Prior to Hire
The introduction welcomes new hires to UC San Diego Health Sciences and provides essential pre-start information. It outlines the onboarding process, including an email request from the Academic Resource Center (ARC) to complete new hire documents via DocuSign. New employees must attend an in-person onboarding session on Wednesdays, bringing required original employment documents. Completing both the online and in-person onboarding before the start date is crucial for a timely start and system access. The introduction also advises employees to communicate any start date changes and to review their benefits options, with a 31-day enrollment window.
Please review the checklists as a guide for what to expect before your start and within the first 30+ days of employment.
BEFORE YOU ARRIVE
This page provides an onboarding checklist for faculty, academics, MSP Staff Physicians, and Postdoctoral Scholars as new hires to UC San Diego Health Sciences.
Review your benefit options and eligibility. You have 31 days to enroll from your start date. Please review the Retirement and Benefits webpage.
If you are appointed at 50% or more in a non-visiting title, you are eligible for full benefits.
Visit the HR benefits website to read or watch informational videos about your benefit options.
Even prior to your start date you may attend a benefits orientation hosted by Health HR and ask questions about benefits as well as voluntary retirement accounts from a Fidelity Investments representative.
Orientations are held via zoom Mondays from 2 - 4:30PM (From Zoom.us Meeting ID: 860 0697 1008; Passcode: Benefits).
If you cannot attend, view the online benefits orientation video.
The policies and benefits for postdoctoral scholars differ from Faculty, non-faculty academics and the MSP Staff Physicians.
Postdoc benefits are administered through Gallagher Insurance. Please review the Postdoctoral Scholar benefit options.
Postdocs may enroll online at the UC Path website.
International scholars without a social security number may be required to complete the form as a PDF.
NEXT STEPS
You will receive an invitation from the Academic Resource Center (ARC) to complete new-hire paperwork, including verification of your right to work in the U.S. This should occur on or prior to your start date.
Be on the lookout for an invitation from ARC sent from ARCrequest@health.ucsd.edu.
Resources for upon your arrival to UCSD: New Hire Essentials.