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About the role
Langford Vets is excited to offer two Junior Clinician positions in Small Animal Surgery at our state-of-the-art Small Animal Referral Hospital on a fixed term contract.
As a Junior Clinician, you will rotate through both Soft Tissue and Orthopaedic Surgery, gaining hands-on experience and training in all aspects of small animal surgical care. You’ll be joining a dynamic and supportive team of experts, including 9 ECVS Diplomates, multiple residents, and a broad range of other specialists across our hospital.
What You'll Do:
- Work directly in clinical practice across soft tissue and orthopaedic surgery
- Receive structured training and mentorship from experienced specialists
- Participate in the emergency surgery out-of-hours rota (currently 1 in 6)
- Contribute to clinical teaching and collaborative research initiatives
This position is ideal for someone seeking further development with the potential to progress into a residency position upon successful completion of the programme.
Key Dates:
- Application Deadline: Friday, 30th May 2025
- Interviews: Tuesday, 10th June 2025
- Start Dates: November 2025 and January 2026
For informal enquiries, feel free to contact Lee Meakin at Lee.Meakin@bristol.ac.uk.
To apply please complete our application form: https://forms.office.com/e/McnU8GmMHu
Job Description
Responsibilities
Job purpose
Job Description
Reports to: Soft Tissue/Orthopaedic Clinical Leads
Job purpose:
· To support the surgical caseload within the Small Animal Referral Hospital.
· To provide excellent care for patients.
· To provide excellent customer care.
· To communicate and liaise effectively with clinicians and nurses working within other services to ensure cases are managed efficiently.
· To provide clinical teaching to undergraduate students and rotating interns as and if required.
Principal Accountabilities:
· To provide small animal surgical services for the Small Animal Referral Hospital, ensuring all cases are accepted and treated appropriately.
· To work with multidisciplinary teams to provide excellent care for all patients.
· To ensure the continuing growth of the referral caseload by providing excellent customer and patient care.
· To perform diagnoses, treatments and procedures to the standards expected by the RCVS for a referral teaching hospital.
· To ensure all case records are accurate.
· To ensure that client consent is gained as necessary and that they are aware of and kept up to date with treatment costs.
· To ensure that laboratory findings are reported to clients.
· To assess and examine in patients on a daily basis, and to keep all records up to date and update all relevant staff of any changes.
· To follow all Langford Vets protocols and policies.
· To ensure telephone queries are answered in a timely manner.
· To have students assigned to you on their clinical rotations as required.
· To contribute to the assessment and delivery of appraisals of students on their practical rotation when applicable.
· To ensure that Veterinary Nurses are supervised to the required level.
· To ensure the correct pricing and charging of all procedures.
· To be available when requested on the rota (minimum 1 in 3) to provide cover for the relief of pain and suffering in animals and to receive and treat emergency cases.
· To perform administrative tasks as required by the hospital director or CEO.
· To undertake any reasonable requests made by the service clinical leads.
· To contribute to the delivery of continuing professional development (CPD) through the Langford Academy when requested.
Person Specification
Person Specification
The skills, abilities, experience and knowledge outlined below provide a summary of what is required to carry out this job effectively.
Essential |
Desirable |
More than 2 years working as vaterinary surgeon |
Worked in a teaching hospital |
Completion of a recognised internship |
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MRCVS |
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Excellent client communication |
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Good team player |
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Good organisational and prioritisation skills |
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Eligible to work in UK |