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Clinical Veterinarian in First Opinion Equine Practice

Passionate about first-opinion equine work? Join our team of ambulatory and clinic-based equine vets who combine clinical work with teaching future vets.

Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Clinical Veterinarian in First Opinion Equine Practice to join our dynamic team, following a recent change within the service. Contribute to the continued development of our general equine practice and teach final-year vet students during their clinical rotations.

What We Offer: · Salary and Start: Up to £55,755/year + out-of-hours pay. Earliest start June 2025. · Contract: Full-time, permanent. However, we also welcome applications from individuals seeking part-time arrangements (minimum 3 days per week. Ideally be on consecutive days, but other days would be considered. Must include Fridays). Please specify your preferred working days in your application. · Annual Leave: 41 days/year (pro rata for part-time). · Professional Development: 10 days/year for CPD (pro rata for part-time). · Work-Life Balance: Planned admin time, good social/team time, supportive environment. · Pension Scheme: Very generous. · Enhanced Benefits: Maternity, Paternity, Parental Leave Pay, well-being support. · Employee Discounts: Retail and travel benefits. · Development Opportunities: Development of professional interests and leadership skills encouraged and fully supported.

Key Responsibilities: · Provide high-standard clinical service in equine practice. · Support the Principal Clinical Veterinarian in Equine General Practice. · Teach and mentor vet students during their equine clinical rotations. · Contribute to the expansion and enhancement of first-opinion equine services. · Participate in out-of-hours rota (additional pay).

About Us: We are an independent equine practice operating out of the vet school site including the Queens Veterinary School Hospital. You will be working alongside a diverse and integrated equine clinical team and embedded within a wider community of clinicians and support staff dedicated to providing compassionate veterinary clinical services to patients and clients in the Cambridgeshire area. Cambridge Equine Clinic provides ambulatory services within a 40-mile radius of the vet school, supported by outstanding clinic facilities including a new indoor menage, several well-equipped treatment rooms with stocks, full-surgical facilities, and an impressive array of equipment. Our team includes equine RVNs, experienced techs, with support from specialists in anaesthesia, clinical pathology and radiology.

Requirements: · Membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. · Relevant experience in equine practice. · Passion for teaching and mentoring veterinary students.

Informal Enquiries: Please contact Craig Rutland, Principal Clinical Veterinarian in Equine General Practice, via email: cr763@cam.ac.uk.

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Please outline in your job application how you meet the essential criteria set out in the Further Particulars.

Applications will be monitored regularly, and we may contact candidates prior to the closing date. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Shared practice vehicles are provided for work use.

Join us in shaping the future of equine veterinary practice and education at Cambridge Vet School! For more information about the Department, visit www.vet.cam.ac.uk.

The University actively supports equality, diversity, and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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The Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Research Centre is excited to be recruiting for a pro-active and dedicated administrator to join the team. Reporting to the Cambridge Neuroscience Strategic Manager and Directors of Cambridge Neuroscience, the post holder will be responsible for providing administrative and events support for the day-to-day aspects of running the Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC).

Cambridge Neuroscience is an overarching University initiative concerned with bringing together a critical mass of neuroscience research expertise from across all six Schools. The virtual community includes ~900 members, of whom 295 are Principal Investigators (PIs) working in everything from biomedicine and maths to psychiatry and philosophy, and education, engineering and economics. Membership spans all six Schools of the University and over 65 Departments and Institutes, including University Institutes. For more information about Cambridge Neuroscience, please visit the website at www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk

The role includes assisting in the organisation of meetings, workshops, festivals and conferences, as well as liaising with the members to ensure the timely delivery of documentation and that information is provided accurately and efficiently. This role has been created to support the management and planning of a series of high-profile events engaging stakeholders across research, industry and government and the role holder is expected to manage interactions with existing and potential stakeholders, understanding their needs and wishes. In addition, the role holder is expected to develop website resources, promotional materials and assist with networking and promoting relevant research opportunities information to encourage a flourishing research community. This position is currently funded for 2 years on a part-time basis, 22 hours per week. Candidates should note that there may be some working in evenings/weekends if required for events.

The ideal candidate will have previous administrative experience/following office procedures and be competent in standard software packages (in particular Word, Excel and Outlook). A confident IT user with excellent organisational skills, the candidate should also possess good time management, communication and interpersonal skills. We are looking for candidates with a "can-do" attitude, eager to learn, able to use their own initiative, especially when organising their own workload and meeting deadlines. Candidates must be educated to A Level standard or equivalent standard/NVQ level 3 or equivalent level of practical experience.

Applications close at 11:59pm on 28th April 2025. Interviews will take place on 8th May 2025.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.

Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.

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Further details can be found in the Further Particulars document. If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Team (hr@phar.cam.ac.uk). Queries about the role itself may be directed to Dr Dervila Glynn (dg248@cam.ac.uk).

Please quote reference PL45711 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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Assc. Prof. in Equine Orthopaedics and Surgery

We require a part-time specialist in Equine Orthopaedics and Surgery to join team in order to manage and direct teaching in equine orthopaedics and surgery within the Department of Veterinary Medicine. You will take overall responsibility for the practical and didactic teaching of clinical veterinary students in the area of equine surgery and orthopaedics, including the planning, preparation and delivery of lectures, seminars, and classes and the provision of innovative course developments in relevant subject area(s). Working closely with the Equine Teaching Professor, you will be closely involved in the setting and marking of VetMB examinations including examination of both practical skills and theoretical knowledge across the clinical years of the course. You will also supervise student research projects in relevant area(s).

You will be a Diploma holder of the AVCS, ECVS, or RCVS, and : Have a veterinary degree registerable with the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons and documented teaching experience.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Anna Hollis by email arh207@cam.ac.uk

For more information about the Department please visit www.vet.cam.ac.uk

Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.

Interviews are expected to be held late May/early June 2025

Please quote reference PP45681 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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Research Laboratory Technician (Fixed Term)

An exciting opportunity is available for a Research Laboratory Technician to join the group of Prof. Jake Harris at the Department of Plant Sciences. The laboratory is situated on the Downing Site in Cambridge and houses state-of-the-art facilities.

The project is part of a pioneering new effort to generate fully synthetic plant chromosomes, funded by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA, please see here https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/programmable-plants/synthetic-plants) for more details). The postholder will support and perform various routine and higher-level molecular biology techniques in the lab, including cloning (PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA purification, restriction reactions, ligation reactions, Gibson assembly, bacterial transformation and culture, plasmid purification, and Sanger sequencing), genotyping (collecting material, genomic DNA extraction, PCR, and gel electrophoresis), genetic transformations, as well as general plant husbandry and maintenance. The primary model organism is the 'green yeast', Physcomitrium patens, which holds many unique advantages for synthetic biology approaches. There is also scope for development in computational aspects and organisational pipelines. The project is part of an integrated team effort involving academic and biotech laboratories across the UK and Australia.

The successful candidate is not expected to be familiar with all these techniques; however, experience working with Physcomitrium patens or other non-vascular plants is highly beneficial. A willingness to learn and some prior laboratory experience is essential. The postholder will work closely alongside a postdoctoral researcher on the project and within a wider laboratory team setting, so evidence of successful teamwork to achieve well-defined project goals is critically important. The successful candidate will have a degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject, strong organisational and time-management skills, a positive attitude, and good team spirit.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.

Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.

Please notice that if you have not received any news from us 1 month after the closing date you should consider that on this occasion your application has not been successful.

Please quote reference PD45704 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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Post-doctoral Research Associate - Drosophila Connectomics Research Group (fixed term)

A Research Associate post is available in the Drosophila Connectomics Group directed by Greg Jefferis and Matthias Landgraf in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

The applicant will work with very large volume electron-microscopy Drosophila connectomics data as we approach the end of a £6.7M Wellcome international collaborative award with HHMI Janelia Research Campus, the MRC LMB in Cambridge and the University of Oxford. This project has worked towards production of two synaptic-resolution connectomes for an adult male and female Drosophila central nervous system (brain and nerve cord).

The principal focus will be the development of open source tools for the analysis of connectomics data. This will include developing tools to improve the quality of neuron identification and classification and the modelling of neuron and circuit function. Data sources will be neuronal morphologies, connectivity and computationally inferred or manually annotated metadata and published experimental data. A background in neurobiology, anatomy and a very strong quantitative preparation (with extensive experience in bioinformatics/computer science) will be essential. Prior experience with Drosophila connectomics data is desirable but not essential.

The successful candidate will join a team based in Zoology with 10 team members, carrying out data processing and analysis on computer-assisted neuronal reconstruction data. They will interact closely with a similar team in the US as well as experimental groups especially Greg Jefferis (Cambridge). Candidates will need to be highly motivated and develop a good understanding of the nature of the data and the project's scientific aims. This will be critical to setting priorities. Close teamwork and a collaborative spirit will be essential, but team members will be expected to demonstrate scientific independence matching their technical expertise. There will be opportunities to general project management, as well as to participate in public engagement activities.

Fixed-term: The position is full time, for 6 months. Funds for this post are available until 31st December 2025.

Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.

Flexible working requests will be considered.

We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our University.

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If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Anastasia Nezhentseva.

Email: an286@cam.ac.uk Telephone: (0)1223 330117

Please quote reference PF45663 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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