Overview
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
* 5 weeks holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
* Additional holiday entitlement for Long Service
* 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)
* SimplyHealth Cashplan membership
* Free annual flu vaccination
* Free Specsavers eye test voucher
* 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
Job Purpose and Principal Accountabilities
* 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.
* 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.
Qualifications
* 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
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