Practice (Independent or corporate?)
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Valley Equine Hospital
(Corporate)
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Type of Internship
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Hospital
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Length of Internship
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13 months
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Start Date
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Mid-Late July 2025
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Key Benefits
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- Sick pay
- Benefit in kind - accommodation
- Pension scheme
- External CPD provision
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Valley Equine Hospital is looking for 2 highly enthusiastic and hard working new/recent veterinary graduates for our 13-month rotating internship. The programme is designed to produce highly competent and confident veterinarians, ready to pursue any path in equine practice.
Interns are integral to the day-to-day operations of the practice, and have a significant clinical responsibility for all cases from the outset. There is a handover period of 4-6 weeks with the outgoing interns, which is invaluable for the incoming interns to familiarise themselves with all facets of our busy hospital.
Mentoring of interns is led predominantly by our 2 in-house surgeons, accompanied by our 6 ambulatory vets, experienced nursing team and other boarded specialists in surgery, medicine, diagnostic imaging and anaesthesia from the wider CVS hospital network.
The hospital caseload that interns are exposed to is predominantly elective surgical cases, emergency referrals and sports medicine cases. Interns are responsible for anaesthesia, and receive specialised training for this both in-house and from an external boarded equine anaesthesiologist.
The on-call rota is 1 in 2, with interns gaining vital experience in primary management of all emergency cases. Accommodation is provided on site in a large 5 bedroom house overlooking the practice.
Interns benefit from the structured CVS New Graduate Scheme for CPD provision as well as VetGDP support from our in-house team.
About the practice
Valley Equine Hospital is in Lambourn, Berkshire. We see predominantly Thoroughbred horses in training and professional sports horses, with a smaller case load of leisure horses.
We are an RCVS accredited referral hospital, with a long standing internship programme graduating interns into all walks of equine life. We have stabling for up to 20 horses, with a separate isolation unit and bone scan barn. We have the Hallmarq standing distal limb CT scanner, as well as facilities to perform nuclear scintigraphy, radiography, ultrasonography, overground/dynamic endoscopy, resting endoscopy and gastroscopy.
Our practice has RCVS Hospital Tier Status.
How to apply
For further information about the internship programme, please contact Tom at tom.mcparland@veh.uk.com. You will need to supply:
• Curriculum vitae (CV)
• Letter of intent
• Two references
Candidates do not have to have visited VEH to apply. All candidates who are short listed are offered to the chance to visit the hospital and meet the team, including the current interns. The applicant should be eligible for registration with the RCVS and eligible to work in the UK - regrettably, we are not able to offer sponsored visas for this role.
More information about our internship and hospital can be found on our Internship Information page on our website.