Nhs random payment

[MALINA2]

Hi,
Never worked for Nhs before but
I am due to start next Month.
Have given them my bank details etc, everything is ready for me to start in the next 3 weeks.
Today I went online on my bank and to my shock I see a payment from the NHS for over 1K . This pay would be = for the monthly hours I have on my contract , so my monthly pay.
How do I give the money back ?
Who do I contact ?
I dont know nobody, I am worried that they have mixed up the names and paid me instead of paying somebody else and now someone has not got their money ! I feel uneasy , I dont think there is a bank account where I could just transfer the money over to give this back ?
Any help appreciated

Just ask them?

Contact the person who hired you and inform them.

If you’re working in a hospital I would contact HR and payroll

I work in NHS HR. Email your recruitment contact and CQC your new line manager and explain what has happened and they will sort it. You can’t pay it back, they just deduct it from your next pay otherwise the tax/ni and pension contributions get messy. I got a huge overpayment when I returned from mat leave so have been on both sides of this.

Argh! Not CQC! “CC your new line manager”

Don't spend it (obvs). They can't take it back as such. They can deduct it from your next pay. So they'll calculate to pay you for the work you've done, deduct the overpayment and you'll end up exactly where you should be re what's in the bank.

@Northernlurker if they deduct the overpayment I will get zero next month as it was the full payment obviously I havent even started working yet

Who do I contact ?
I dont know nobody

Huh? How did you get the job then?

You must have at least one email contact who'll send you in the right direction?

You may not get anything last month but you will have this amount which you seem to think represents a full month's pay so hold onto it and spend it next month? Or alternatively as someone already said, ask the person who hired you?

Next, not last

Yes that's exactly what I meant. Hold on to this then you have the money when you were supposed iyswim. You can ask them to take it back over longer time and several pay packets but they don't have to agree and I do think that's a bit hard to justify when it's money you know you shouldn't have received yet. Unless you've done any training they are paying you for or the post had a recruitment premium? Although those are usually paid after a certain number of months in post.