Full-Time Vet
- Organisation:
- Warner Vet
- Location:
- Cashmere, Brisbane
- Occupation:
- Veterinarian - Small Animal
- Employment Type:
- Full Time
- Posted:
You work hard, but you want a balance to achieve your active lifestyle. Maybe you are simply over the cold southern winters, or you can’t bear the thought of another summer of intense humidity in the far north. Perhaps you’re moving to Brisbane for family, or simply looking for a change, Warner Vet Hospital in Cashmere, Brisbane, can help. We are looking for a 5th Vet to join our 4-vet team of over 45 years combined experience.
Our hospital was purpose built 10 years ago in Cashmere on Brisbane's northside, and we have been serving Moreton Bay and Brisbane’s northern suburbs for 23 years. Warner Vet Hospital Cashmere enjoys the support and opportunities afforded as part of CVS Australia Group of 30 practices, all with a similar focus on, and dedication to, customer service and patient care. We are progressive, self-managed and individually branded, and have generous staff benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as well as discounted Private Health Insurance, Gym Membership and Pet Food.
We are looking for a dedicated, experienced, passionate vet, with exceptional communication skills, a friendly positive attitude and a sense of humour to work full-time. Our hospital is fully computerised and equipped with all the mod cons including ultrasound machine, digital x-rays and digital dental x-rays, in-house blood machine, ECG, etc. Salary negotiable between $100,000 to $140,000 depending on experience.
Check us out at www.warnervet.com.au 
Please fill in this questionnaire and see what sort of job you’re after:
Your ideal job location
A. Cold, wet and rainy most of the year
B. Over-crowded suburban nightmare
C. Rural out back town with hardly anything going for it but a pub
D. Idyllic tropical weather year-round, surrounded by lush clean bush and local national parks and short drive to the sunshine and gold coasts.
Your ideal boss
A. Loves to leave you to it while vacationing the world
B. Gives you unachievable targets
C. Grumpy and bitter about their career choice
D. Highly accountable and proactive in personal development and leadership, challenging you to stretch your capacities to grow and learn.
Your ideal pay
A. Pay? I just love animals who needs pay?
B. I really should have become a lawyer or doctor
C. I love working my butt off for chump change
D. I love being rewarded for my hard efforts, my pay is based on my productivity, enough so that money is not an issue and I can get on and enjoy my work.
Your ideal team
A. Nurses that gossip about you behind your back
B. A team that leaves you to it to grind by yourself
C. A busy industrious hive with no time for chit chat or fun
D. A team of highly skilled professionals that live to make your job even easier, are supportive, have open communication, accountability and are loyal and I mean LOYAL.
Your ideal educational program
A. Continuing education? Meh I had enough at Uni!
B. Forget that! I’m a genius and know all there is to know about being a vet
C. Conferences, I’ll never get the time
D. I love travelling the world and learning all over Australia, I love my own personal development journey and the support to follow it.
Your ideal hospital
A. Using a cat litter tray for x-ray film processing in a concrete basement
B. Doing surgery in a converted laundry
C. Working in a converted wood house
D. Purpose fit out, with lots of shiny toys for diagnostic pleasure, digital x-rays, Nikki pumps, in-house idexx machines, etc
A quick vet skills test…
Dog walks in with smelly breath for routine vaccination
A. Vaccinate it and get it out. There’s someone waiting
B. Vaccinate and tell owners to watch the teeth, they’ll be ok for another year
C. Vaccinate it and send owners off with a toothbrush
D. Complete health check plus book in a dental examination and prophy under anaesthetic.
Dog had a fall at the dog park and is lame
A. Metacam shot – she’ll be right!
B. Quick examination and metacam injection and some take home NSAIDS
C. Complete musculoskeletal examination and NSAIDs course
D. Full health check and lameness work-up, progressing to digital radiographs under sedation, leading to corrective surgery if needed.
Dog walks in with smelly ears for routine vaccination
A. Vaccinate it and get it out. I need to go to the toilet
B. Vaccinate and tell owners to watch ears
C. Vaccinate it and send owners off with ear cleaner
D. Complete health check plus ear cytology and make plan from there.
Lump found in clinical examination
A. Probably a Lipoma, no need to unnecessarily concern the owner
B. Advise owner it has a lump
C. Advise owner it has a lump, that it feels like an OK one so just monitor it
D. Aspirate in consult and get a diagnosis of the lump.
Puppy health check – 3 mths
A. C5 and boom – outta my room
B. C5 and worming
C. C5 and SR12
D. Cover basic health (C5, SR12, worming, fleas and ticks) discuss the importance of pet insurance and spend the rest of your 30-minute consult educating the owner about how to get the best out of their dog for the next 15 years. Hey presto, use our lovely nurses to conduct a fully puppy talk – winner, winner chicken dinner.
Bonus questions (4 points)
I love being active, living in a community with lots of schools, transport and parks and enjoy what outdoor lifestyle has to offer.
See how you rank:
A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4
o 11-22 points Why did you get a vet degree? Maybe move to law
o 22-33 points Probably heading for a job in another industry
o 33-40 points This job may not be for you
o 40-48 points YOU ARE A LEGEND !! – immediately send your resume and cover letter to warnervet@gmail.com
