Equitait’s Student Apprenticeship Bursary 

 

We are looking to partner with two students to offer you a structured equine EMS experience over your final two years at university. This will help to provide you with the skills you will need to become a confident and competent vet on graduation.

• The training we provide is for vet students who have an interest in equine practice, in the expectation that we will be able to support you with a position as one of our Equine Interns following graduation. The Apprenticeship is therefore for vet students who have a keen interest in taking up an Internship with the Practice (see page “Internship”)
• As a first opinion practice with a growing clinic, you will accompany vets on their calls and on their rounds in the clinic, providing you with a brilliant insight into first opinion equine practice, work undertaken in a clinic and a supportive environment to develop your clinical skills from a student through to your first weeks and months as a newly qualified vet.
• You will have preferential selection over the dates of at least 8 weeks of EMS with Equitait and accommodation available at the practice should you require it.
• Our practice will allocate a dedicated vet to support you with your personal development during your student apprenticeship.
• Apprentice Vets will be supported with a financial bursary of £1000 during your time with us.

 

Timeline and Application Process:

If you are a 3^rd or 4^th year vet student and you would like to join our apprenticeship scheme  in your 4^th or 5^th year please apply by sending a copy of your CV and a covering letter to equitaithr@outlook.com. If you are hoping to apply for our Apprenticeship at some stage in the future, we would encourage you to try to see practice with us in your 3^rd or 4^th year.

This is the first year we have run this scheme so we will be accepting applications for the current  final year and 4^th year students up until the end of August.

There is no obligation to take a job offer at the end of the apprenticeship and payments do not need to be re-funded. Likewise if there is not going to be a position available following your graduation we will inform you with plenty of notice.

What to expect:

Naturally, students who spend more time at a practice who wish to invest in their development will benefit from an enhanced student experience. We would expect our bonded 4^th and final year students to regularly get the opportunity to perform – vaccinations and intramuscular injections, clinical examinations of in-patients, history taking from clients, intra-venous injections and blood sampling.

Depending upon the time of year and cases we would expect you to get good exposure to and provide hands-on assisting with :

Rectal examinations including ultrasonographic examination of the mare reproductive organs.

Sedation techniques

Castrations

Guttural pouch lavages

Stallion semen collections/artificial insemination

Gastroscopy

Foot and joint radiography

Musculoskeletal ultrasonography

IV catheters

Our Gallery shows some procedures taking place at the practice