MPS New Staff Induction
Please use the following induction checklists to plan and deliver induction to new members of staff.
If you have any queries about the induction process, please contact the School Administrator.
- New Staff Handbook
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This is designed to be a reference guide for new members of staff to services and general information about the University and the School. This will be issued to new staff on their first day, and it is also recommended that line managers refer to it to signpost staff to information. It is not designed to be a complete handbook of individual roles.
- Mandatory Health and Safety induction
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All new joiners must participate in a Health and Safety induction, ideally on their first day at work. This will normally be delivered by the School Administrator, or Technical Services Manager. Where this is not possible, staff can access the materials here:
MPS Health and Safety Induction presentation (.ppt file) [PPT 18.74MB]
- Mandatory Online Learning Courses
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All new joiners must complete online learning courses through the online platform, LearnUpon. These courses normally take less than an hour to complete and can be accessed at a time and place to suit you. Please visit Organisational Development Online learning for information: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/organisational-development/online
Login to your dashboard: https://sussex.learnupon.com/dashboard
The following courses are mandatory:
• GDPR, and Freedom of Information (to be completed within the first two weeks)
• Prevent (to be completed within the first two weeks - this only applies to staff members who have been enrolled on the module)
• Diversity in the Workplace, and Unconscious Bias (to be completed within the first month)
• Fraud Awareness
All staff involved in transactions for the payment of fees by a student or their sponsor, agreements and contracts with commercial organisations, grants, gifts and donations should also complete Anti-Money Laundering training.
Depending on your role you may have additional mandatory training. Please check your LearnUpon dashboard. Please also consider taking up non mandatory LearnUpon courses and additional finance training, also available via the Finance Training webpage http://www.sussex.ac.uk/finance/financialliteracytraining
- New Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor induction
- New Postdoctoral Research (PDRA) staff induction
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New Postdoctoral Research (PDRA) induction checklist
Postdoctoral Research (PDRA) staff - Career Development
Please refer to the services offered by the Research Staff Office
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/research/researchstaff/newstaff
Within one month of starting, the Principle Investigator must arrange a meeting to discuss 'Start of contract discussion' http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/research/documents/start-of-contract-discussions-guidance-and-templates-final.docx
Useful resource for Principal Investigators employing research staff:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/research/researchstaff/principalinvestigator
- New Administrative staff induction
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New Administrative staff induction checklist PDF [PDF 174.90KB]
- New Technical staff induction
- ITS induction materials
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IT Services have put together a series of videos which can be used by new staff as part of their welcome and introduction to the University. We hope that these will enable staff to access the information at an appropriate and convenient time and, of course, staff are welcome to contact us with any queries. If headphones are not available, closed-caption text can be accessed via the CC in the lower right corner.
Please see our page www.sussex.ac.uk/its/staff for a list of the videos.