Interested in this role?
Langford Vets is excited to offer a Junior Clinician position in Small Animal Surgery at our Small Animal Referral Hospital.
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, including 8 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
• 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.
Benefits and wellbeing
Our people are at the heart of what we do and as your employer we want to ensure we offer flexibility, support and staff development, where possible, through:
Time off
- 6.6 weeks holiday per year, inclusive of bank holidays
- Additional holiday entitlement for Long Service
Wellbeing
- On site Mental Wellbeing Champions
- EDI committee
- Employee Forum – to ensure all employees voices can be heard
- Menopause Café
- Wellbeing talks and events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity and paternity pay (after 2 years’ service)
Health
- Bupa Cashplan
- Free annual flu vaccination
- Free Specsavers eye test voucher
General
- Free onsite parking
- U2 bus service link to Bristol
- Annual CPD allowance
- Employee discount
- Generous pension scheme – we match up to 8% pension contributions
- Reimbursement of one professional membership fee per year
How to apply:
If this role sounds like the right fit for you, don’t delay, click ‘Apply’ and begin your career with Langford Vets.
Key Dates:
• Application Deadline: Monday 30th November 2026
• Interviews: Tuesday 12th January 2027
• Start Date: July 2027
For informal enquiries, feel free to contact Lee Meakin at Lee.Meakin@bristol.ac.uk.
Job Description
Responsibilities
Job purpose
Job Title: Junior Clinician in Small Animal Surgery
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 veterinary 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 |