SHONA GRANT (Crudden)
Newcastle,Down
Summary
Highly motivated veterinary professional with broad experience in general practice. Dedicated to providing the best health care for animals, with exceptional people skills, building positive and lasting relationships with both clients and their pets.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Veterinary Surgeon
Vets4pets Bangor
Bangor, Co. Down
05.2017 - Current
- Well stablished in a busy first opinion practice, consulting and operating daily. Building good client vet relations, helping to benefit both patient and client care.
- Offering gold standard care for all patients - both surgical and medical cases, reducing the number of out of house referrals.
- Working closely with the clinical team to ensure best practice and ensure patients are receiving the highest quality care. Always striving for better.
- Liaising with non clinical staff to help manage the diary, clarify insurance queries and improve the client experience/service.
Assistant Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon
FT Locum
Allpets Veterinary Hospital
Drogheda
05.2016 - 02.2017
- Working as part of a smaller veterinary team, I enjoyed building strong relationships with clients and their pets, whilst maintaining continuity in care
- Consulting daily, with a varied and often challenging case load, instilling a high level of patient care, encouraging gold standard investigation e.g BALs, FNAs, bone biopsies and implement the most appropriate treatment
- Helping to establish a progressive evidence based medicine approach has allowed me to develop a more comprehensive understanding of such conditions, enabling me to deal with subsequent cases in a more appropriate manner
- Increased exposure to exotics species has enabled me to develop my skills in this area and treatment of such patients - this wider exposure will allow me to apply myself to future cases in a more effective way
- At an overall level, I was able to contribute to the veterinary team through CPD attendance, further reading, sharing my ideas on diagnostic methods and more modern drugs including their delivery.
Assistant Veterinary Surgeon
Castle Veterinary Group
Castlewellan
07.2013 - 05.2016
- Main areas of interest include small animal internal medicine, soft tissue surgery and ultrasound
- Consult daily, providing preventive health care options and treatment of both in and out patients
- Work directly with colleagues and nurses to achieve the highest level of care for my patients
- Operate daily, completing routine procedures i.e
- Spays, neuters, dentals, lump removals as well as more advanced surgery including foreign body removal, GDV, diaphragmatic hernia repair and cystomies
- Provide emergency OOH cover, during the week and at weekends, to both large and small animals
- Investigate cases using all the available tests, utilizing both internal and external labs, to achieve a definitive diagnosis
- Help to develop new ideas within the practice
- Research various topics and attended CPD to improve my core skills
- In terms of large animals, I have conducted TB testing, BR testing, ultrasound scanning, bovine/ovine/equine obstetrics, routine sick calls as well as providing herd health advise and planning on a routine basis.
Education
BVMS - Veterinary Medicine
University of Glasgow
Glasgow 09.2008 - 06.2013
Skills
- Good communicator
- Resilient
- Good leadership
- Organised
- Motivating
Interests
My main interests are internal medicine, ultrasonography and soft tissue surgery.
Outside of veterinary, I love the outdoors, whether that be at home on the family farm, in the garden or exploring the mountains.
Timeline
Veterinary Surgeon
Vets4pets Bangor
05.2017 - Current
Assistant Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon
FT Locum
Allpets Veterinary Hospital
05.2016 - 02.2017
Assistant Veterinary Surgeon
Castle Veterinary Group
07.2013 - 05.2016
BVMS - Veterinary Medicine
University of Glasgow
09.2008 - 06.2013
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