Oxford Brookes University aims to attract, recruit and retain the most talented staff across all of our academic and professional services posts, both domestically and internationally.
The Recruitment and Selection Policy provides the overarching policy in relation to Recruitment and Selection.
The University has different procedures depending on the type of staff being employed:
Permanent and long term staff
The Permanent and long term page provides guidance about the process for recruiting Permanent staff and those to be employed for more than 3 months. It covers the steps involved in the preparation for recruitment, advertising and shortlisting, and selection.
The recruitment flow chart provides an overview of the process.
There are also links to the relevant forms.
Temporary and casual staff
The temporary and casual staff page includes general guidance in relation to the employment of staff on non permanent/short term contract types including specific information on:
- Affiliates
- Associate Lecturers
- Associate Researchers
- Specialist Lecturers
- Temporary agency staff
- Casual contracts (up to 12 weeks)
- Student casual contracts
- Variable hours
There are also links to the relevant forms and information for making claims.
Research staff
The Research staff page is designed to provide guidance for staff planning to make a grant application that includes bidding for research staff to support the project.
Consultants and self employed
The Consultants an Self employed page provides guidance on employment status and processes to follow if you wish to employ someone on a self employed basis.
Apprentices
For details on employing new members of staff as an apprentice, please contact your People Directorate Strategic People Partnering teams.
Secondments
A secondment is an arrangement whereby an employee is temporarily assigned to work for a different part of the University, or in a different role or for a separate organisation. Secondments can offer a number of benefits to both the University and its employees. Secondments can be an effective way of bringing additional experience into a Department or the University and/or building links with other institutions/external organisations to the benefit of all parties involved.
Secondments are a development opportunity but they are not a right and are subject to operational requirements as detailed in the Secondment Policy.