Community Team

Picture this: You’re standing in your clinic, stethoscope around your neck, when suddenly it hits you – it’s time for a change. Maybe you’re yearning to be closer to family, itching to climb the career ladder, or simply feeling that itch for something new. Whatever your reason, you’ve made the decision to explore new horizons in your veterinary career. But where do you start?

Just as you wouldn’t rush into diagnosing a complex case without a thorough examination, your job search deserves the same careful approach. So, let’s embark on this journey together, exploring seven essential steps that will guide you – whether you’re a vet, nurse, or tech – toward your next exciting opportunity…

Returning to work after a period of parental leave can be both a rewarding and daunting balancing act for veterinary professionals. Whether you’re seeking a financial boost, mental stimulation, or some actual adult conversation (or all three!), we’ve got some practical tips on getting your figurative ducks lined up for a smooth transition back into the workplace. Apply the organizational and self-care advice outlined here, and you, too, can genuinely achieve the healthy, sustainable long-term equilibrium of working and parenting that every parent wants…

Whether you are building a new practice from the ground up or approaching a new role where practice management is a key element, ensuring a positive culture is critical to your success.  Your practice culture will be reflected in your team’s attitudes and, in turn, how your clients and patients feel when they interact with your team. Taking the time to build positivity into your business practices will pay huge dividends. Here are 6 proven strategies and tactics to get you started… 

In veterinary medicine, the line between the demands of your profession and your life outside of your calling is becoming more blurred, scuffed, or even washed away entirely by the tide of daily life. We’ve all had those long cases that go well past closing time, that friend whose cat is having a moment, or a veterinary pal who is having a tough time coping and reaches out. And our natural empathy makes it very hard to say no. Yet, having boundaries can help you keep your own work-life situation in balance. We’re not talking about Great Wall boundaries, more like lines in the sand. If we all learned how to set and appreciate boundaries, we could foster more mutual respect and compassion amongst each other rather than resentment or anger. And we might just add another small but important facet towards improving the overall mental health of the veterinary profession. So, here are some essential steps toward setting mutually beneficial boundaries…

Locum Relief Veterinary Professionals are invaluable to practices that need a little extra support while key team members are away, or that want to give their team a well-earned break. Yes, you need the same foundational skills as any other talented Veterinarian, Nurse, or Technician. However, there are certain attributes and skills Locum Relief team members must be particularly good at. And yet, a great full-time Veterinarian may not make a great Locum, and vice versa, a talented Locum Relief Nurse may not be ideally suited to a permanent role. So what exactly does it take to be a successful Locum Relief Veterinary Professional? There are certainly more than 5, but if you have a good handle on these, any clinic, hospital, or emergency center will be keen to have you regularly on their team…

Like many practice owners, you may be finding yourself a bit short-staffed these days. As the demand for veterinary services increases, there simply aren’t enough Veterinarians, Veterinary Nurses and Technicians to fill every single open position. In many practices, this shortage means temporarily relying on the help of a locum relief team member. While locum relief Veterinary Professionals can offer tremendous value to your practice and help with filling in gaps, they can also be in short supply. Depending on your location, there may be a limited number of locum relief vets, nurses and techs in your area, and there might be a surprisingly large number of practices courting them. Learn how you can make your practice stand out, improving your likelihood of finding, attracting and keeping high-quality locum relief team members…

You know that sinking feeling. You have an unexpected gap in your shift scheduler, staring back at you, expecting to be magically filled. Or you know deep down that it’s time to ease the workload in your practice and give your permanent team members that well-earned R&R they well-and-truly deserve. You need an experienced, reliable locum relief veterinary professional, one that is worth their weight in gold. But even better – and we are talking platinum grade here – is an experienced, reliable locum relief professional already familiar with your protocols, facilities, team and clientele, who can hit the ground running. And for Locum Relief Vets, Nurses and Technicians, discover how to set the scene for your Locum Relief contracts. Here are six ways to attract the most valuable locum relief talent to your practice and ensure their visit is more than just a one-shift wonder…

Here you are, still relatively early in your veterinary career. You’re making it, not faking it nowadays. Still, every so often, there’s a curly medical situation, or a brief moment of self-doubt or you come across a more seasoned Vet, Nurse, or Tech who seems to have all the answers right at their fingertips. You don’t have “imposter syndrome” exactly, but you occasionally find yourself wondering how you will ever achieve that level of expertise…that combination of experience, grace, and talent that will one day fill you to overflowing with the confidence to deliver best-practice veterinary care, all day, every day. Fortunately, courtesy of a bubble in the space-time continuum, the experienced, talented, and confident future you has sent these gems of wisdom back for you to build on. So, heads up…

To attract, develop and retain veterinary professional talent – Vets, Nurses and Techs – it’s essential that you get compensation and benefits right. Although salary and pay scales are not the sole driver of recruitment success or job satisfaction, they remain a key element, together with flexible scheduling, a supportive and collaborative team and a genuine commitment to work-life balance and more. Our Veterinarian Salary Survey is prepared twice yearly in January and July and is assembled from a range of publicly available sources together with our own data so as to provide a broad guide to employees and employers as to the overall market and any variance in half-yearly trends. Explore our latest July 2022 Salary Survey with data from the USA, UK and Australia…