Is VSS open to colleagues in Professional Services?
Answer
The scheme is not currently open to professional services staff (including professional, administrative and technical staff) for a number of reasons, including the fact that most professional services staff have more specified role-based job descriptions than academic staff and their work is organised differently, which often spans or has interdependencies across a number of areas of the University’s structures.
Voluntary severance requires that roles lost are not replaced, therefore the consequences of releasing colleagues that may have significant and complex impacts in many other parts of the University must be well understood in advance. Instead, in Professional Services, vacancy control and a review of our ability to respond to vacancy pressures will sit alongside other cost reduction measures.