Staff Handbook
The Staff Handbook or Signpost: a Staff Handbook summary as well as more in the All documents list below.
Promotion, pay and benefits
How staff are promoted, paid and what pay and non-pay benefits do they have?
Absence and time off
See what to do for all types of special leave, holidays, sick leave and more as in the folders below.
All Documents:
- Absence and time off
- Adoption leave and pay
- Christmas and New Year Holiday Arrangements
- Difficulties attending work due to bad weather or transport problems
- Flexitime scheme - support staff
- Harmonisation of annual leave year: collective agreement
- Hourly paid lecturer sick pay form
- Bank holiday entitlement for part-time staff
- Holiday entitlement calculation
- Maternity rights and benefits guide
- Parental leave: Collective agreement
- Paternity Leave and Pay
- Sick leave and pay
- Sickness Absence - Reporting Procedure for Managers
- Sickness Absence - Reporting Procedure for Staff
- Special leave (medical appointments, compassionate leave, jury service etc)
- Special Leave - Procedure for Managers
- Well-being and work-life balance
- Benefits and facilities
- Conditions of Service
- Equality and diversity
- Funding opportunities
- Grading
- Grievance procedure
- Harassment
- Leaving the university
- Notice periods
- Pensions
- Additional voluntary contributions (AVCs)
- Planned Retirement Process form PD2006R
- Employment Beyond the Normal Age of Retirement
- Pension scheme retirement provisions
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme guide
- Local Government Pension Scheme - changes in 2008
- Planned retirement process
- Teachers' Pensions
- Universities Superannuation Scheme
- Pay
and financial benefits
- Bikes for Staff
- Childcare Vouchers
- Eyecare
- Guide for Reclaiming Expenses
- Honoraria and Accelerated increments
- Hourly Paid Lecturer Claim Form - HPL2
- Hourly paid lecturer sick pay form
- Pay - general information
- Pay allowances table
- Pay claim form for staff other than PTHPLs - SS1
- Pay enhancements table
- Pay scales
- Mapping of old spine points onto the new 51 point scale
- Pensions and Reitrement
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Teachers' Pensions
- Universities Superannuation Scheme
- Relocation Grant Scheme
- Relocation grant claim form PD15
- Salary Sacrifice Guide for Staff
- Sick leave and pay
- Studying for qualifications (including waiver of fees) - policy for staff
- Travel loan scheme
- Travel and subsistence scheme
- Travel and subsistence claim form TS1
- Staff development and training
- Poor performance, discipline and dismissal
- Promotion and progression
- Regrading Procedure - Support Staff
- Guidance for Managers - Support Staff
- PD2: Regrading Proposal - Support Staff
- Supplementary Information Form - Support Staff
- Role Profiles - Support Staff
- Regrading/Promotion Procedure - Academic Staff
- Guidance for Academic Promotion Process - Lecturers and research staff
- PD3 - Regrading/Promotion Proposal - Academic Staff
- Conferment of the title of Reader
- PD3B: Principal Lecturer to Reader
- Professorial Regulations
- Professorial Regulations - Code of Practice
- Recruitment and staffing
- Redeployment Procedure
- Research Office
- Staff Handbook
- Signpost
- Staff Survey
- Staffing Strategy
- Trade unions
- UCU
- UNISON
- Safety representatives - recognition and facilities
- Trade union consultation: organisational change
- Trade union duties - single request for time off
- Trade union duties - multiple requests for time off
- Trade union recognition - provision for lecturing staff
- Trade union recognition, facilities and time off
- Trade unions and negotiating framework
- Travel and expenses
- Excess travel scheme claim form PD41
- Excess travel scheme
- Guide for drivers of university vehicles
- Guide for Reclaiming Expenses
- Inter -site mileage chart
- Relocation grant claim form PD15
- Relocation grant scheme
- Travel and subsistence claim form TS1
- Travel and subsistence scheme
- Travel loan scheme
- Travel loan scheme - application, form PD16
- Well-being and work-life balance
