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This Week | A heads up for recent Grads about potential speed bumps that you will come across in your first year and recommendations from our Community on how to overcome them. We also explore “Appi-ness” for locum relief veterinary professionals with some indispensable Apps to help you stay organized and effective. Plus, more veterinary news, trends, and views from around the world curated by our team and our AI-assisted job suggestions from across the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the UK, and Europe…

🩺 Job Of The Week

Bakersfield, CA, USA - Are you interested in joining the experienced team of a locally owned, private emergency veterinary hospital? We provide quality urgent and emergent medicine and surgery by practicing our core values every day - high standards, patient advocacy, exceptional service, mutual regard, creativity, and sound fiscal management. Come by and meet our team. We would love to visit with you to explore this opportunity.

📰 Your Hand-picked Veterinary News

🎓 New Grads: how to overcome the early jitters

Congratulations! You have made it through the rigorous curriculum, clinical rotations, and countless hours of studying to earn your veterinary degree. As you embark on this exciting journey, it is essential to recognize that there will be speed bumps in your first years of practice. Facing these hurdles head-on with a positive mindset and determination will help you build a successful career in the veterinary field. We asked recent graduate vets, nurses, and techs to share their first-year-out challenges and their suggestions to overcome them. Prepare for your own journey and equip yourself with answers so you can thrive as a new veterinary professional…

😄 The Pursuit of Appiness: 6 Must-Have Apps for Locum Relief Success

You know how the team in 'Mission Impossible' always has a tech genius to help them navigate through challenges, while Iron Man has Jarvis managing his affairs? As a sought-after locum relief veterinary professional, having a bit of digital backup can significantly boost your superhero-like capabilities in the medical arena. While a personal AI assistant may not be in the cards just yet, these six indispensable apps can provide the support you need to stay organized, serene, and effective both during your shifts and in your personal time...

📈 Veterinarian Staffing: Running an Efficient Office

One of the greatest challenges we are currently facing in veterinary medicine is staffing. It is a challenge that is seemingly getting more critical with each passing day, with some 30% of vets saying they feel overworked, burned out, and wishing they could work fewer hours. To help you avoid this unfortunate condition in your practice, keep reading for 3 expert ideas on handling veterinary staffing issues to add efficiency to your office…

🏥 3 things millennials want as employees in a veterinary hospital

Compared to past generations, millennials prioritize work/life balance, continued growth opportunities, and passion for their profession when they’re looking for new opportunities. Understanding millennial values can help you create a positive work environment in your veterinary practice that will keep your staff happy for years to come. Acknowledging how much millennials value work/life balance, opportunities to grow, passion for what they do, and a team environment can help your practice build a healthy culture that allows every employee to thrive.

🩺Featured Jobs USA + Canada

Dallas-Forth Worth, TX, USA - In-Sync Exotics in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area is looking for a full-time Veterinarian with zoological experience. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing neglected, abused, and unwanted exotic felines, including lions, tigers, cougars, leopards, and more. Join our warm, welcoming, talented, and highly collaborative team, advance your veterinary career, and refine your skills with us.

Associate Veterinarian

Fair Lawn, NJ, USA - Valley Brook Veterinary Hospital is a fully equipped, privately owned small animal practice looking for a part-time or full-time veterinarian to join our work family. We pride ourselves in providing high-quality medical care while also being flexible with scheduling and ensuring a good work/life balance for all of our team. Let your passion for pets, their families, and best-practice veterinary care shine every day.

Veterinarian

Stamford, CT, USA - Join our leading practice, where our legacy of excellence has been created through over 40 years of family ownership, a team of passionate and talented veterinary professionals, and our commitment to best-practice veterinary care. Thrive in a role where your expertise is truly valued, knowing that you will be well-supported, respected in the community, and enjoy genuine work-life balance in an ideal lifestyle location.

Board Certified Veterinary Surgeon

New York City, New York, USA - Working with us, you will have the opportunity to help animals in a way that drew you to the veterinary field in the first place. Given the expanse and nature of our work, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of cases in a high-paced, exciting and professional environment. The variety and volume of our patient caseload offers you the opportunity to work in a medically progressive veterinary practice.

Veterinarian

Fresno, CA, USA - Be part of the City of Fresno’s new Animal Center Department! As our Veterinarian, you will be part of the collective and strategic planning in staffing our new state-of-the-art clinic and developing the clinical program, while embodying the goals, innovation, and animal care compassion that the City Manager envisions for the veterinary program and the community. Join us for this next step in our exciting journey.

Small Animal Veterinarian

Bedford, PA, USA - Join our established practice that has been a cornerstone in our community for over fifty years, delivering exceptional veterinary care. Engage with our team of passionate and skilled veterinary professionals armed with the resources to provide quality medicine and surgery. Enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance in a location and community that offers an ideal lifestyle, making every day rewarding both personally and professionally.

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🩺Featured Jobs Australia + NZ + ASIA

Byron Bay NSW Australia - Fed up with GP work or an Emergency Veterinarian tired of city life and looking for a change? If you're a night owl with some experience, we can help you obtain that elusive work-life balance by offering the opportunity to work night shifts with a great team in an outstandingly beautiful Byron Bay area - work fewer shifts for better pay, allowing you more free time to do all the things you love outside of work.

Facility Veterinarian ACDP

Geelong VIC Australia - Join us as we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. As a Facility Veterinarian at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP), you will provide a high level of professional veterinary expertise in support of research projects across three animal facilities. Working with a team of animal technicians and support staff, you will provide animal husbandry and care.

Referral Surgery Nurse

Mornington VIC Australia - Are you a referral surgery nurse ready for a change? When you join Peninsula Vet, you will experience our difference as soon as you walk through our doors. We pride ourselves on providing our people with flexible employment options with full-time, part-time, and casual positions, generous pay and working conditions, including paid parental leave, and a positive, stimulating culture of learning.

Veterinarian

Cairns QLD Australia - Fun, friendly environment! We aim to attract the type of clients we enjoy working with. We have a pumping veterinary clinic, experiencing continual growth each year. Our staff are a supportive and collaborative team who are motivated to service our clients and offer the highest standard of veterinary medical care and customer service. Work-life balance is important, we offer a flexible roster and great remuneration!

Veterinarian

Port Macquarie NSW Australia - Come live and work in the best part of Australia for a practice that cares for our staff equally as well as our clients. We are a progressive, busy practice that is fully equipped to work to the highest level but still focuses on staff health as our priority. We aim for a quality of life enjoyed by our team so that we can offer great veterinary care service to our clients and patients, and all in an ideal lifestyle environment.

Small Animal Veterinarian

Horsham VIC Australia - You see job ads for Vets a million times a day. I won’t lie to you, this is another one, but I promise you this one is worth paying attention to 😉 - I urge you to call for a chat about why we are the team you want to join! Plus, we offer all the things that you are seeking: one-hour lunch breaks, flexible hours to allow for family and work-life balance, optional OOH on-call, modern equipment, the ability to pursue further education, and much more.

🩺Featured Jobs UK + Europe

Greater Manchester UK - We currently have an exciting position open and are looking to hire a small animal Veterinary Surgeon. Here at Luc Van Dijck's, trust and communication are at the heart of our team, and you will experience genuine clinical freedom in a highly collaborative environment. Enjoy full case responsibility with expert guidance to ensure continuity of care and the opportunity to build on an already established client base.

Small Animal Veterinarian

Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam - Looking for a new career experience? Animal Doctors International is looking for enthusiastic and adventurous Veterinarians! We are looking for a dynamic veterinarian to join our growing international team here in Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam. We are a 100% companion animal veterinary practice seeing small animals from all over the world. Be a part of our vision and help build the future of veterinary services!

Veterinary Surgeon

Kent UK - We are looking for an experienced part-time or full-time Veterinary Surgeon to join our team. If you have a passion for clients and animals and for delivering compassionate customer care, then come join our friendly family. An interest in laparoscopy and minimally invasive surgery is encouraged but not essential. This is an ideal opportunity to provide best-practice clinical veterinary care in a highly collaborative team environment.

Veterinary Surgeon

Greater London UK - We are looking for two confident vets who want to experience some well-managed sole charge time in a branch, but also have the support of a senior vet each week, in this hybrid role between our practices in Harrow and Wembley. You have exceptional organisational, communication and customer service skills, and a commitment to gold standards of care. Join us in delivering professional and dedicated care to our patients and owners.

Veterinary Surgeon

Greater London UK - Grow your veterinary career with collaboration, education and mentoring. We are a friendly, well-established practice in North London. We have a long history of providing exceptional patient/client care to our local community, and we are seeking an experienced Veterinary Surgeon to join us in our journey. We are a three-vet practice supported by a qualified nurse, two patient care assistants and a dedicated reception team.

Veterinary Surgeon

Greater London UK - We are a small animal practice based in the leafy suburb of Wimbledon and are looking for two enthusiastic and professional Veterinary Surgeons to join our team! Enjoy the opportunity to work with a practice owner who has clinical freedom and the autonomy to do things his or her own way. A practice where you can thrive and continue to develop your career and let your passion for pets and best practice veterinary care shine.

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AVAILABLE :: Locum Relief GP Veterinarian

PHOENIX - ARIZONA - USA :: With 9 years of DVM experience in General Medicine and soft tissue surgery, I am excited to meet your team and care for your patients and clients! Having been a medical director of a 3 DVM practice, I am cognizant of navigating client and team relationships and can quickly adapt to new clinics. To expedite medical records, travel with my own templates as needed. I am privately incorporated and insured, meaning no management fees are added to your invoice.

AVAILABLE :: Locum Relief Veterinary Surgeon - GP

EDINBURGH - SCOTLAND - UK :: Hello, my name is Hannah, and I am a mixed vet looking for locum work. I qualified 3 years ago and have since been working in busy small animal and mixed practice. I am happy with consults, routine surgery, and most emergencies, and have experience working in sole charge. I particularly enjoy small animal medicine and working with exotic species, and will be starting a certificate next year.

AVAILABLE :: Locum Relief GP Veterinarian

MELBOURNE - VICTORIA - AUSTRALIA :: My name is Aaron, and I am a vet currently working at Sandringham Veterinary Hospital. I have been there for almost 5 years now, but recently made the decision to branch out and work as a locum, from November onwards. I plan on getting some locum experience locally before heading overseas to Singapore/London in 2025.

NEEDED :: Locum Relief GP Veterinarian

MELBOURNE - VICTORIA - AUSTRALIA :: We are a bunch of ordinary vets treading on territory where few have been before and are achieving the extraordinary. We have just opened our new, purpose-built clinic which includes a full rehab centre with a pool and underwater treadmill, Cat only consult rooms and high and low-care cat hospital wards, dental -, general and ultra-sterile theatres, CT and X-ray rooms, Lagsure and CO2 scalpel and many more.

NEEDED :: Locum Relief Veterinarian GP

COLUMBUS - MISSISSIPPI - USA :: Seeking Locum Relief for our friendly, compassionate practice. Our mission is to provide high-quality veterinary medicine and surgery to our patients and friendly service to our clients. We believe that preventative care and regular check-ups are the key to ensuring optimal health for your four-legged companions. Our staff possesses a great affection for animals and is dedicated to offering superior service in an enjoyable atmosphere. We genuinely value the contribution that relief professionals bring to our team and patients and offer you every support we can.

NEEDED :: Locum Relief GP Veterinary Surgeon

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE - UK :: We are a small, 2 branch independent practice with practices in Heaton and Tynemouth. We have a team of 2 vets (plus a third who is on maternity leave), 2 RVNs, 2 SVNs and a VCA, along with 3 receptionists and a practice manager. We see a varied first opinion caseload, with our main Heaton branch carrying out the majority of surgeries and work ups. Our team is supportive and friendly, and understands the importance of a good sense of humour to get through the tougher days in practice!

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