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Lead Veterinary Surgeon
Location: Station Road, Lydd, Kent Practice: Cinque Ports Lydd Salary: £70,000 per annum, Up to and dependent on experience Practice Details
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Job Title: Lead Veterinary Surgeon
Salary: Up to £70,000 (D.O.E.)
Location: Cinque Ports Vets, Kent and East Sussex
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week over 4 days, 1 in 5 Saturday rota, no OOH. Part-time applicants welcomed.
Lead Vet opportunity at Cinque Ports Vets across Kent & East Sussex!
Just another job advert… Just another practice looking for a Lead Vet… Just the same old promises… But we aren’t the same and we are not looking for JUST a Vet!
Did we mention our amazing refurbishment including a second theatre, dedicated dentistry room and new client care area.
Cinque Ports is not just another vet practice, we are a group of practices that has a role to fit every vet. Whether in our busy hospital as a surgeon or in one of our branch practices where everyone knows your name and you know your clients on a first name basis, we are a practice that is proud of what we do and who we are. We are ok with change and embrace it as a team!
The Lead Veterinary Surgeon role is key to the team's success. You will be leading and working alongside a full clinical team of vets, nurses, and receptionists across all practices, aiming to provide the highest standards of care while, maximising convenience, reducing customer effort and bond clients to the Practice.
The Lead Veterinary Surgeon is responsible for managing the clinical activities of the Vets and acts as the first line of management, developing the team to optimise uptake of clinical services.
In the Lead Veterinary Surgeon role, you will work closely with and support the Clinical Director to provide leadership, coordination, appropriate training, and development to the team. You will also need to take part in the day-to-day organisation of the team, responding to requests for unplanned absence cover.
When you're not deputising, you'll undertake duties of a vet. A surgical certificate would be desirable, however, not essential. We encourage and support certificate study if desired.
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
- Annual Flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
About us
Cinque Ports is an RCVS-Accredited Practice with extensive surgical, diagnostic, and medical facilities across 6 sites in the Kent/ East Sussex area. The hospital at Kingsnorth is an RCVS-Accredited Hospital and has Gold ISFM Accreditation and provides emergency care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with VetsNow onsite providing continuity in cases and patient care. We offer keyhole surgery, laser therapy, and acupuncture treatments. You will be supported by a full and experienced team of Registered Veterinary Nurses (RVN), that carry out both nurse consults and vaccinations.
We are excellently equipped including inhouse lab, ECG, Endoscopy, ultrasound, radiography, separate dental room for all procedures dentistry x-ray, separate client care area, digital radiography, doppler ultrasonography, in-house laboratory, laparoscopic equipment and video endoscope and bronchoscope.
Our experienced team hold a wealth of knowledge and have interests in surgery, radiography, anaesthesia, feline behaviour, dentistry, we have visiting referral ophthalmologist, and feline medicine specialist.
We use team steps, which enable us to minimise communication errors within the teams here a Cinques Ports. We are a very sociable team and actively encourage team get togethers including bowling, nights, and days out, and Christmas parties are not to be missed.
The village of Kingsnorth has an interesting and historical background featured in the Domesday Book of 1086. Part of the village is a designated conservation area making it a mixed rural and urban village with excellent local facilities and supporting infrastructure. With easy access to Ashford, Kingsnorth is an idyllic village location for those who need to travel locally or commute to London/Europe on a regular basis.
We are proud that Cinque Ports are working towards their Bronze accreditation from Investors in the Environment (iiE).
At Linnaeus, we are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our 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.
To apply, find out more information or arrange a confidential chat contact Lissa on lissa.semerdak@linnaeusgroup.co.uk or call 07523268918.
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]
