official veterinarian
Code 2250.7
Official veterinarians are professionals with a comprehensive scientific education. They have the authority to carry out, in an independent, ethical and personally responsible capacity all veterinary activities with particular focus on the health and welfare of animals and public health in accordance with national and international legislation. They are responsible for national animal disease eradication programmes, the protection of public health and food or animal inspection, animal movements, and import and export of live animals and their products.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- SNOMED
- anatomy of animals
- animal welfare
- biosecurity related to animals
- veterinary clinical sciences
- animal behaviour
- animal production science
- physiology of animals
- fundamental veterinary sciences
- conduct ante-mortem veterinary health inspection
- animal welfare legislation
- safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- signs of animal illness
Skills and competences
- evaluate information in the field of veterinary nursing
- apply veterinary epidemiology
- apply animal hygiene practices
- certify the performance of veterinary procedures
- comply with veterinary inspection standards
- develop media strategy
- assess animal's condition
- issue certificates for animal products
- maintain veterinary clinical records
- perform inspection analysis
- perform veterinary diagnosis
- perform laboratory testing on samples of animals
- perform inspections of food-processing plants
- regulate animal health standards
- make decisions regarding the animal's welfare
- deal with challenging people
- monitor the welfare of animals
Transversal competences
- advise on animal welfare
- advise on livestock disease control
- develop zoonotic disease control policies
- manage animal biosecurity
- handle veterinary emergencies
- follow environmentally sustainable work practices in the veterinary sector
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences