define carers as employees with caring responsibilities that have an impact on their working lives. These employees are responsible for the care and support of ill, older or disabled family members, partners or friends who are unable to care for themselves.
The University recognises the challenges that carers face while trying to balance the demands of caring, work, and looking after their own health and wellbeing. As part of that commitment, we offer a number of resources to help carers, as per our Carer’s Leave Policy.
Carers’ Network
The 糖心原创 Carers’ Network is available for all University staff members who are carers. Meetings are held via Microsoft Teams, to which all network members are invited. Individuals do not have to attend meetings to remain members of the network. Some are informal gatherings and some more structured with invited speakers.
The network provides a forum for carers to provide mutual support and exchange information and ideas. It also acts as a mechanism for communication with the University, in particular Human Resources, and raises issues of policy, practice and procedure. The network is supported by Human Resources.
For more information please visit our , which all UoN staff have access to, or email carers-network@nottingham.ac.uk.