Veterinary employment contract

Exotic and Zoo Veterinary Surgeon Employment Contract UK

Name: Exotic and Zoo Veterinary Surgeon Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: veterinary_vet_exotics_zoo_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Set specialist medicine around species limits, safe capture and coordinated collection management.

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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When to use this contract

Assess diagnose and treat exotic patients, plan restraint anaesthesia and safe handling, and advise on quarantine husbandry and population health.

Workplace context: Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the species sites and registration requirements. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the rota travel and dangerous-animal arrangements. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the pharmacy quarantine and record systems. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the escape exposure and emergency routes. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: An Exotic or Zoo Vet diagnoses and treats non-domestic species in practices, collections or referral settings. Terms should cover registration, species competence, keeper information, restraint and anaesthesia, quarantine, zoonoses, medicines, post-mortems, dangerous-animal procedures and escape response. The vet should seek specialist support where a species or technique exceeds competence and coordinate operational decisions with authorised keepers. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

the species sites and registration requirements
the rota travel and dangerous-animal arrangements
the pharmacy quarantine and record systems
the escape exposure and emergency routes
the curator keepers laboratory and referral contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Vet (Exotics/Zoo) work looks like in practice

An Exotic or Zoo Vet diagnoses and treats non-domestic species in practices, collections or referral settings. Terms should cover registration, species competence, keeper information, restraint and anaesthesia, quarantine, zoonoses, medicines, post-mortems, dangerous-animal procedures and escape response. The vet should seek specialist support where a species or technique exceeds competence and coordinate operational decisions with authorised keepers. Vet (Exotics/Zoo) is a veterinary role focused on vet (exotics/zoo) work planning, veterinary records, vet (exotics/zoo) quality checks, veterinary escalation, vet (exotics/zoo) stakeholder updates, vet, role duties, confidentiality. The contract should describe the role's practical duties, reporting route, records, standards and compliance obligations without importing wording from another industry The Employee is employed as Vet (Exotics/Zoo) in the Employer's Veterinary business. The role requires reasonable skill, care, accuracy, cooperation with management instructions and attention to the records, risks and standards specific to vet (exotics/zoo) work The Employee must follow the veterinary operational controls that apply to vet (exotics/zoo) work, including RCVS escalation, patient safety, clinical records, consent procedures, medicines controls where authorised and incident reporting, accurate record keeping, escalation and safe working requirements The Employee must protect patient, clinical, prescription, treatment, appointment, medication, safeguarding and regulated health records, including any personal data, customer or client information, operational records, pricing, credentials, security information, business plans and role-specific records accessed while performing vet (exotics/zoo) duties Vet (Exotics/Zoo) work in Veterinary must follow RCVS expectations where they apply, the Employer's policies, data protection controls, health and safety rules, role records, escalation routes and training requirements relevant to vet (exotics/zoo) work planning, veterinary records, vet (exotics/zoo) quality checks. Family: clinical Vet (Exotics/Zoo) Clinical accuracy Patient confidentiality Regulatory awareness Species planning should account for thermoregulation, stress masking, enclosure capture routes and drug-dose evidence. A keeper's longitudinal observations may be clinically important but remain distinct from the veterinarian's examination findings.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Assess diagnose and treat exotic patients.
Plan restraint anaesthesia and safe handling.
Advise on quarantine husbandry and population health.
Control medicines samples and clinical records.
Coordinate emergencies escapes and specialist referrals.

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Outputs to agree

assess diagnose and treat exotic patients
plan restraint anaesthesia and safe handling
advise on quarantine husbandry and population health

Records and evidence

The species sites and registration requirements.
The rota travel and dangerous-animal arrangements.
The pharmacy quarantine and record systems.
The escape exposure and emergency routes.
Work records.
Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

An Exotic or Zoo Vet diagnoses and treats non-domestic species in practices, collections or referral settings. Terms should cover registration, species competence, keeper information, restraint and anaesthesia, quarantine, zoonoses, medicines, post-mortems, dangerous-animal procedures and escape response. The vet should seek specialist support where a species or technique exceeds competence and coordinate operational decisions with authorised keepers.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

Care planning systems.
Mobility equipment.

Workplace context

Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

Training and certification

Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

the species sites and registration requirements
the rota travel and dangerous-animal arrangements
the pharmacy quarantine and record systems
the escape exposure and emergency routes

Information the employer should prepare

the species sites and registration requirements
the rota travel and dangerous-animal arrangements
the pharmacy quarantine and record systems
the escape exposure and emergency routes
the curator keepers laboratory and referral contacts

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Work setting

Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

Primary duties

Assess diagnose and treat exotic patients.
Plan restraint anaesthesia and safe handling.
Advise on quarantine husbandry and population health.
Control medicines samples and clinical records.

Tools and training to confirm

Care planning systems.
Mobility equipment.
Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Governance focus

RCVS context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the species sites and registration requirements. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the rota travel and dangerous-animal arrangements. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the pharmacy quarantine and record systems.

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Vet (Exotics/Zoo) duties

Assess diagnose and treat exotic patients, plan restraint anaesthesia and safe handling, and advise on quarantine husbandry and population health.

Assess diagnose and treat exotic patients. Plan restraint anaesthesia and safe handling. Advise on quarantine husbandry and population health. Control medicines samples and clinical records. Coordinate emergencies escapes and specialist referrals.

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What is added to the finished contract

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the species sites and registration requirements.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the rota travel and dangerous-animal arrangements.

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