Position: Residency in Small Animal Surgery starting in early 2024.

Our established specialist surgery service has a 3-year residency position available in Small Animal Surgery starting in early 2024. Successful completion of the residency program will enable credential submission for FANZCVS specialist examinations in Small Animal Surgery.

Advanced Vetcare is a growing, independently-owned referral centre.  We believe in a collaborative team approach to patient care, and that the best patient outcomes come from the involvement of more than one specialist or department.  This is an exciting opportunity to train in a clinical setting with 5 registered surgery specialists, 1 surgery registrar, 3 surgery residents and 3 surgery interns in a multi-disciplinary specialist veterinary hospital.

Our hospitals are well-equipped with a 64-slice CT Siemens go-Up (3 machines) and Fuji DR  in each location, as well as two new flat panel Siemens Cios Select fluoroscopy set up for interventional radiology. Our theatres have everything you would expect from a specialist hospital, including an extensive range of Synthes and Biomedtrix orthopaedic and spinal kits, Stryker arthroscopy towers, Ligasure electrosurgery units, as well as running a busy Biomedtrix hip replacement program. The surgery department work collaboratively with our specialist medicine and oncology clinicians, as well as our 24-hour emergency and critical care department.

We are located in three diverse areas around Melbourne. Geelong is a beautiful coastal city on the doorstep of the world-famous Bells Beach and Great Ocean Road.  Kew is within the leafy, established inner eastern suburbs with excellent local schools and easy access to the city and surrounding lifestyle suburbs. Kensington is centrally located in the inner west, with easy access to excellent public transport and the vibrancy of being located so close to the centre of Melbourne.

Remuneration will be generous and negotiable on experience.

Benefits of doing your residency at Advanced Vetcare:

• Competitive residency annual salary starting at $90,000 and increasing each year
• Inclusion in our generous out-of-hours bonus once you contribute to our on-call rotation. Currently, this begins after one year of residency and is approximately once every 7 weeks.
• 4 weeks annual leave, 1-week conference leave, annual study stipend, all training in related disciplines and externship is fully paid as normal hours, 4 day week in the second half of your residency and all expenses of your original research is paid by the practice. Overall, this gives 13.8 weeks per year for leave and study.
• We pay all your ANZCVS Fellowship examination fees.
• Access to a supportive and collaborative team of specialists and veterinarians
• State-of-the-art facilities and equipment
• Weekly journal club, clinic grand rounds and exam preparation assistance
• Your supervisors are regular contributors to the FANZCVS examination committee in Small Animal Surgery
• A workplace that values work-life balance and a positive team culture
• Our clinic is 100% owned and operated by veterinarians working in clinical roles in the practice
• External mental health and wellbeing support for all staff via Uprise

We would love to hear from you if you are interested in doing your small animal surgical residency in our specialist veterinary practice in Melbourne.  Please feel free to contact me via email or phone for further information.  Applications will remain open until a suitable applicant accepts the position. Please provide a cover letter, your CV and the names of at least two referees. One of your referees should be from the practice principal/clinical supervisor from the clinic that you have spent the most amount of time in since graduation.

Contact:

Sam Snelling

Advanced Vetcare

26 Robertson Street Kensington 3031

T:+61 3 9092 0400

www.advancedvetcare.com.au

careers@advancedvetcare.com.au