About the Personnel Department
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About the Personnel Department

The Personnel Department develops and advises on the university’s policies, strategies and procedures for staff and managers on all aspects of employment. This includes staff planning, recruitment and selection, pay and conditions of service, training and

development, equality and diversity, and employment relations.   The department has a major role in developing and implementing the university’s Staffing Strategy, and activities over the past few years have included introducing senior leadership and management development programmes, enhanced occupational health, staff welfare and counselling services, modernised pay and grading structures underpinned by job evaluation, harmonisation of terms and conditions of employment, equality and diversity actions and introduction of tax-saving schemes for childcare and bikes.

The Director of Personnel reports to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and is a member of the university’s management group and a range of university committees. The Director and Deputy manage the overall HR strategy and work of the department and are supported by four Personnel Managers who have specific responsibilities for divisions of the department and specific projects. 

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Personnel Advice and Administration

The Deputy Director of Personnel and a Personnel Manager (Recruitment and Staffing) are responsible for the delivery and development of day to day personnel advice and administrative services across the university, and for updating personnel procedures and processes.

The operational teams provide an advisory, support and consultancy service for managers and staff in allocated faculties and departments.  Typical activities include organising recruitment processes, contracts, advising on terms and conditions of employment, dealing with pay related issues, sickness, maternity and other leave of absence and processing resignations and retirements. Personnel Advisers provide professional advice on case work such as managing sickness absence, discipline, grievance and poor performance and assist with the development and revision of personnel procedures and processes.

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Employment Relations and Framework

The department organises the university’s negotiating and consultation framework with its trade union representatives, which currently consists of two common interest groups (one for lecturers, and one for support staff groups) reporting to a Joint Negotiating Committee chaired by the Vice-Chancellor.  Major contractual changes are handled through this framework.  Pay negotiations are undertaken nationally under the auspices of the Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES) and through the Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA).  The team is responsible for the university’s reward policy, including pay, pensions and other terms and conditions of service, and incorporating developments in employment legislation.

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Staff Development

The staff development team is responsible for advising on staff development policy. This includes the development and implementation of senior leadership, academic leadership and management development programmes, the university’s appraisal (staff development review) scheme, tuition fee waivers and study for staff, induction and training available to staff from a range of providers internally..

University policy on staff development is managed through a Staff Development Group made up of staff from across the institution, chaired by a Dean. An Equal Opportunities Steering group oversees university-wide equality policies and action plans.

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Other staff

Specialist staff are engaged in equality and diversity work and on the development of personnel management information.

The department is supported by a Departmental Administrator (office manager) and administrative staff who are responsible for safekeeping and storage of personnel files, recruitment and job files, and for updating the website and vacancy details.

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Contact Personnel

Personnel Department
Room 229, Mithras House,
Lewes Road,
Brighton,
East Sussex  BN2 4AT

Tel:  +44/0 1273 642837
Fax:  +44/0 1273 642848

24 hour recruitment answerphone: 01273 642849

Email:  personnel@brighton.ac.uk

 

Personnel advice and administration

For recruitment and selection and issues related to terms and conditions of employment, absence and leaving employment

Staff development

For staff development programmes and workshops, induction, course fee waivers and staff development review (SDR)

Equality and diversity

For equality and diversity policy and action plans, harassment contacts

Department management

Personnel advice and administration teams

Personnel Assistants
Main contact for recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment, sickness and other absence for faculties and departments as allocated below.

Find your faculty or department in a box below for the person to contact.

Health & Safety
Information Services
Internal Audit
Personnel
Science and Engineering
Vice Chancellor’s Office

Becca Eaton
r.j.eaton@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2846

EASE
Education & Sport
Estate & Facilities Management
Student Services

Alice Manvell
a.manvell@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2942

Arts
Strategic Planning Unit
University of Brighton at Hastings

Georgia Grayling
g.grayling@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2236

Brighton Business School
Cultural Informatics
Registry
Residential and Catering Services
Sport & Recreation Service

Gemma Hamilton
g.a.hamilton@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2195

Development & Alumni
Finance
Health & Social Science
Markenting & Communications

Vicky Birks/Rachel Grant
(job share)
v.birks@brighton.ac.uk
rs201@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2842

Administrative Assistants
Recruitment and employment administration, maintenance of database and filing systems, general enquiries

Leanne Allen
(Mon & Wed all day, Tue, Th, Fri 9.30am to 2.50pm)
la55@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 4135

Also IT systems and website administrator
Annette Goodman
(Mon to Thurs)
a.k.goodman@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2840

Assistant Personnel Advisers
Support for Personnel Assistants and Personnel Advisers

Debbie Sherman
d.a.sherman@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2897

Karen Scannell
k.scannell@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2841

Personnel Advisers
Professional advice for managers on employment legislation and handling casework such as performance, grievance and sickness

Louise Carr
l.e.carr@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2253

Rachel Housego
r.housego@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2843

Staff Development

Equality

Staff Development Adviser
Delivers, co-ordinates and advises on development programmes and events; central induction programme; and scheme for staff studying for qualifications

Brenda Aherne
b.aherne@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2898

Staff Development Administrator

James McElvaney
(Wednesday/Thursday/
Friday)
jjm15@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 4113

Equality and Diversity Adviser
Development of our equality agenda and implementation of the university’s equality commitments

Helen Tatch
(Tuesday - Thursday)
ht1@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2835

Department management

Departmental Administrator
Department's records and administrative systems, general enquiries about the department

Jan Berry
(Tuesday to Friday)
j.b.berry@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2833

Deputy Director of Personnel
Policy and strategy, staff planning, and organisational change. Training and advice on formal personnel policies and procedures including grievance, performance, sickness, discrimination.

Natasha Hussain
n.hussain@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2836

Personnel Manager
(Employee Relations and Framework)
Manages the negotiating and consultation framework with the trade unions and develops policy and strategy for conditions of service including pay and reward

Nicky Hughes
n.j.hughes@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2834

Personnel Manager
(Information and Systems)
Responsible for commuinication, personnel systems and production of management information.

Hazel Young
(Tuesday to Thursday)
h.r.young@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 4150

Personnel Manager
(Recruitment and Staffing)
Manages transactional, operations and recruitment processes.

Andy James
a.james2@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 2838

 

Personnel Officer
(Systems)
Working with the Personnel Manager (Information and Systems) to produce management information for managers and external bodies also providing system administration.

Clare Davis
(Tuesday to Thursday)
ceh27@brighton.ac.uk
Ext 1970

Acting Director of Personnel

n.hussain@brighton.ac.uk

 

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