Salary
Your starting salary will reflect your qualifications and experience. University salary scales are reviewed at a national level on 1 August each year. The University also pays its employees an Oxford University Weighting which is currently set at £1,730 per year. For details of the University’s current salary scales, which include the Oxford University weighting, visit https://finance.admin.ox.ac.uk/salary-scales. The OUW applies to all staff with the exception of those on clinical grades.
For professorial roles the salary will be determined after consultation.
For all other academic roles the grade and full-time salary range for the role will be detailed in the advertisement and the job description and person specification document. If the post you are applying for is part-time the salary will be pro-rata to the number of hours you work. Your salary will normally be automatically increased by one point on the salary scale each year (subject to completing three months service) until the maximum point for the grade is reached.
Hours of work
Non-clinical academic staff (including Professors) are able to determine the duration of their own working time in accordance with the terms of the Working Time Regulation 1998.
The hours for Clinical academic staff (including Professors) are such as are required to carry out their duties to the satisfaction of the Medical Sciences Board.
Employer Justified Retirement Age (EJRA) for academic and related appointments
The University operates an Employer Justified Retirement Age (EJRA) of 30 September before the 70th birthday for academic posts (Professors and Associate Professors) and for very senior research posts (at grade RSIV and clinical equivalents E62 and E82).
Pension Schemes
Eligible staff may join the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Details are available on the website at https://finance.admin.ox.ac.uk/uss
Details for clinical staff on NHSPS pensions are available at https://finance.admin.ox.ac.uk/expenditure-and-purchasing-landing-page
Probationary Period
The appointment for academic staff (excluding Professors) is subject to satisfactory completion of a probationary period. The length of the probationary period will be set out in your contract of employment.
Holiday
Non-clinical academic staff (including Professors) are entitled to a minimum of 28 days paid annual leave inclusive of all public holidays.
Clinical academic staff (including Professors) are entitled to a maximum of six weeks annual leave per year.
For part-time posts the holiday entitlement is pro-rata.
Further information can be obtained from the recruiting department.
Sick Pay
Depending on length of service, employees who are absent from work through sickness or injury may be entitled to payment at the rate of full salary, for a period, through the University’s sick pay scheme.
For further details visit: https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/sickness-absence
Family Leave Schemes
The University offers a set of enhanced family leave benefits from day 1 of employment. This includes:
- enhanced contractual maternity and adoption leave schemes provide new mothers and adoptive parents with primary care responsibility, who meet the eligibility criteria, with up to 52 weeks leave. This is made of up to 26 weeks full paid leave, up to a further 13 weeks leave on statutory benefits, and up to 13 weeks unpaid leave.
- enhanced Shared Parental Leave which gives the option for parents to share up to 50 weeks of the maternity/adoption leave and pay entitlement with their partner.
- additional Paternity/Partner Leave which provides up to 10 weeks of paid leave to eligible new fathers/partners of new mothers/adopters to supplement the 2 weeks of statutory paternity leave.
- up to 12 weeks of Neonatal care leave, paid at full pay, where parents of a newborn child need to take time off whilst they are in neonatal care.
