Under new legislation, every employer in the UK must put certain staff into a pension scheme and contribute towards it. This is called 'automatic enrolment' (AE).

Your obligations as an employer are to choose an eligible pension scheme, add your eligible employees to it and coordinate the scheme with your payroll. You must communicate certain information to your staff but do not need to offer them financial advice. You then complete a Declaration of Compliance with The Pensions Regulator and all in time for your so-called 'staging date'.

To take the headaches out of AE, Chartered Financial Planners PFM Dental, which offers advice exclusively to dentists, provides an AE set-up service tailored to your requirements. Independent financial adviser, Jon Drysdale (pictured), said: 'For a fixed fee, we will help you with all or just parts of the process – making sure you're fully compliant by your staging date.'

Visit the Workplace Pensions page on www.pfmdental.co.uk or contact Jon on 01904 670820.