Mixed & Small Animal Vacancies - Vet
- Organisation:
- Lachlan Valley Vets
- Location:
- Forbes, NSW Other
- Occupation:
- Veterinarian - Mixed Animal
- Employment Type:
- Full Time
- Posted:
Are you looking for a change in scenery? Is city life getting too busy? Do you want to raise a family in a friendly, opportunity-filled country town environment? Come and explore the relaxed and welcoming town of Forbes, NSW on the Lachlan River!
About us:
Lachlan Valley Vets is a true mixed practice looking to expand our veterinary team and fill the position of one of our vets who is retiring gallantly after 25+ years of owning and practicing at the clinic. We are looking to fill two positions for a mixed practice clinician and a small animal clinician. If you want the country lifestyle coupled with small or mixed animal veterinary work, Lachlan Valley Vets is for you.
This is a new graduate friendly practice, and we pride ourselves on mentoring new grads properly. Work life balance is important to our team and mental health is a priority.
We will cater to any interest as this is a genuine mixed practice. Services offered include equine reproduction, cattle, sheep and goat herd health, plus international export of livestock from 5 different facilities, as well as a broad array of small animal medicine and surgical cases, including but not limited to reptiles, birds and native wildlife. We are also involved in community desexing programs with the RSPCA.
We are continually updating our facilities and are well equipped with digital radiology, in-house blood machines, large and small animal ultrasounds, Reproscan®, equine endoscope and an equine power float. There is the opportunity to work up difficult medical and surgical cases in-house however we can refer to specialty hospitals in Wagga Wagga, Canberra and Sydney.
We have a purpose-built branch clinic in Grenfell, NSW which is open Tuesday each week.
We have incredible support staff with a wide variety of experience and skills. Our nurses are well trained, supportive and are capable of working in teams and independently.
We are a locally owned family business, so if you are looking for support and encouragement from the ground level where you will be working side-by-side with the owners, this job is for you. Our team is like a family, with your work/life balance and mental health a high priority. If you have a family, we understand (and also survive) the chaos that goes along with parenting and are flexible with school pickups and sick children. We want to keep vets in the industry and that means a work/life balance that is flexible and supportive.
We have a coffee van that religiously pulls up at the clinic weekday mornings. Don’t worry if you don’t have a chance to get a caffeine hit before you come to work because it will be delivered with a smile! We also like to try and engage in a communal lunch on Thursdays with an order from the local bakery or pub. This gives us the chance for all staff to catch up, debrief and socialise.
Our team values good communication, often working up cases together. This is helped by our office being laid out so all vets can discuss cases, look at radiographs and easily converse with each other.
About the position:
4 day working week with a dedicated day off. For special occasions it can be arranged to occur on a Friday for a long weekend.
On call load is light and will be shared as 1 in 3 or 1 in 4.
Veterinary products are charged at cost price (plus GST) for your pets. We understand that your pets are part of the family so we look after them as well.
Salary above award wage
+ super
+ on call fee
+ after hours fees (50% of professional fees)
+ continuing education allowance
+ veterinary products for personal pets
Reviews will occur at 3, 6 and 12 months so you can tell us how we are going and provide us with feedback so we can help with any areas of improvement.
About you:
We love our job and while some days can be overwhelming, coming to work should be overall an enjoyable experience. We want our new team members to feel comfortable and fit in well with our clinic family. Our ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, reliable and friendly and happy to communicate.
We have two positions available at the moment. If you are happy to work with all species, that’s excellent, but we are also looking for a small animal vet so if you don’t like sheep, goats, cows and horses you can stay in the clinic with the smallies. If you don’t have confidence with livestock but would like to build up that confidence, this is the job for you.
About Forbes:
1.5 hours from Orange, 2.5 hours from Wagga Wagga, 3 hours from Canberra and 5 hours from Sydney. It is only a 30-minute drive to the local airport with flights to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and large regional airports going twice daily.
We have a rich sports community with thoroughbred and standardbred racing, rugby union, rugby league, netball, cricket, touch, swimming, ranch sorting amongst countless others. For the water skiing enthusiasts we have a ski dam locally as well other ski locations within an easy 2 hour drive, and there’s plenty of stocked dams and rivers for the keen fisherman within close surrounds. We also have a 24-hour Anytime Fitness gym.
Forbes also boasts very picturesque and well-utilised walking/running paths around Lake Forbes. The Lake is lit by 2.7km of solar lights and is the ideal location to take a relaxing stroll or bike ride or an after work run to sweat it out.
Children can play their day away at one of the 3 childcare centres or 3 private family day care, 3 primary schools and 2 high schools, including the renowned Red Bend Catholic College (with boarding).
If you would like to talk to one of our previous employees for a confidential chat, please contact:
Simon: 0408 002 198
Or our current new graduate Mel, please call 02 6851 1100
Please send your application, including CV and cover letter, to atbkvet@gmail.com or give us a call on 02 6851 1100.
