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Veterinary Technologist
OFO Code: 324103
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 324103
- Occupation
- Veterinary Technologist
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3241 · Veterinary Technicians and Assistants
Official description
Veterinary technicians and assistants carry out advisory, diagnostic, preventive and curative veterinary tasks, more limited in scope and complexity than those carried out by, and with the guidance of, veterinarians. They care for animals under treatment and in temporary residence at veterinary facilities, perform routine procedures and assist veterinarians to perform procedures and operations.
More official OFO detail
- Treating ill or injured animals, especially for common diseases and disorders
- Placing animals in cages for recovery from operations and monitoring their condition
- Cleaning and sterilising examination tables and instruments and preparing materials used in the examination and treatment of animals
- Assisting veterinarians to administer anaesthetics and oxygen during treatment
- Performing routine animal dental procedures and assisting veterinarians with animal dentistry
- Conducting examinations of animals to make diagnoses or refer more difficult cases to veterinarians when needed
- Producing radiographs, collecting samples, and performing other laboratory tests to assist in diagnosis of animal health problems
- Getting animals ready for examination or treatment and restraining or holding them during treatment
- Carrying out technical tasks connected with artificial insemination of animals
- Advising communities and individuals on the treatment of animals and their diseases and injuries
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.