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Zoo Conservation Veterinary Surgeon Employment Contract UK

Name: Zoo Conservation Veterinary Surgeon Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: veterinary_zoo_vet_conservation_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Define conservation medicine around individual welfare, population evidence and lawful movement of wildlife.

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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When to use this contract

Provide clinical and population-health advice, plan safe wildlife capture and treatment, and coordinate quarantine surveillance and translocation.

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

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the collections projects species and registrations. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the travel fieldwork on-call and security terms. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the permit sample and population-data 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: A Zoo Conservation Vet combines clinical care with population health, breeding, translocation and field projects. Terms should cover registration, species and field competence, capture and anaesthesia, quarantine, surveillance, sample permits, biosecurity, data, partner organisations and emergency plans. Conservation objectives should not erase individual welfare duties or justify work outside permits and competence. 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 collections projects species and registrations
the travel fieldwork on-call and security terms
the permit sample and population-data systems
the escape exposure and emergency routes
the curator keepers authorities laboratories and partners contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Zoo Vet (Conservation) work looks like in practice

A Zoo Conservation Vet combines clinical care with population health, breeding, translocation and field projects. Terms should cover registration, species and field competence, capture and anaesthesia, quarantine, surveillance, sample permits, biosecurity, data, partner organisations and emergency plans. Conservation objectives should not erase individual welfare duties or justify work outside permits and competence. Zoo Vet (Conservation) is a veterinary role focused on zoo vet (conservation) work planning, veterinary records, zoo vet (conservation) quality checks, veterinary escalation, zoo vet (conservation) stakeholder updates, zoo, vet, role duties. 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 Zoo Vet (Conservation) 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 zoo vet (conservation) work The Employee must follow the veterinary operational controls that apply to zoo vet (conservation) 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 zoo vet (conservation) duties Zoo Vet (Conservation) 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 zoo vet (conservation) work planning, veterinary records, zoo vet (conservation) quality checks. Family: clinical Zoo Vet (Conservation) Clinical accuracy Patient confidentiality Regulatory awareness Translocation plans should connect health screening, genetic or population rationale, transport, quarantine and post-release surveillance. Field samples need permit, location and cold-chain evidence that remains usable across partner institutions.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Provide clinical and population-health advice.
Plan safe wildlife capture and treatment.
Coordinate quarantine surveillance and translocation.
Manage samples permits and research records.
Report welfare disease and project risks.

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Outputs to agree

provide clinical and population-health advice
plan safe wildlife capture and treatment
coordinate quarantine surveillance and translocation

Records and evidence

The collections projects species and registrations.
The travel fieldwork on-call and security terms.
The permit sample and population-data 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

A Zoo Conservation Vet combines clinical care with population health, breeding, translocation and field projects. Terms should cover registration, species and field competence, capture and anaesthesia, quarantine, surveillance, sample permits, biosecurity, data, partner organisations and emergency plans. Conservation objectives should not erase individual welfare duties or justify work outside permits and competence.
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 collections projects species and registrations
the travel fieldwork on-call and security terms
the permit sample and population-data systems
the escape exposure and emergency routes

Information the employer should prepare

the collections projects species and registrations
the travel fieldwork on-call and security terms
the permit sample and population-data systems
the escape exposure and emergency routes
the curator keepers authorities laboratories and partners contacts

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Work setting

Regulated care, clinical, education or service premises.

Primary duties

Provide clinical and population-health advice.
Plan safe wildlife capture and treatment.
Coordinate quarantine surveillance and translocation.
Manage samples permits and research 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 collections projects species and registrations. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the travel fieldwork on-call and security terms. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the permit sample and population-data systems.

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Zoo Vet (Conservation) duties

Provide clinical and population-health advice, plan safe wildlife capture and treatment, and coordinate quarantine surveillance and translocation.

Provide clinical and population-health advice. Plan safe wildlife capture and treatment. Coordinate quarantine surveillance and translocation. Manage samples permits and research records. Report welfare disease and project risks.

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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 collections projects species and registrations.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the travel fieldwork on-call and security terms.

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