Full Time | Continuing  

The School of Animal & Veterinary Sciences is seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Small Animal Internal Medicine Clinician. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to clinical services, teaching, and research within a collaborative academic environment.

About the Role

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their career in a vibrant and supportive environment, contributing to the advancement of knowledge and the provision of high-quality clinical services. As part of our team, you will help shape the future of veterinary education and clinical practice in small animal medicine. You will be joining a welcoming team of academic and professional veterinarians, consisting of three surgeons, two medical oncologists, an anaesthesia service, a 24-hr emergency service, and general practitioners. We maintain a highly collaborative and collegial clinical environment, and strive to demonstrate our passion for veterinary medicine and lifelong learning to our rotating DVM students.

This position would involve a mixture of clinical, teaching, research and administrative responsibilities that can be catered to the strengths of the candidate. Clinical responsibilities would entail primary case management and the re-establishment of this specialty service at the Roseworthy Veterinary Hospital (RVH). Teaching contributions are primarily needed within the 2^nd and clinical years of the DVM curriculum, but opportunities also exist to educate new graduates on staff as general practitioners in the RVH, as well as nurses and nursing students. Research and administrative contributions will be dependent on the experience and interest of the candidate.

About the Practice:

The Roseworthy Veterinary Hospital (RVH) provides a range of first opinion, ambulatory, and specialist veterinary care across all animal species to the general public and referring veterinarians. The RVH has excellent facilities including an outstanding Large Animal Hospital, Companion Animal Hospital, and an on-site Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. We have dedicated teaching and animal handling facilities and a herd of approximately 30 teaching horses. We are continuing to develop the clinical services, including plans for commencing residency programs in the near future, and developing our research capabilities.

The large animal team consists of internal medicine specialists, surgeons, an equine sports medicine specialist, junior/ hospital veterinarians, and ambulatory clinicians. We are supported by a team of experienced nurses and anaesthetists. Whilst the bulk of our caseload is equine related, we also provide primary opinion services to the local hobby farm animal owners.

The School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences is located on a 1600 hectare property at the Roseworthy campus. The campus is situated on the doorstep of the Barossa Valley - an internationally renowned wine region, beaches, sporting activities, benchmark schools, and shopping facilities.  It is South Australia's only veterinary school and constitutes a team of leading animal and veterinary science academics. 

Lecturer (Level B, $111,031 - $131,335 per annum) plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

To be successful at Level B you will need:

• At least one of the following qualification:
  
  1. Eligibility to sit FANZCVS, DACVIM or ECVIM examinations following completion of an approved residency.
  2. ANZCVS Membership in Small Animal Medicine.
• Qualification in Veterinary Science acceptable for registration with the Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia.
• Proven ability to contribute independently to a clinical referral service in internal medicine.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as a member of clinical and teaching teams.
• Desirable - Specialist qualifications in Small Animal Internal Medicine, i.e. Australian Fellowship (FANZCVS), or Diplomat of the American or European Colleges (DACVIM or ECVIM).

Senior Lecturer (Level C, $135,388 – $155,696 per annum) plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

 To be successful at Level C you will need:

• Specialist qualifications in Small Animal Internal Medicine, i.e. Australian Fellowship (FANZCVS), or Diplomat of the American or European Colleges (DACVIM or ECVIM).Qualification in Veterinary Science acceptable for registration with the Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia.
• Proven ability to contribute independently to a clinical referral service in internal medicine.
• Evidence of significant contributions to the teaching effort of a department, school or faculty in small animal medicine at tertiary level.
• Evidence of primary and/or senior authorship on scientific publications within peer reviewed journals.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as a member of clinical, teaching and research teams.

Associate Professor (Level D, $162,460 – $178,700 per annum) plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

To be successful at Level D you will need:

• Specialist qualifications in Small Animal Internal Medicine, i.e. Australian Fellowship (FANZCVS), or Diplomat of the American or European Colleges (DACVIM or ECVIM).
• Doctoral level research degree.
• Qualification in Veterinary Science acceptable for registration with the Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia.
• Proven ability to lead a clinical referral service in internal medicine.
• Proven ability to train small animal medicine residents to specialist level.
• Evidence of significant contributions to the teaching effort of a department, school or faculty in small animal medicine at tertiary level.
• Strong publication track record in peer reviewed international journals and evidence of the ability to attract research funding.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as a member of clinical, teaching and research teams.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

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Applications close 11:55pm, 20 February 2025

The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:

Dr Sita Withers
Clinical Lead, Small Animal Medicine
E: sita.withers@adelaide.edu.au          

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The University of Adelaide is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.