What is a Job Role Identifier?

As part of the monthly submissions for the Teachers Pension Scheme, the MCR format allows for Job Role Identifiers to be recorded. This is an employer generated identifier as it will be based on the contractual arrangement an employer has with a member.

If this role identifier is not correctly recorded with Teachers Pensions, or if there is a discrepancy between the role identifiers being used, this can cause service issues for employees as part of their Teachers Pensions Member Record and can cause additional administrative work to correct these errors. 

In light of this, EduPay has a field within the employee’s record to hold this data which will pull through to the MCR report on EduPay automatically.

In order to view and amend the Job Role Identifier for Teachers, first navigate to the Job Roles tab on an employee’s record:

Next, click the Edit button on the relevant job role and a new information box will appear. Click the Pension tab on this box and the Pension ID number field is at the bottom:

Once the number has been input, click Save and this number will appear on the MCR report when an employee has an active service line for that pay period.

If no job role identifier is entered into this box, the system will default to using the employee’s payroll number as the job role identifier. It is also important to ensure that the job role identifier is entered for each new job role on EduPay.

If you have not previously used job role identifiers, we recommend that you contact Teachers Pensions directly for guidance.