VETERINARIAN

VETERINARIAN

VACANCY

Applications are invited for suitably qualified persons to fill the following position at the North-Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA).

VETERINARIAN

The incumbent will be responsible for the implementation of programmes and the delivery of a range of veterinary services at the Veterinary Hospital.

Main Responsibilities:

• Consult with clients of the Veterinary Hospital.
• Evaluate cases, provide diagnoses and implement medical care as best as can be provided.
• Collect samples for diagnoses, e.g. whole blood, serum, fine needle tissue aspirate, skin scraping, stool, urine, incisional biopsy, punch biopsy, sterile technique swab of affected areas, etc.
• Formulate and implement treatment plans for patients, be it during outpatient or inpatient consultation.
• Make daily assessments of all in-patient cases.
• Do surgeries as required for cases presented to the hospital.
• Provide follow-up on diagnostic tests performed, i.e. informing clients and providing treatment plans in light of new results.
• Counsel and educate clients.
• Provide follow-up on out-patient cases.
• Rehabilitate orthopaedic cases, especially post surgery.
• Source pharmaceuticals which cannot be provided or sourced by the Stores Clerk or Pharmacy Stores.
• Teach clinical skills to veterinary students.
• Keep and update records and maintain daily case notes.
• Administer anaesthesia for surgeries, diagnostic tests or minor procedures, e.g. X-rays, biopsies, bronchoscopy, otoscopy, colonoscopy, rhinoscopy, etc
• Complete anaesthetic forms for patients’ anaesthetic records.
• Conduct X-ray examiniations.
• Administer specific pharmaceuticals of high risk, e.g. chemotherapeutic drugs.
• Ensure the delivery of samples to the University of the West Indies’s Hematology, Necropsy and Microbiology Laboratory’s, as well as to the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
• Supervise students during procedures, e.g. surgical, medical therapy, diagnostics and anaethesia.
• Work up private veterinary referral cases and carry out procedures requested by referring veterinarians or continue treatment of cases which they can no longer treat or require help with.
• Make up Charge Sheets for every case treated, which will be used by the Cashier for invoicing.
• Coordinate the weekend treatment of hospitalized cases.
• Identify areas where the Veterinary Hospital can be improved; and formulate and implement such plans.

Minimum Qualifications, Training and Experience:

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
• Registration with the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago
• One (1) to two (2) years of clinical experience in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery

* Certificates acquired at foreign universities MUST be supported by certified transcripts as well as evidence that the completed programme is accredited in Trinidad and Tobago.

All applications should be submitted with a cover letter, a detailed Curriculum Vitae, copies of relevant certificates, birth certificate, a police certificate of good character, a contact number and two (2) testimonials by November 15, 2021 and addressed (with the name of the position applied for, clearly labelled, on the outside of the envelope and the cover letter). To:

Office of the General Manager, Human Resources

North-Central Regional Health Authority

Building # 39, Third Floor

Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex

Champs Fleurs

Unsuitable/late applications will not be acknowledged.