A-Z of Human Resources policies and employment information
Find out more about our Human Resources policies and employment information by using the A-Z listings below.
We strive to ensure that all our policies are inclusive. If you notice any language used in our policies which you feel is not fully inclusive or representative of the diversity of our employees, please contact the EDI team.
- Absence: Managing Absence Code of Practice
- Academic Freedom:Agreement
- Academic Staff: Attendance and Workload
- Acting up allowance: University policy
- Additional/out of hours working policy (including TOIL)
- Additional Teaching: Payments to Academic Staff
- Adoption Leave: Guidance
- Advertising a post
- Agency Workers Regulations: Guidance for Managers
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- Allowances: Information on Allowances
- Annual Leave
- Annual leave for staff in the Education and Research job family
- Annual leave for staff in the Education and Scholarship job family
- Appeal procedure
- Associate Professor: Role profile
- Associate Research Fellows: Role profile
- Associate Lecturer (E&S): Role profile
- Athena SWAN
- Attendance - severe weather policy
- Authorisation to recruit
- Benefits, Rewards and Recognition
- Bribery - see Code of Conduct
- Bullying and harassment
- Bullying: Dignity & Respect Advisors
- Capability/Performance Procedure - the Capability/Performance Prodedure is supported by Guidance Notes to the Capability/Performance Procedure
- Career break
- Cars:
- Childcare Vouchers
- Claims:
- Casual workers guidance (including claim rates for teaching)
- Flowchart for claims
- Codes of conduct (including relationships between staff and students)
- Compassionate Leave
- Computing facilities: Regulations for use
- Conditions of Employment
- Consultancy work
- Contribution points
- CoSSH: Control of substances hazardous to health
- Counselling service for staff
- Cycle to work scheme
- Data protection - privacy policy
- Death in service: guidelines
- Draft Digital Learning Resources Policy
- Dignity and Respect Policy
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Disciplinary Procedure - the Disciplinary Procedure is supported by the Guidance Notes to the Disciplinary Procedure
- Discrimination: Reporting Incidents of Discrimination
- Procedure for dismissal on other grounds
- Dismissal: procedure for dismissal on the expiry of a fixed-term contract
- Driving vehicles on University business
- Drug abuse: policy and guidance
- Email Good Practice guide
- Emergency Leave
- Employing Postgraduate students: Code of Practice (TQA manual)
- Employment Screening Protocol - Security Clearance
- Environment Policy
- Equal Opportunities Statement
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- e-SR1 system
- e-SR1 authorisation to recruit guidance
- eSR1 FAQs
- Ethical Issues arising from Research and Teaching
- Ex-offenders: Policy on recruitment
- Fieldwork & travel: Safety code of practice, policy and guidance
- Fit notes: Guidance for managers
- Fixed Term Contracts
- Flexible retirement
- Flexible working
- Forms:
- HERA job grading
- Honorary appointments
- Leaver notification form (for use by managers)
- Payroll Office and salary information
- Recruitment and selection
- Probation - mid - PD73
- Probation - final - PD74
- Gifts and hospitality - see Code of Conduct
- Grading of professional services roles (HERA)
- Grievance Procedure - the Grievance Procedure is supported by Guidance Notes to the Grievance Procedure
- Health and Safety
- Holidays: entitlement to bank holidays and closure days for part-time staff
- Homeworking
- Honorary Appointments - Guidance on immigration rule
- Keeping in Touch (KIT) days
- Learning and Development webpages
- Learning & Development Policy
- Leavers: Staff exit questionnaires - manager's notes
- Lecturers (Education and Research): Role profile
- Occupational Health: Referral guidance notes
- Ordinances
- Parental Leave: Guidance
- Paternity/Partner leave
- Participation Payments to Research Volunteers
- Privacy policy
- Salary scales
- Payslips - ePayslips: how to opt-in to ePayslips and how to print ePayslips
- Pay and Benefits Office
- Pay Protection
- Pension salary exchange
- Pension tax changes for high earners - information and calculator
- Performance Development Review
- Points Based System
- Portable appliance testing: Code of practice, policy and guidance
- Postgraduates: Employing Postgraduate students: Code of Practice
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistants
- Pregnancy - see Parents and Carers
- Prevention of illegal working
- Probation: Managing probation guidance
- Procedure for appeal
- Procedure for Dismissal on the expiry of a fixed term contract
- Procedure for Dismissal on other grounds
- Professional Development Programme (PDP) for Lecturers
- Promotion arrangements for academic staff
- Protection of Dignity at work: Policy
- Public interest disclosure policy and Public interest disclosure procedure
- Recruitment
- Redeployment procedure
- Redundancy Procedure
- Referral to Occupational Health
- Relations between staff and students, code of professional conduct
- Relocation assistance scheme
- Research career path
- Research - Code of Good Practice on Conduct in Research
- Research passports: Guidance
- Resignation - see Staff who are leaving
- Restructure and Redundancy Framework
- Retirement (Flexible Retirement)
- Rewarding performance
- Right to work in the UK: Guidance
- Right to request training: Policy
- Safety in fieldwork: Code of practice, policy and guidance
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- Salary exchange:
- Secondment guidance
- Self employment - claims
- Severance - see Dismissal procedures
- College workload models
- Self-employed Teachers, guidance
- Senior Lecturers (Education and Research): Role profile
- Senior Lecturers (Education and Scholarship): Role profile
- Senior Research Fellows: Role profile
- Sickness absence: general guidance for staff
- Smoking policy
- Social media policy and Social media guidance
- SR1: eSR1
- SR1 procedure for recruitment of staff
- Staff life
- Staff exit process - manager's notes
- Stagecoach bus passes
- Statutory rates (Statutory maternity pay, paternity pay, sick pay, etc)
- Strategy (Human Resources)
- Stress
- Study leave/ Leave of Absence
- Students: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
- Sustainability
- Teaching - YouTeach (Learning and Development)
- Term-time staff: Information
- Terms and conditions of employment
- Time off in lieu (TOIL), please see Additional/out of hours working policy
- Trade Unions
- Training: right to request
- Travel policy
- Trent HR:
- Trade Unions:
- Vocational drivers: Guidelines
- Volunteer: Community Challenge
- Volunteer and Reserve Forces
- Weather: policy on attendance during severe weather
- Whistleblowing - see Public interest disclosure policy and Public interest disclosure procedure
- Workload models (College)