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

As a resident, you will work as part of the Anaesthesia department, gaining hands-on experience and training in all aspects of anaesthesia care. You’ll be joining a dynamic and supportive team of experts, including six Senior Anaesthetists, three other residents, five anaesthesia nurses and a broad range of other specialists across our hospital. You will be based primarily in the Small Animal Referral Hospital with some time spent in the Translational Biomedical Research Centre, Large Animal Practice, and Bristol Zoo. Visits and externships to equine hospitals with whom we have reciprocal agreements are scheduled to meet the requirements of the ECVAA training programme.

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 a Veterinary Surgeon wanting to pursue a specialist career, who has spent a minimum of 2 years in practice including a rotating internship. The position is tenable for 36 months

Key Dates:

Application Deadline: Wednesday 17th of December 2025
Interviews: Wednesday 17th of January 2025
Start Dates: Monday 2nd of March 2026

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 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
- 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.

Closing date: 17th December 2025

Interview date: 17th January 2025

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