• Give notice at your old job

  Task · Due 6 weeks before your your start date at the new job

  Give at least **1 week's notice** if you've worked there a month or more — but **check your contract**, which often requires longer (a month or more). Work back from your start date so your notice period fits.

  Handing in your notice (GOV.UK)

• Hand your P45 to new employer's name (or complete a starter checklist)

  Task · Due 3 days after your your start date at the new job

  Have a P45 from your last job? Give it to your new employer. **No P45** (or you left your last job before 6 April of the current tax year)? Complete HMRC's **starter checklist** and give it to your **employer — not to HMRC**. This sets your PAYE tax code correctly from the start.

  Starter checklist for PAYE (GOV.UK)

• Check you're enrolled in the workplace pension & set your contributions

  Task · Due 4 weeks after your your start date at the new job

  By law your employer must **auto-enrol** you if you're aged 22 up to State Pension age, usually work in the UK and earn over the auto-enrolment earnings threshold (**check this year's figure on gov.uk**). Your employer can **postpone enrolment by up to 3 months** but must tell you in writing, and you can ask to join sooner. The minimum total contribution is currently around **8% of qualifying earnings** (at least 3% from your employer) — check the current rates and band. You can opt out once enrolled, but you'd lose the employer's contribution, so think carefully.

Also included

• Professional membership

  Record · Membership · 30 days' notice · Renews 12 months after your your start date at the new job

  If you hold a professional body membership or licence for this role, track its renewal so it never lapses. Set the provider and reference once you have them.

• Welcome to your New Job setup

  Guidance

  We've added the admin a new job needs — wrapping up your old job, handing over your P45 (or a starter checklist), checking your workplace pension, updating HR, reviewing benefits and a first-payslip check ~6 weeks in — all dated to your start date. The money figures (auto-enrolment thresholds, the pension band, your tax code) change each tax year, so we link to the live gov.uk pages rather than quoting a number. This note creates nothing.