To gain access to our buildings: Arthur Lewis, Ellen Wilkinson and Humanities Bridgeford Street, firstly collect your staff card, then email Access Control accesscontrol@manchester.ac.uk with your Staff ID number and the buildings you require access to. 

Disabled staff support is available via Access to Work, a government scheme administered by the Department of Work and Pensions. Funding can be provided for equipment, travel and support worker costs. 

Access to Work will usually fully fund equipment for new starters if an application is made within 6 weeks of your start date. 

Further information can be found on our Access to Work webpage.

Health and safety induction checklist

Your line manager should provide you with a health and safety induction checklist that should be completed within your first two weeks of starting your role. The checklist will be slightly different depending on whether you are academic staff or professional services staff.

SEED Health and Safety Induction

All new starters in SEED, whether they have come from outside of the University or have internally transferred, must complete a School level health and safety induction. These are run as required, and invitations are sent out after your start date. If you feel you have missed an induction or have never been invited to one, please email SEEDestates@manchester.ac.uk. 

This local training complements the mandatory essential training for all staff:

• LAOD153 Essential courses for all new colleagues. 

Fire Marshal Training 

SEED also requires new starters to complete the fire marshal training:

• TLCF101E - Fire Marshalls Training

Display Screen Equipment Assessment

It is a requirement that all staff complete a DSE Assessment. If you spend time working from home in your role, you should complete one for both your home set up and your office set up.

All academic and PSS staff who work with students or research participants are expected to undertake Information Governance Training Courses.

For information relating to the Humanities New Academics Programme (HNAP), please refer to the Faculty Intranet.

Completion of HNAP is a requirement for all new academic staff to pass "academic probation".

Staff must be enrolled on HNAP by their Head of Department/Discipline.

All posts at the University are subject to probationary periods as detailed on the People Directorate Probation page

Academic Probation

Newly appointed academic staff in grades 6,7 and 8 are subject to a probation period of 3-4 years. The probation period for Academic staff may be reduced where there is evidence of a successful comparable probation in another UK University.

The SEED Probation Committee meets annually to review the progress of staff subject to academic probation, and to approve those who have met the probation criteria as having “passed” their probation.

Staff will be contacted in advance of the committee meeting to submit their CVs via the SEED Probation CV online submission form.

While research fellows and other independent researchers are not subject to a four year academic probation process, it is beneficial for the School Probation Committee to review their progress each year. This allows SEED to support their ambitions and progress, and mirrors practice in other Humanities schools.

Resources

• SEED Academic Probation Requirements (including T&S, T&R and Presidential Fellows).
• SEED Probation CV online submission form