Welcome to Zuyd
Welcome, new Zuyd employee! Your first day here is fast approaching. This site provides information to help you prepare. The information you will find here applies to all new employees of Zuyd. Of course, there is also some information that is specific to starting work in your team and academy or service, and to the location where you will be working. This information will be given to you by your manager or mentor.
More detailed information about the subjects covered below can be found on our intranet, Zuydnet. You can log in as soon as you have a Zuyd account. Your login details will be sent as soon as possible to your private account.
On your first working day, you will be receive a newsletter containing practical information, for a good and quick start at Zuyd. We wish you every success with preparing for your new career at Zuyd and look forward to seeing you on your first day!
Facilities
As an employee of Zuyd, you are entitled to all kinds of practical facilities, including a staff card, which allows you to park, print documents, and borrow books.
Terms of employment and schemes
Many of the terms of employment of Zuyd have been set out in the collective labour agreement for the higher vocational education sector (CAO HBO). These relate to matters including working hours, salary, leave, and pension. If you work at Zuyd via Randstad Employability, different terms of employment apply. There are also numerous schemes of which you can make use.
Working as a lecturer
If you are taking up a new position as a lecturer at Zuyd, or this is your first time in the role, your first year will be very challenging. Alongside the challenges of teaching, you will be familiarizing yourself with the world of a University of Applied Sciences and everything that this entails.
More about Zuyd
Looking for information about our organization, our mission and vision or our facts and figures?
Rights and obligations
As an employee, you must comply with the applicable laws and regulations and with our university regulations. To help you remain compliant, we have drafted a Code of Conduct with information on values, frameworks, and guidelines on how to act towards each other and towards students. In many cases, this means applying common sense and good manners and etiquette.
If a job at Zuyd involves working with students’, colleagues’, or business contacts’ personal data, you will have to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Their privacy is important, and we treat it with care. However, your data is also important to us (our privacy policy for employees provides more information on this).
Zuyd offers various forms of legal protection for employees. If you have a problem and cannot find a solution with the person involved, you can contact our confidential advisor or ombudsman.
Working safely: get prepared
We think it is important that you are able to work safely, in a safe work environment, with good tools and clear work instructions. That is also why each location has company emergency response officers and first aiders who can provide first aid if necessary. But of course, you also have to follow rules and guidelines, avoid dangerous situations, and use the obligatory protective equipment that's been provided. We therefore expect you to read the safety regulations before you start working at Zuyd and to discuss specific safety issues with your supervisor or mentor.