Category: General Information for Staff

Nursing room at South Kensington campus

Nursing Room 210- Sherfield Walkway

The new designated resting and nursing room is now available for use for pregnant women and women returning from maternity leave needing to express or nurse. Should the designated room be unavailable the OH Service can provide a suitable room, but cannot guarantee access every day of the week. For further information contact the OH clinic on 49401 or occhealth@imperial.ac.uk. 

Facilities included in room 210:

  • A microwave, fridge, kettle , cups , a range of teas
  • A reclining/gliding chair with a foot stool
  • A wash basin, mirror, clock
  • A radio
  • Emergency milk storage bags & emergency breast pads
  • A range of parenting books which can be loaned using the library loan out book

User responsibilities:

  • In order to gain access the member of staff should go to the Faculty building reception where there will be a signing in/out book and a swipe card. The room can be pre-booked through Faculty reception on ext. 56677.Should access be required out of reception hours this can be arranged through Faculty reception.
  • The expectation is that bookings will not be for any longer than one hour.
  • If the swipe card is not returned after an hour a member of reception staff will check on the member of staff for health and safety reasons.
  • The member of staff is requested to leave the room clean and ready for the next person to use.
  • If supplies are low or there are maintenance issues the member of staff should alert Faculty reception staff who will notify the Building Manager.

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My Family Care – Parenting, Care & Leadership webinar

My Family Care invite Imperial College staff to register for their upcoming webinar, details of which are set out below:

Webinar: “Parenting, Care & Leadership: transferable skills for success with work+family”
Date and time: Thursday, 3rd of April 2014 at 12.30-1.30 pm.

Further information:
This inclusive event draws on My Family Care’s wealth of experience working with parents and carers who want to do a great job with family and still progress with a great career. Real life stories and research findings are combined with practical know-how, to help you identify and take action that fits with your own values and ambitions.

Further details on the Parenting, Care & Leadership webinar are available to view.

Babies and Bumps New Parents’ Network

New parents and parents-to-be are invited to meet other Imperial colleagues in a similar situation for informal networking and mutual support over tea/coffee.

HR will be present to answer any questions in relation to maternity and paternity leave.

For further information of network meeting dates and details of who to contact, please view the relevant campus link below:

 

My Family Care presentations

Imperial is trialling a new service called My Family Care which provides College employees with access to emergency child and adult care. Imperial will be funding free registration to the service for all staff, which will allow them to access emergency childcare, school holiday cover and backup adult and eldercare, with individual staff paying a fee to cover care costs when the services are used. Staff will also have access to online resources providing family-related advice and information.

Representatives from My Family Care will be visiting Imperial later this month to deliver presentations in which staff can find out more about the services available. See below for presentation dates at your campus:

Find out more about My Family Care

Revised Recruitment & Selection Procedure

The College’s Recruitment & Selection Procedure has recently been revised in order to provide more streamlined, user friendly guidance to staff involved in recruitment activities.

The revisions, which are in line with legislation and best practice principles, have been developed in consultation with colleagues from the Equality & Diversity Unit, Faculties and Support Services.

The new look web pages set out clearer requirements about each element of the recruitment process and include

a high level process summary checklist outlining responsibilities, actions and links to further guidance and templates for those who would like more information.

A further review of the recruitment templates and the academic and clinical appointments processes will take place shortly.

All staff involved in recruitment activities are expected to familiarise themselves with this procedure and to have attended a recruitment and selection training course. For advice and support on any aspect of this guidance or specific recruitment issues please contact your HR team.

 View the new procedure.

National Pay Award 2013/14

Following their rejection of the Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association’s (UCEA’s) final pay offer, four of the five New Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES) trades unions remain in dispute over the offer.  As the formal dispute resolution procedure has been exhausted, UCEA has advised that institutions can now implement the pay offer.

The College’s national pay scales have therefore been uprated to incorporate a rise of 1% with effect from 1 August 2013 for those staff remaining on national non-clinical rather than local pay scales. Payment at the appropriate new rates will be made in December 2013 salaries and will be backdated to 1 August 2013.

Local Pay Award 2013/14

Local Pay Bargaining takes place on an annual basis at Imperial, involving negotiations between the College and the Joint Trades Unions (JTUs).

Following the last local pay bargaining meeting on 9 July, the JTUs have confirmed their formal acceptance of the College’s local pay offer of 2% effective from 1 August 2013.

The College’s pay scales and schedules of allowances have been updated to incorporate this increase. This applies to all staff on terms and conditions subject to local pay bargaining. Payment at the appropriate new rates will be made in August 2013 salaries.

For copies of the revised scales and allowances, please view the HR Salaries web page.

 To read further information from this year’s local pay bargaining negotiations, including the JTUs pay claim and the College’s responses and final pay offer, please view the HR Local Pay Award 2013/14 web page.

Staff who elected to remain on terms and conditions subject to national pay bargaining are advised that national negotiations are ongoing and the employers’ final offer of 1% has been rejected by the national trades unions.   Further information on the outcome of the national negotiations will be available in due course.