Parents come back to work after a few months parental leave, and work incredibly hard, pushing themselves at work and at home. Or your practice requires you to be flexible which hours and days you work, but you have fixed childcare arrangements. Yes, most vets will have children. Yes, most vets will have childcare responsibilities. If practices where more sympathetic to the fact that vets are people, with families and family responsibilities, there would be a whole lot more vets still in practice.
Also, you have forgotten to point out that are only registered vets vs registered doctors to cope with millions of animals in the UK. The problem is twofold — supply and demand.
On the demand side there are more animals and Brexit has pushed the requirement for OVs. A double-whammy. On the supply side there are fewer and fewer vets being recruited into the industry.
The barriers to entry are too high — the language tests imposed by the Royal College make it almost impossible for them to become registered in the UK. I think we are finally at a point where the industry needs to align itself to the needs of the vet, as he is the backbone. I am sure it will get worse before it gets better! Old fashioned attitudes do not help.
I was pretty much forced out of a job for wanting to reduce my hours for childcare. The managers even called my family members to keep me at work when I was supposed to be looking after our children. Btw, I am the father. College places have always been given to vets with near-straight-A results and a tendency to over-push themselves, which does appear to lead to mental health problems and competitive, bullying cultures later on.
Every vet I know has seen bullying and had a friend or colleague who sadly committed suicide at the top of their game. This appears to have a huge effect. I am disappointed that you listed maternity leave rather than parental leave: people will continue to need parental leave, regardless of their gender — and the gender gap in taking parental leave is slowly evening up. My husband, who is conveniently not a vet, took most of ours.
There is certainly a huge demand for shorter hours for all sorts of reasons illnesses, too and bosses making an effort to provide those opportunities would keep people both male and female in the profession. Out of hours services are a surprisingly popular working pattern with new parents. There is also a group of veterinary professionals that suffer with chronic illness. I was one of them This could be because of the job itself eg back and knee injuries or those diagnosed later on in life with asthma, allergies to animals — the list is endless.
The fast paced demanding life of a veterinary clinic will undoubtedly affect these individuals. Amendments to the job role or hours need to be considered but I fear rarely occur, therefore vet professionals leave and put their physical plus mental health first.
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Table of contents Is this just an excuse to push prices up? Other important issues are… So why are we worried about it? So why is it happening? Some people are blaming the increase in women in the profession Some people are blaming Brexit A bigger question is being asked about vet retention. Some vets blame unreasonable behaviour by some pet owners. You may also be interested in:. Vet shortage. Waiting time. News and Comment. Life as vet - what its like. There has also been a drop in foreign workers and a shift into non-clinical work as this usually comes with fewer hours and better pay rates.
Again, I asked Tim for a student insight into foreign workers and the lack of home-grown talent;. Many small rural vets are struggling to recruit and also find people to undertake out of hours responsibilities. I have heard vets complain that the new graduates are not of the same calibre, and are not willing to do out of hours work. I disagree, and I personally am fully prepared and willing to do the work that I fully expected when I applied to vet school.
From my experience, universities are ever continuing to expand and increase year groups, and are all at maximum carrying capacity. The recent addition of the University of Surrey to the vet school list also has increased the number of vets being trained.
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