Junior Clinician in Small Animal Diagnostic Imaging
Job Description
The University of Glasgow Small Animal Hospital is seeking to recruit a Junior Clinician to join our Small Animal Imaging team as Diagnostic Imaging intern. This position might suit someone who has recently completed a rotating or previous imaging internship and who is looking for the next step towards specialization.
You will be joining a friendly Imaging team of two European Diagnostic Imaging specialists, an advanced practitioner/ultrasonographer, and three radiographers. Our diagnostic imaging suite includes an on-site 1.5T MRI (Siemens Magnetom Essenza 1.5T MRI), a 80-slice CT scanner (Canon Aquilion Lightning), digital radiography, and C-arm and ultrasonography (GE Logiq E9 for general ultrasound and a GE Vivid E95 for echocardiography) units.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to support the delivery of an efficient and effective small animal imaging referral service, which acts as a hub between a tight-knit, supportive multidisciplinary team including many specialists working in a wide range of services within our award-winning state-of-the-art Small Animal Hospital. You will see a varied and interesting referral and emergency caseload.
Job purpose
To contribute to the delivery of an efficient and effective small animal diagnostic imaging referral service by providing clinical activity in the Small Animal Hospital under supervision of ECVDI Diplomates and residency-trained clinicians. To contribute to the School objectives relevant to national and international excellence in clinical service, teaching and research.
N.B. This posts is offered on a 1 year fixed-term basis, such that they offer the early stage clinical experience required as vets prepare for further specialist training, for example through residencies and masters formal training programmes. While appointments may be extended for a short-fixed term period where this would be in the mutual interest, in the interests of ensuring that veterinary career development is supported, and to assist with recruitment to the University’s Residency and Masters Programmes, the one year duration will remain the normal duration.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical:
1. To contribute to the delivery of a small animal diagnostic imaging referral service by providing a high quality service and appropriate advice to colleagues/clinicians, external referring practices and owners that will consequently maintain a clinical referral workload necessary to support the commercial, teaching and scholarship activities. This may include organising cases for imaging procedures (e.g. in the context of breeding schemes) including owner communication, clinical work-up and documentation.
2. To support the development of novel approaches and techniques to aid diagnosis and treatment and exploit the opportunities to enhance the income generation capability of the service.
3. To contribute to the out-of-hours referral service provision at weekends on a 1:4 basis if required.
4. To participate in the out-of-hours first opinion service if required, ensuring adequate cover is available for the provision of direct supervision, advice and expertise when required. To contribute to the Anaesthesia service for patients undergoing Imaging procedures if required.
5. To ensure compliance with the continuing professional development requirements of the appropriate speciality and the RCVS.
6. To participate in promotional activities and events relating to the Small Animal Hospital.
7. To contribute to the ongoing development of the academic discipline of the Division.
Teaching:
8. To support the delivery of undergraduate and – if required – post-graduate teaching activities within veterinary medicine in accordance with established programmes.
9. To support the development of creative and innovative approaches to teaching and learning, in accordance with the University’s Quality Enhancement Strategy, so that the educational opportunities available to students are maintained or improved.
10. To deliver a range of assessment activities and engage fully in the examination process as appropriate, using a variety of methods and techniques and provide effective, timely and appropriate feedback to students to support learning.
Clinical Scholarship:
11. To support and collaborate in appropriate clinical scholarship projects/trials within the Small Animal Hospital and to present findings at national and international meetings to ensure a high profile for the School, as well as the University of Glasgow.
12. To attend and actively participate in national/international events/research seminars/conferences within the service area.
Administration:
13. To contribute to the administrative work of the Hospital/Division as assigned by the Clinical Director/Head of Division and head of the Imaging service.
14. To contribute to the performance and development review processes as appropriate in accordance with university strategy.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential:
A1 Veterinary degree registerable with RCVS. For those individuals who are not already Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, or citizens of a majority English Speaking Country it will be necessary, in order to be registerable with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, to demonstrate the minimal required standard of the RCVS at the time of application (and this will be checked if the applicant is invited for interview).
Desirable:
B1 Prior training and experience in Small animal diagnostic imaging.
B2 Masters, PhD or other evidence of research training .
Skills
Essential:
C1 High standard of communication skills both orally and written.
C2 Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
C3 Self-motivated, able to plan for contingencies and think strategically.
C4 High standard of presentation skills.
C5 Ability to provide advice to clinicians and external veterinary surgeons.
Desirable:
D1 Ability to provide veterinary care to small animal patients receiving specialist care in the small animal hospital.
D2 Understanding and experience of statistics, databases and other IT applications/packages.
Experience
Essential:
E1 Post-graduate clinical experience in small animal veterinary medicine (rotating internship – 12 months in a university/academic setting or 24 months in a private/referral setting).
Desirable:
F1 Teaching experience relevant to the HE sector.
F2 A track-record of clinical publications.
F3 Post-graduate clinical experience in small animal diagnostic imaging.
For more information on which English language examinations are required by the RCVS please see . Please note that the RCVS uses the IELTS and OET tests to assess if their language requirements are met. If applying for a UK visa before becoming an MRCVS then please note that these tests have to be conducted in UK Home Office approved centres for visa purposes.
Terms and Conditions
Salary will be Grade 6, £33,951 – £37,694 per annum.
This post is full time, 35 Hours Per Week and fixed term for up to 12 months.
The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information please visit:
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
1 A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
2 An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, pension, benefits and discount packages.
3 A flexible approach to working.
4 A commitment to support your health and wellbeing, including a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new staff joining the University.
We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community here.
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Informal Enquiries should be directed Miss Anne Staudacher,
Closing Date: 17th August 2026 at 23:45.
