Guidance

Government Veterinary Services workforce strategy, 2019 to 2022

This strategy outlines the Government Veterinary Services (GVS) profession workforce strategy for 2019 to 2022.

From:
Government Veterinary Services
Published
10 June 2020
Last updated
23 June 2020 — See all updates

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The Government Veterinary Services (GVS) profession includes a wide variety of roles and specialisms and is spread across geographically diverse UK locations. It is made up of government vets with a background and formal veterinary education, who work in a range of specialist, deep specialist, policy, analytical and operational roles.

The GVS profession workforce strategy outlines 3 key priorities for 2019 to 2022:

  • attract and retain talented individuals to the GVS profession
  • improve the skills and capability of GVS professionals across government to enable progression to Senior Civil Service level
  • improve learning and development opportunities for GVS professionals across government

Updates to this page

Published 10 June 2020
Last updated 23 June 2020 + show all updates

  1. Updated annex B: grades of vets by organisation.

  2. First published.

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