PAL Leader Recruitment
This page contains information, guidance, and template communications for you to use on the following:
For guidance on promoting the PAL Leader role and encouraging applications, please see here: https://libguides.bournemouth.ac.uk/PAL-ACC/PromotingRecruitment
Please send the following links out to your students to encourage applications:
The apply page on PAL Central has all of the information that your students need for applying for the role, including a job description, important HR requirements and the link to the PAL Leader application form.
We will be in touch again once we commence the shortlisting stage, with confirmation of the number of Leaders needed for each programme. At this stage, please do not commence any shortlisting or confirmation of PAL Leader positions to your students.
The benefits page on PAL Central contains the main benefits of being a PAL Leader including skills that can be developed and feedback from former PAL Leaders.
For guidance on promoting the PAL Leader role, please see this section here: https://libguides.bournemouth.ac.uk/PAL-ACC/PromotingRecruitment, where you can find information on the following:
In order to support your shortlisting process, you may think of conducting informal interviews with the candidates since this could contribute to your final decision.
To provide you with some guidance, please find below our support documents.
The Central PAL Team will communicate the outcome of applications to both successful and unsuccessful candidates.
If successful,
the PAL Leader will need to confirm acceptance of the role and the PAL Central Team will pass on details to PTHP to begin the employment process.
If unsuccessful,
the candidate will be considered as a reserve for the Programme and approached in the event of a PAL Leader's withdraw.
Before your successful PAL applicants can begin their Facilitation Course or conduct any PAL work, they will need to be formally employed by the university and be made compliant to start work in line with employment regulations.
To become compliant, students will need to complete a pack of online employment documents as provided by BU's Part Time Hourly Paid (PTHP) Team and provide a form of Right to Work documentation. Right to Work in most cases is a passport, but if students do not have a Passport or are a Tier 4 student, the PTHP Team will be able to advise what other documents they can provide instead.
All information pertaining to the employment of PAL Leaders will be communicated by the PTHP Team to PAL applicants directly once they are confirmed as successful and processed by the Part Time Hourly Paid Team.
HR's Part-Time-Hourly-Paid [PTHP] have advised that BU can employ international students to work inside the UK, however they cannot employ any students/staff who will be overseas during their PAL Leader contract. This is due to tax and pension implications, as well as employment legislation.
In the unplanned event that an employed student finds themselves overseas and unable to return to the UK during their contract period, this will need to be flagged with the Central PAL Team and HR. HR have also advised that each case will be reviewed on its own independent circumstances, so please flag any concerns with us so that they can be investigated by HR if needed.