What’s in it for me?

We want to provide a highly accessible, comprehensive hub for non-clinical education and resources that are easy to find, afford, trust and use, regardless of your career stage, location, role or experience.


Building industry-wide capability and public understanding delivers positive outcomes for everyone.

What's in it for you?

Veterinarians and Nurses

  • Empowerment through improved self-awareness and capabilities, so that  practice is less stressful; career progression more possible; life choices more aligned and sustainable; and engagement and satisfaction greater.
  • Improved sense of value and sustained purpose and development within more collaborative cultures.

Managers

  • Knowledge, skills and capabilities to better lead and manage a more engaged, collaborative and aligned workplace, resulting in lower personal stress; greater staff retention; easier recruitment; fewer accidents; less presenteeism and absenteeism = sustained productivity
  • Improved workplace culture through better HR, systems and processes

Practice Owners
/ Shareholders

  • Increased profits from inventory sales profits, lower staff turnover, and improved efficiency, quality and productivity KPIs.
  • Reduced stress from making well-informed, more confident business decisions.
  • Improved Corporate Social Responsibility

Drug / Product Wholesalers
and Manufacturers

  • Sustainable veterinary market.
  • Improved Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • More positive veterinary environment to retain and help sales staff thrive

Public and Animals

  • Sustainable veterinary service from flourishing staff.
  • Improved satisfaction and lower stress through better managed expectations and improved communication

Service Providers incl. Charities,
AVA, CVE, Consultancies etc.

  • Broader reach and impact
  • Increased profit.

Professional Associations

  • Improved reputation and perceived membership value through visible collaboration, resource links and potentially funded programs.

Regulatory Bodies

  • Fewer complaints due to improved practitioner capabilities, and more vets to meet public/animal needs
  • Improved professional standards due to sustained career engagement = continued learning and shared knowledge
  • Fewer Fitness to Practice concerns; reduced mental or emotional problems and linked substance dependency, through improved public understanding, personal capabilities, and work systems and culture.
  • Less vet attrition = higher registration revenue.

A virtual lolly-shop of learning and a strategic smorgasbord of resources and connection opportunities,  SVC makes it easy to explore the puzzle pieces for the picture you’d like to create.

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Primary & Secondary Interventions

Primary Interventions

Primary interventions are aimed at reducing or eliminating stressors in the workplace. This could include things like varying the physical conditions of the workplace, redesigning jobs, changing workplace structure, and implementing flexible work practices. Training in problem solving, cognitive reappraisal, increasing self-esteem and locus of control may also help. 

Secondary Interventions

Secondary interventions focus on peoples’ response to stressors and may include stress management training, nutrition advice, relaxation exercises, and exercise programs. Other programs suggested here are negotiation training, conflict resolution skills, and training in CBT. Supervisor support may also buffer the effects of stress.

Tertiary Interventions

Tertiary interventions are directed at symptoms, focusing on coping strategies. Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)are now being seen with more frequency in Australian workplaces – either as an in-house service or an outsourced provider.

Occupational health research demonstrates that primary interventions, which focus more on prevention and take a systems approach across an entire organisation, tend to be most effective for stress management, followed by secondary interventions and then tertiary interventions. This finding supports the common-sense philosophy that it is better to prevent problems than to attempt to resolve them.