Veterinary employment contract

Farm and Large Animal Veterinary Surgeon Contract UK

Name: Farm and Large Animal Veterinary Surgeon Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: veterinary_vet_farm_large_animal_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Define mobile production-animal practice around safe handling, disease control and defensible prescribing.

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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Job description

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

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Holiday entitlement

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Confidentiality

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When to use this contract

Provide emergency and routine farm clinical care, develop herd flock and preventive plans, and deliver prescribe administer and record medicines.

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

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the species holdings and practice area. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the on-call travel vehicle and lone-work terms. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the medicine laboratory and certification systems. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the injury disease 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: A Farm Vet works with cattle, sheep and other large animals on holdings and in field conditions. Terms should cover registration, driving and call-outs, farm biosecurity, crush and handling safety, herd planning, fertility, medicines, sampling, notifiable-disease escalation, certification and lone working. The vet should not proceed without safe restraint or certify facts they have not verified. 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 holdings and practice area
the on-call travel vehicle and lone-work terms
the medicine laboratory and certification systems
the injury disease and emergency routes
the practice lead farmers laboratories and authorities contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Vet (Farm/Large Animal) work looks like in practice

A Farm Vet works with cattle, sheep and other large animals on holdings and in field conditions. Terms should cover registration, driving and call-outs, farm biosecurity, crush and handling safety, herd planning, fertility, medicines, sampling, notifiable-disease escalation, certification and lone working. The vet should not proceed without safe restraint or certify facts they have not verified. Vet (Farm/Large Animal) is a veterinary role focused on vet (farm/large animal) work planning, veterinary records, vet (farm/large animal) quality checks, veterinary escalation, vet (farm/large animal) 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 (Farm/Large Animal) 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 (farm/large animal) work The Employee must follow the veterinary operational controls that apply to vet (farm/large animal) 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 (farm/large animal) duties Vet (Farm/Large Animal) 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 (farm/large animal) work planning, veterinary records, vet (farm/large animal) quality checks. Family: clinical Vet (Farm/Large Animal) Clinical accuracy Patient confidentiality Regulatory awareness

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Provide emergency and routine farm clinical care.
Develop herd flock and preventive plans.
Prescribe administer and record medicines.
Collect samples and complete certification.
Manage biosecurity handling and disease escalation.

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Outputs to agree

provide emergency and routine farm clinical care
develop herd flock and preventive plans
prescribe administer and record medicines

Records and evidence

The species holdings and practice area.
The on-call travel vehicle and lone-work terms.
The medicine laboratory and certification systems.
The injury disease 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

A Farm Vet works with cattle, sheep and other large animals on holdings and in field conditions. Terms should cover registration, driving and call-outs, farm biosecurity, crush and handling safety, herd planning, fertility, medicines, sampling, notifiable-disease escalation, certification and lone working. The vet should not proceed without safe restraint or certify facts they have not verified.
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 holdings and practice area
the on-call travel vehicle and lone-work terms
the medicine laboratory and certification systems
the injury disease and emergency routes

Information the employer should prepare

the species holdings and practice area
the on-call travel vehicle and lone-work terms
the medicine laboratory and certification systems
the injury disease and emergency routes
the practice lead farmers laboratories and authorities contacts

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Work setting

Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

Primary duties

Provide emergency and routine farm clinical care.
Develop herd flock and preventive plans.
Prescribe administer and record medicines.
Collect samples and complete certification.

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 holdings and practice area. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the on-call travel vehicle and lone-work terms. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the medicine laboratory and certification systems.

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Vet (Farm/Large Animal) duties

Provide emergency and routine farm clinical care, develop herd flock and preventive plans, and deliver prescribe administer and record medicines.

Provide emergency and routine farm clinical care. Develop herd flock and preventive plans. Prescribe administer and record medicines. Collect samples and complete certification. Manage biosecurity handling and disease escalation.

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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 holdings and practice area.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the on-call travel vehicle and lone-work terms.

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