Tired of cranky clients who have a hair trigger on that 1 star review?

Want to work in a community that is accepting, welcoming, and cheers on the clinic when they reduce their on call hours?

We’re not joking, this place does exist, and it’s not in a Hallmark movie! 

Want to work in a community that is accepting, welcoming, and cheers on the clinic when they reduce their on call hours?

Watch back our Interview the Boss with Dr. Dana Ness to learn more about this clinic in the Pacific Northwest with a culture and community worth moving for.

Fair Isle Animal Clinic has two fabulous associates who are expecting at the same time, so your opportunity to move to and experience an independently owned practice that could be in a holiday movie is here!

You may already be familiar with the impact of the Harper & Keele Vet School – a new school, new team and innovation in the teaching and curriculum. With a focus on primary care, a distributed teaching model and one of the most historical Agricultural Universities in the UK at their heart, it’s a great opportunity to make an impact through Farm Animal Teaching.

Adrian was joined by Deputy Head of School Philip Robinson and Preceptor Zoe Shepherd and explored the opportunity to join the team as a Lecturer in Production Animal Practice.

They talked about:

• How an experienced farm GP vet with great knowledge transfer skills could join the team and gain a formal teaching qualification
• What it means to have an integrated Production Animal, Public Health and Pathology approach
• The opportunity to be in at the early phase of growth at a new vet school and be part of that future
• The benefits that go with a university lecturer post

Making the transition to a veterinary job with pharmaceutical, nutrition, suppliers or services companies to the profession is a common move for people looking to spread their wings beyond clinical practice.

Adrian was joined by Rachel Bell and Jo Brett from Summit Veterinary Pharmaceuticals who spoke about what this journey can look like, the ups and downs of industry work, and how best to make the transition.

Rachel is a vet whose injury changed her perspective on clinical work and Jo is an RVN who needed a change after burning out through the covid years. Their journeys are quite different, but the story holds true – industry careers take your clinical skills and then turbocharge them with other skill sets. They can be challenging and stressful like any job, but the rewards are quite different, and new career paths often emerge within the company.

Getting a job in APHA or the civil service is one of our most requested career transitions.

We were joined by Liz Nabb a VIO, Katherine Lumb, an SVI and Sion Rowlands Veterinary Head of Careers and Education.

Find out about Liz’s story from farm vet, via PhD to VIO. This is a squiggly career for sure and Sion has many a tall tale to tell in his APHA work (plus a new book out soon too!).

Listen in to get all your pressing questions answered:

• What makes a great civil service vet?
• What is a day in the ‘life of’ like for field and lab-based vets in these roles?
• How you can grow your career clinically within the service – with almost limitless learning opportunities?
• What a longer career could look like within Government Veterinary Services?

Keep an eye out for the new APHA jobs launching soon at https://www.vsgd.cojob-opportunities/search-for-jobs/

Veterinary surgical oncologist, comedian, dog owner, author, writer and so much more! The incomparable Dr. Sarah Boston joined us for a Career Q and A and talked us through her career, getting into comedy, podcasting, speaking, and so much more!

Join Heather Bacon, the Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Central Lancashire as we talk about four lectureships they’re recruiting for. Heather brings Dey Tarusikirwa – a Veterinary lecturer and Heather Cameron-Whytock – Senior Lecturer as well, creating an ideal opportunity to learn about their new school.

UCLan is super busy right now with the first cohort of vetmed, foundational degree and biovet starting this September! That’s about 160 fresh faces embarking on their veterinary career at one of the UKs newest vet schools.

So what might being a lecturer at UCLan, a civic university, be different from one of the legacy schools? We talk about

• What being a Civic University means for the widening participation agenda, equality, diversity and inclusion.
• How they’re setting up to ensure employability is a key outcome, producing the graduates the profession really needs.
• What the school trajectory is and how those 4 lectureships fit in the big picture, what the University is like as an employer and the kind of team Heather is building
• We explore the jobs themselves, lectureships in Veterinary Structure and Function, Farm Animal Management and Biosciences, Human-Animal Environmental Interactions (One Health and Ethics) and Veterinary Primary Care Education and Leadership

See the job links below.