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As a Junior Clinician, you will work as part of our Behaviour department, gaining hands-on experience in all aspects of behavioural medicine. You’ll be joining a dynamic and supportive multi-disciplinary team in our busy Small Animal Referral Hospital and contributing to the expansion of behaviour services. Our behaviour team currently consists of a staff clinician in Veterinary Behaviour and a Behaviour Nurse. This is a unique opportunity for a candidate interested in starting or advancing a career in veterinary behaviour and is ideal for a Veterinary Surgeon with at least 2 years of post-graduation clinical experience, who has developed a range of skills in clinical animal behaviour.

What You'll Do:

Work as part of the behaviour department, assisting with initial consultations and follow-up care, contributing to client support and the prescribing of psychoactive medications as appropriate.
Provide excellent written communication and reports to referring veterinarians and clients.
Receive mentorship from our experienced veterinary behaviourist and behaviour nurse, as well as the clinicians, nurses and physiotherapists in the wider hospital team.
Provide continuous veterinary cover for behaviour patients during periods of colleague absence.
Participate in regular rounds and case discussions between the behaviour and chronic pain rehabilitation teams.
Contribute to clinical teaching of veterinary nurse students.

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 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
- 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.

Langford Vets is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

For informal enquiries, feel free to contact Gwen Covey-Crump on Gwen.Covey-Crump@bristol.ac.uk or Emma James on behaviour@langfordvets.co.uk

Closing date: Friday 20th March

Interviews: Tuesday 24th March

Responsibilities

Job purpose

Reports To: Rehabilitation Clinical Lead

Job Purpose

To support the behaviour team to develop behaviour medicine services 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 and efficiently.
To contribute to clinical teaching of undergraduate students.

Principal Accountabilities:

To provide behaviour medicine 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 support growth of the service through involvement in marketing initiatives undertaken by Langford Vets.
To undertake relevant training as requested in order to expand services offered within Langford Vets.
To perform diagnoses, treatments and behaviour training of patients to the standards expected by the RCVS for a referral teaching hospital.
To record all case records accurately.
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 in patients as necessary to provide anxiolysis and behaviour management advice, record treatment 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 Veterinary and Veterinary Nursing students assigned to you on their clinical rotations and on EMS 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 consultations and procedures.
Responsible for keeping themselves and others safe, reporting accidents, near misses and hazards and adhering to health and safety requirements and policies as required by the business/their line manager.
Proactively identify and act upon opportunities for business improvement. Openly identify and discuss problems in order to implement and sustain improvements that increase the value we deliver to our, clients, employees, and students.
To perform administrative tasks as are required by the hospital manager and the CEO.
To undertake any reasonable requests made by the service clinical leads.

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
MRCVS	Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist
Excellent client communication	MSc Clinical Animal Behaviour
Good team player
Good organisational and prioritisation skills
Eligible to work in UK