About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting, real-world impact.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• Unparalleled opportunities to learn and enhance your skills and experience in a unique teaching and research environment.
• Be part of developing the next generation of veterinarians.
• 26 weeks of full pay for parental leave or 14 weeks of full pay for primary caregiver leave
• 17% superannuation contributions and 17.5% annual leave loading
• Free parking
• Discounted veterinary services
• Generous relocation allowance and access to research and publication support.
• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight
• A range of salary packaging options available including superannuation, portable electronic devices, professional association membership fees or subscriptions, bus travel, airport lounge membership etc.

 

About This Opportunity 

A career at UQ VETS is an opportunity to pursue a different professional pathway that allows you to utilise your clinical skills, improve your work-life balance, and discover meaning through academic opportunities.

We are seeking a collaborative and reliable individual who is passionate about caring for animals to join to Equine Specialist Hospital. As a Veterinary Nurse, you will support a large team of staff, students and veterinary specialists as well as assist with clinical teaching.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Assess, monitor, treat and maintain excellent husbandry standards for patients in ICU, isolation and hospital stalls
• Practice correct care, cleaning and maintenance of technical and specialised instrumentation and equipment
• Assist with radiography, Computer Tomography, Scintigraphy and M.R.I. procedures when required
• Perform diagnostic clinical pathology techniques relevant to the role
• Supervise and teach technical skills to veterinary and veterinary technology students.
• Assist with management of pharmacy inventory, including stock levels, prices and stock take, using the practice management software

Take a virtual tour of our Equine Specialist Hospital here.

This is a full-time, fixed-term position for up through to the end of July 2024.

At HEW level 4, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $68,735.35 – $72,968.15, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $80,420.36 – $85,372.74 annually.

 

About You  

• Bachelor of Veterinary Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (Veterinary Technology), Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing or equivalent, together with nursing experience. Or equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Proven experience working reliably as part of a team staffing a roster to provide equine specialist hospital services 7 days per week
• High level organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work flexibly with the use of initiative and autonomy.
• Good written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to use these skills in managing professional & operational relationships with colleagues, clients and students.
• Knowledge of ethical requirements, relevant policies and procedures, including workplace health and safety, employment equity and anti-discrimination.
• An effective team player who maintains effective working relationships in a team.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development and excellence in the field of veterinary nursing.
• Interest in the clinical teaching of veterinary and veterinary technology professionals in training.
• Willingness to participate in other professional service activities e.g. VNCA, community organisations, RSPCA, PetPEP (AVA).
• Possess or be able to apply for a radiation license.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.
• Mandatory Immunisations: It is a condition of employment for this role that you will be required to provide evidence of immunisation against certain vaccine preventable diseases.

 

Questions? 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Melissa Lindert at m.lindert@uq.edu.au. For application queries, please contact recruitment@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.

 

Want to Apply?

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section
• Resume

Please note that you will be asked to add all documents into the one upload box labelled ‘resume’, which is step one of the application form.

 

Other Information

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion.  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our broader community, whether that be gender identity, LGBTQIA+, cultural and/or linguistic, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, or people with a disability. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to recruitment@uq.edu.au.

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

 

Applications close 2 May 2023 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-24946).

 

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