About the role

Langford Vets is excited to offer a Junior Clinician position in Anaesthesia at our state-of-the-art Small Animal Referral Hospital.

As a Junior Clinician, you will work as part of the Anaesthesia department, 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 six Senior Anaesthetists, three residents, five anaesthesia nurses and a broad range of other specialists across our hospital.

What You'll Do:

Work as part of the anaesthesia department, anaesthetising individual cases and contributing to peri-anaesthetic and critical care of inpatients.
Receive structured training and mentorship from experienced specialists
Participate in the emergency anaesthesia out-of-hours rota (currently 1 in 4)
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

5 weeks holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
Additional holiday entitlement for Long Service

Wellbeing

On site Mental Health 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

SimplyHealth Cashplan membership
Free annual flu vaccination
Free Specsavers eye test voucher

General

Free onsite parking
U2 bus service link to Bristol
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: Saturday 1^st November 2025
Interviews: Wednesday 12^th November 2025
Start date: Monday 2^nd March 2026

For informal enquiries, feel free to contact Paul MacFarlane at pd.macfarlane@bristol.ac.uk or Gwen Covey-Crump at Gwen.Covey-Crump@bristol.ac.uk.

Responsibilities

Job purpose

Job Title: Junior Clinician in Anaesthesia

Reports To: Anaesthesia Clinical Lead

Job Purpose

To support the anaesthesia caseload within the Small Animal Referral Hospital.
To provide excellent care for patients.
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 as and if required.

Principal Accountabilities:

To provide anaesthesia services for the Small Animal Referral Hospital, ensuring all cases are handled efficiently and with excellent clinical care.
To work with multidisciplinary teams to provide excellent care for all patients.
To ensure the continuing growth of the referral caseload by facilitating case management in the hospital.
To perform anaesthesia and related procedures to the standards expected by the RCVS for a referral teaching hospital.
To ensure all case records are accurate.
To assess and examine patients prior to anaesthesia and update clinicians of any significant changes.
During care of anaesthesia cases to keep supervising clinicians informed of significant changes in the cases status.
To follow all Langford Vets protocols and policies.
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 the correct pricing and charging of all procedures.
To participate in an out of hours rota no more than 1:4, to provide anaesthesia and critical care support to the Small Animal Hospital out of hours and at weekends.
To perform administrative tasks as required by the hospital director or CEO.
To undertake any reasonable requests made by the service clinical lead.
To contribute to the delivery of continuing professional development (CPD) through the Langford Academy when requested.

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 a veterinary surgeon	Worked in a teaching hospital
Completion of a recognised internship
MRCVS
Excellent client communication
Good team player
Good organisational and prioritisation skills
Eligible to work in UK