Family
The University offers a range of support initiatives to help you balance work and family at all stages of your life, including schemes for caring of elderly, sick or disabled relatives, parental leave policies, childcare services and finance and more.
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RDM Sponsored nursery places
The University has a scheme that enables colleges and departments to nominate staff or students for a priority place on the nursery waiting list (called a “sponsored place”). RDM has been allocated five sponsored places for 2023-25. Please note that a sponsored place does not guarantee a nursery place, and recipients of sponsored places will be liable to pay all nursery fees. For full details of eligibility and how to apply for an RDM sponsored nursery place, please see policy and application form below:
RDM policy for allocation of sponsored nursery places
If you are on the University’s nursery waiting list at the moment and you wish to be considered for a sponsored space, please complete the application form and return to rdm-strategic@rdm.ox.ac.uk.
Employee Assistance Programme
Health Assured is the University of Oxford's confidential employee benefit designed to help you deal with your personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life or work life, health and general wellbeing. This service is for all University employees, your partners and dependants.
There is also support available from the Staff Wellbeing Programme and the Occupational Health Service, and peer support via Teams channels for staff with caring responsibilities and working parents at Oxford.
Holiday playschemes and sitters
The University has links with a number of organisations across the city, from babysitting services to school holiday and sport camps.
More information can be found on the Additional Childcare webpages.
Visit the University webpages for more initiatives to support work and family life.