• GP - Veterinary Surgeon

    Location: Savile Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire Hours: Full time, Part time Practice: Calder Vets Dewsbury Salary: £60,000 FTE per annum, Up to and depending on experience Practice Details Calder Vets Dewsbury

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Job Title: GP - Veterinary Surgeon

Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum FTE (dependent on experience)

Location: Calder Vets (Wakefield)

Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time (Part-Time applications welcome)

Hours: 3 days per week (7.45 am-8.15 pm) Mon-Weds plus 1 in 4 weekends. (Opportunity to be full-time if preferred).

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Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a Vet with an interest in medicine and inpatient care to support the continuity of care for our hospitalised patients. This involves examination, making care plans and communicating with clients, as well as liaising with other vets in the team when imaging, investigative or surgical procedures are required. This role would possibly suit a recent graduate with an interest in medicine as it creates an opportunity for development with the support of more experienced colleagues. A key part of the role is also overseeing the handover of patient care to the night team. The role may also involve seeing some emergencies if required.

Benefits

  • 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave

  • RCVS & VDS fees paid

  • External CPD funded

  • Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program

  • Career progression opportunities

  • Staff discount schemes

  • Life Assurance

  • Enhanced sickness pay

  • Enhanced equal family leave

  • E-car salary sacrifice scheme

  • Employer contribution pension scheme

  • Wellness program including:

    • Employee assistance program

    • Eyecare voucher scheme

    • Free annual Flu jab

    • Cycle to work scheme

  • Recruitment referral reward scheme

Associates. We have an amazing team of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our practices and central support office in addition to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available for everyone.

About us

Calder Vets Dewsbury is a 24/7 Tier 3 Veterinary Hospital. We welcome referrals from across Yorkshire and we are proud to provide our own 24-hour on-site emergency care through our dedicated ECC night team. We offer a high-quality primary care service, including consultations, preventative healthcare, vaccinations, routine, non-routine and laparoscopic surgery, dentistry, and imaging (x-ray, ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, visiting MRI). We are also able to offer middle-tier referrals in soft tissue and orthopaedic surgery, ophthalmology, exotics and dermatology and we have our own state-of-the-art rehabilitation centre with physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, and laser therapy.

We have a fantastic team across all 11 of our sites, and we all support each other. We often discuss clinical cases and get involved in social events. We have a large Vet team and are supported by experienced and dedicated nursing and front of house teams. 6 of our Vets are working towards certificates in Surgery, Imaging, Dermatology, Medicine, ECC and Ophthalmology.

Our ethos is clinical excellence, and we try and live by our Core Values. Client and patient care is at the heart of what we do, and we are proud to be a Cat-Friendly Clinic. We run on 15-minute consults as a minimum. Together, we are working towards becoming accredited as Investors in the Environment at Bronze level. Some things to know about us:

- Our ethos is clinical excellence
- Client and patient care are at the heart of what we do
- We are committed to supporting each other
- We prioritise mental health and wellbeing with a team of trained Mental Health First Aiders in the practice.

If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with Vicky.Tanday@linnaeusgroup.co.uk

Part of an amazing global family

Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.

Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.

Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates.

If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]

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