SHMS Interim Finance Committee (formerly Resourcing Review Committee)

The School of Health and Medical Sciences (SHMS) Interim Finance Committee will replace the Tooting Resource Review Committee (RRC) and the Clerkenwell SHPS Finance Committee. The membership of the interim committee currently combines members of the former two committees. The SHMS Interim Finance Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving resourcing requests to ensure that the organisation is appropriately resourced in terms of capacity and capability, in line with organisational priorities.

Meeting schedule and process

The SHMS Interim Finance Committee will now meet every three weeks. For the moment, Tooting colleagues will continue to follow the usual application process and use the same forms as were used for submitting RRC applications. The current submission process will continue with Clerkenwell colleagues submitting business cases to Rachel Smith and Tooting colleagues to their finance business partner.

As the meeting schedule has changed, the dates of meetings have also changed. The meeting dates, including dates for submission are detailed below:

This information will be updated as soon as possible to reflect the changes as well as terms of reference for SHMS Interim Finance Committee.

Approvale of urgent business case

Urgent business cases requiring approval outside of scheduled meetings will now be circulated via email for SHMS Finance Committee members' review and decision. Please note this should only be used for in exceptional circumstance for business-critical cases.

Staff Recruitment Review Group (SRRG)

SRRG was established as a means of actively managing recruitment across the university to better support delivery of institutional financial targets. In performing this role, the group also sought to uphold consistent application of key recruitment principles - such as academic workforce planning - and to encourage greater efficiency in local staffing structures

Please note that any exceptional business cases which comprise: new posts outside of budget; academic posts at above Lecturer level; replacement posts which involve increased cost; and, accelerated recruitment that materially impairs the ability to deliver local savings targets will need to be sent to SRRG via your HR Team (James Bowden at Tooting and Vanessa Bucknor-Scott at Clerkenwell). SRRG is a university level committee which meets every 2 weeks. Where necessary, SRRG may also consider and approve posts by circulation.

Please see the Sharepoint site to access the SRRG guidance and process with FAQs, a process map, business case template and details of scheduled SRRG meetings and submission deadlines.  

Additional information

• Staffing Changes - Approval Process Guidance 2022-23 (PDF)
• RRC terms of reference 2023-24 (PDF)
• RRC form (Word)
• Staff costing template (Excel).

More information on pay, pensions and benefits can be found in the pay, pensions and benefits note (PDF).