Graduate Companion Animal Veterinarian

Graduate Companion Animal Veterinarian

Echuca & Moama Veterinary Clinic | Echuca, Victoria

Rather know everyone you work with than get lost in a huge hospital?

At Echuca & Moama Veterinary Clinic, you'll join a close knit, community focused companion animal practice where people genuinely work together.

The clinic has a loyal, long standing client base and a team that prides itself on being approachable, collaborative and supportive, with a strong focus on providing great veterinary care while maintaining balance outside work.

For a new graduate who wants to build strong companion animal foundations, know the people around them and have experienced vets and nurses there to support them, Echuca is a pretty great place to start.

Why Echuca?

Sometimes smaller is exactly what you want when you're starting your career.

You'll work alongside experienced veterinarians and a capable nursing and reception team, giving you people around you to ask questions, discuss cases with and learn from as your confidence grows.

The team includes experience in small animal surgery and canine rehabilitation, giving you the opportunity to learn alongside vets with established areas of expertise.

Rather than expecting you to know everything on day one, we want to help you build your clinical skills, decision making and confidence at a pace that works for you.

A graduate position where your nurses are part of the team

One of the things we particularly like about the way Echuca works is its approach to nursing support.

Nurses are actively involved in helping the day run smoothly, allowing you to focus more of your attention on your patients and clients. The clinic also places a genuine emphasis on work life balance.

As a new graduate, you'll have the opportunity to build your skills across an interesting and varied companion animal caseload and develop your own clinical interests as your experience grows. An interest in dentistry would be particularly welcomed by the team.

You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what type of companion animal vet you want to become. That's part of what your graduate year is for.

What you'll receive

• Above award salary
• Relocation assistance
• One-week paid study leave each year
• Veterinary registration paid
• $1,000 towards professional memberships and subscriptions
• Structured graduate development and ongoing CPD
• Employee Assistance Program
• Staff discounts on veterinary products and services
• Retail, travel and gym discounts
• Four weeks annual leave
• Five days paid volunteer leave

Your working week

The full time position is worked as a nine day fortnight, giving you a rostered day off each fortnight.

The clinic shares after hours responsibilities across the veterinary team. The position information provided by the clinic includes at least one weekday on call shift and one on call weekend shift each month.

After hours calls are supported by the Vetriage service, which filters calls before they reach the veterinarian and takes deposits.

For a graduate, the focus is on building your skills with an experienced team around you rather than expecting you to have everything figured out from day one.

Life in Echuca Moama

Then there is everything outside work.

Echuca and Moama sit on the Murray River and offer the ease of regional living while still having great cafes, restaurants, sporting and outdoor activities and the amenities you want close by.

It is the kind of place where you can become part of the community, develop long term relationships with your clients and still have plenty to enjoy when the working day finishes.

If you're looking for somewhere that feels manageable enough to settle into but still has plenty happening around you, Echuca offers a lovely balance.

About you

We're looking for a graduate veterinarian who genuinely wants to build strong foundations in companion animal practice.

You don't need to arrive as an accomplished surgeon or have every consult figured out.

We are much more interested in someone who:

• Enjoys companion animal medicine and surgery
• Wants to learn from experienced vets and nurses
• Values teamwork and collaboration
• Communicates well with clients and colleagues
• Is comfortable asking questions
• Wants to build great relationships with clients and their pets
• Is keen to keep learning and developing their clinical skills

If you are enthusiastic, kind, willing to learn and want to be part of a team where people actually know and support each other, we'd love to hear from you.

Ready to start your veterinary career?

Your first veterinary job doesn't need to be in a huge hospital to give you a great clinical foundation.

Sometimes the best place to learn is somewhere you know your teammates, know your clients and have experienced people beside you as you work out what kind of vet you want to become.

Build your companion animal skills. Learn from an experienced team. Work alongside nurses who are genuinely part of how the clinic operates. And start your career in a community on the Murray River where you can build a life outside work as well.

Come and start your veterinary career with Echuca & Moama Veterinary Clinic.

We'd love to hear from you. Apply with your cover letter and resume via the portal or contact Corinne at corinne.warnick@apiam.com.au or 0458 387 478 to discuss the role.