retain a history of transactions. We also retain customer information that ensures we know who to contact and when, as well as maintaining a record of our interactions with them to ensure that we provide a truly bespoke service.

Basic disclosure

£18
+ admin fee & VAT

Standard disclosure

£18
+ admin fee & VAT

Enhanced disclosure

£38
+ admin fee & VAT

We are very competitively priced, offering a pay at point service so that you can easily manage your accounts. If you are interested in finding out more then please contact us via our support portal.

Recruitment

Offering advertising for the not for profit sector including schools, academies, charities and local government authorities.

A single advert with us is priced at a very competitive:

£120+vat

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For information on how to place an
advert, please get in touch.

Browse the recruitment portal to
search, filter and view all
our current vacancies.

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Financial Service Centre

The Finance Service Centre in EMSS operates across the full breadth of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable tasks and functions.

The Accounts Payable service currently process over 1000 invoices daily and offer the ability to tailor payment runs to suit customer needs. Utilising best in class technology and consistently reviewing ways of working, the team ensure processes continue to be as efficient and effective as possible.

Suppliers receiving payment from EMSS are also offered the opportunity to sign up to the Supplier Portal for self-service functionality.

The Accounts Receivable service comprises of a dedicated income collection team that manage the production of invoices for goods/services and oversees the debt collection processes. These processes can be designed around customer policies to provide a seamless service for each organisation.

Both finance functions have extensive experience of payments and income collection in the public sector ensuring that your organisation’s priorities and ethos is reflected in this sensitive area of work.

Contact

Write to us

Business Development
EMSS
Room 300
County Hall
Glenfield
LE3 8SR

Online

Contact us via the Support Portal for any assistance, questions or comments you may have.