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Talk to your immediate manager if you have questions or comments. You can also send an email to integration@slu.se.
Information about the project will be provided continuously via email, meetings and here on the staff website.
In this project an inquiry into an organisational integration of SLU’s University Animal Hospital (UDS) with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (VH) is taking place.
Here you will find the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the integration project. The content will be updated regularly.
There are three main reasons:
To integrate activities at UDS and VH Faculty.
Previous inquiries, projects and interviews have reached the conclusion that UDS should be integrated with VH, as this will bring the organisational prioritisations, management and governance closer to each other.
There will be regular emails, meetings and updates to the staff web. Talk to your line manager if you have any questions or feedback. Discussions will also be ongoing with employee organisations and the safety representative.
During the autumn, the Vice-Chancellor’s Management Group will discuss and propose decisions for managing the historical financial deficit at UDS in future funding allocations. Activities at UDS must be adapted to the needs of the university.
The project leader and controller are external project costs, financed as part of the expansion project for the veterinary surgeon and veterinary nursing programmes. Financing will come from SLU. No resources will be taken from the government funding allocated for increasing the number of places on the aforementioned programmes.
Organisational changes at UDS share many elements with this project, although they are primarily run within the UDS. The vice-chancellor has tasked the acting Head of the University Animal Hospital, Marianne Grauers, with leading the organisational changes to integrate VH with UDS until the end of the year. These changes aim to improve the work environment, focus on financial control and SLU’s needs within education and research.
This question can only be answered once a decision is in place on how the integrated organisation will be structured. Existing staff will be prioritised throughout the process and redundancies will be avoided.
The integration will not affect animal owners. The care offered by UDS will maintain its excellent standard and the out-of-hours emergency service will continue – this is a condition for holding on to accreditation for providing veterinary education.
Read more about important events and upcoming project activities here.
A group aimed to work with the terms of conditions related to employment has been put together. The team consists of one safety representative and the following persons:
Groups with staff representatives from UDS and VH/KV have done risk and impact assessments separately. The discussions continued in mixed groups and the content has now been compiled.
The compilation were a part of the supporting documents for the Vice-Chancellor's decision in February. The main risks identified in the process will be elevated to an action/continuity plan.
Safety representatives as well as union representatives were invited to all meetings. The Swedish Work Environment Agency's brochure "Riskbedömning inför ändringar i verksamheten (ADI 575)" were used as support.
UDS's staff representatives, in the groups working with risk and impact assessments, are:
KV's staff representatives, in the groups working with risk and impact assessments, are:
The steering group’s tasks include approving project plans (including budget and schedule) and the project’s deliveries. The members of the steering group are:
The group also includes a student representative, appointed by Sluss, Karin Kjellander. The project leader and controller will always be co-opted members of the steering group, and additional members can be co-opted if necessary. Meetings will take place at least once per month.
The project group consists of project leader, Anders Bjurstam and management support, Marnie Hancke. They will lead and coordinate the implementation of the project directive.
Several groups will be put together to exercise the tasks within the project.
The secretariat: controller and communication support.
Talk to your immediate manager if you have questions or comments. You can also send an email to integration@slu.se.
Information about the project will be provided continuously via email, meetings and here on the staff website.