Hello everyone!
I am a qualified veterinary nurse looking into joining the reserves as a vet tech. I’ve had a trawl through the mod website and other platforms but I still have a few burning questions that I can’t find the answer to, I was hoping to find anybody in the RAVC to answer some questions and maybe share their experience?
1. The national unit is as far as I am aware Melton Mowbray, and that’s around 100miles from where I live, so it would be a long drive for me to do a days work. How long are the days and could I stay over in accommodation on site to do a couple of days at a time?
2. The other reserve jobs state that there is a 2 week annual training camp every year for reserves, it doesn’t mention this for vet techs, so do they not have one? And if they do is it a requirement to attend?
3.I see that vet tech reserves are trained as dog handlers, if called up for deployment would I be called as a vet tech or a dog handler?
Thank you
I am a qualified veterinary nurse looking into joining the reserves as a vet tech. I’ve had a trawl through the mod website and other platforms but I still have a few burning questions that I can’t find the answer to, I was hoping to find anybody in the RAVC to answer some questions and maybe share their experience?
1. The national unit is as far as I am aware Melton Mowbray, and that’s around 100miles from where I live, so it would be a long drive for me to do a days work. How long are the days and could I stay over in accommodation on site to do a couple of days at a time?
2. The other reserve jobs state that there is a 2 week annual training camp every year for reserves, it doesn’t mention this for vet techs, so do they not have one? And if they do is it a requirement to attend?
3.I see that vet tech reserves are trained as dog handlers, if called up for deployment would I be called as a vet tech or a dog handler?
Thank you