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Health and Safety Handbook

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  • Additional Resources
  • Display Screen Equipment
  • Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Checklist
  • Educational Excursions
  • Electrical Safety
  • First Aid in Schools
  • Heating Regulations and Ventilation
  • Introduction
  • Safety Committees and Policies
  • Stress
  • The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations
  • Water
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SSTA Documentation

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  • Effective Meetings Skills
  • Motion Flow at Council or Congress
  • Rules for Ballots and Elections
  • SSTA Constitution
  • Standing Orders
  • Submitting a motion to Council or Congress
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Probationers

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  • New Entrants to Teaching
  • Pensions For New Entrants
  • Probationer Contact Time
  • Probationers Contract of Employment
  • Working with and Managing Pupil Support Auxiliaries
  • Your First Days in School
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Working Time Agreement

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  • 35 Hour Week – The Teacher Contract
  • 35 Hour Working Week
  • Collegiate Time
  • Format of a Working Time Agreement
  • Pupil Contact Time in Weeks Containing Holidays
  • SNC – Model Constitution
  • Working out of School
  • Working Time Agreements
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Miscellaneous

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  • Claiming tax back on professional subs
  • Classroom Observation
  • Job-Share Working
  • Named Person
  • Notice Periods
  • School Closures
  • School Inspections
  • Surplus Transfer of Teachers
  • Travelling to school during severe winter weather
  • Working with and Managing Pupil Support Auxiliaries
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Violence and Health & Safety

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  • Asbestos in schools
  • First Aid Provision in Schools
  • Travelling to school during severe winter weather
  • Violent Incidents
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Equalities

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  • Aging in the Workplace
  • Bullying and Harassment at Work
  • Protected Characteristics Summary Sheet
  • Transgender Pupils
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Job-Sizing

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  • An Extended Guide to Job-Sizing
  • Re-Jobsizing
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Family Care

4
  • Career Break
  • Keeping in Touch Days
  • Maternity and Adoption Support Leave
  • Maternity Leave and Pay
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Other Conditions of Service

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  • Accrual of Holiday when Acting Up
  • Conservation of Salary after Acting Up for more than 2 years
  • First Line Guidance
  • Industrial Action by Other Unions
  • Management Time
  • No Qualified PT
  • Pay and Leave FAQs
  • Role Former PT in Faculty Arrangements
  • The Right to Flexible Working
  • Time & Place Industrial Action by Others
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Part-time and temporary Teachers

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  • Fixed Term Contracts
  • Temporary Promoted Appointments
  • Temporary Teachers
  • Transfer from Temporary Status
  • Working Year/Working Week for part-timers
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For School Reps

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  • Accompanying a Member
  • Becoming a School Representative
  • Post of School Representative
  • SSTA Guidance – Trade Union Facilities
  • Trade Union Recognition – The Benefits
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Pensions and Benefits

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  • Actuarially Reduced Pension
  • Additional Pension
  • Pensions For New Entrants
  • Phased Retirement
  • Scottish Teachers Pension Scheme – Quick Guide
  • Taking Additional Lump Sum (Commutation)
  • Teachers Pension Scheme – Useful Information
  • Docs
  • Health and Safety Handbook

Health and Safety Handbook

  • Additional Resources
  • Display Screen Equipment
  • Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Checklist
  • Educational Excursions
  • Electrical Safety
  • First Aid in Schools
  • Heating Regulations and Ventilation
  • Introduction
  • Safety Committees and Policies
  • Stress
  • The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations
  • Water
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