Human Resources

Recruitment and redeployment

The full process from beginning to completion.

The recruitment and redeployment pages contain all the information and resources you need to fill a vacancy – either by employing an existing member of staff via the Redeployment Service, or recruiting a new member of staff.

Redeployment
The redeployment service has been developed to provide a centralised resource for use by recruiting departments to source staff who may be suitable for their vacancies.  All vacancies must be advertised to redeployees via the Redeployment Service before any other recruitment is considered. By redeploying an existing member of staff, you help the University retain valuable skills and knowledge; limit the need for posts to be advertised externally, and reduce associated advertising costs.

Redeployees are members of staff.  In the main, these staff members are users of the Redeployment Service because the role they were employed to do is not continuing due to cessation of external funding or their role is no longer required due to organisational change.

Redeployment is a pragmatic, effective and non-bureaucratic approach to recruitment, and the Redeployment Manager works to meet the needs of recruiting departments by identifying and developing the skills of redeployees.   Redeployees have the opportunity to engage in additional training to develop their key skills whilst pursuing suitable alternative employment.

The Redeployment Manager also works to co-ordinate vacancies to potential redeployees.

Find out more about the redeployment service, including guidance for managers and information for staff on joining the register.

Recruitment
A new suite of resources has recently been added to this site to give further guidance and support to all recruiters, including those less familiar with recruitment and those who recruit more regularly.
As well as these recruitment guidance pages, you can also access: