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Lead Veterinary Surgeon (Oakhill, London)
Location: Oakhill Veterinary Surgery, 97-99 Oakhill, Woodford Green, Essex Practice: Palmerston Veterinary Group Oakhill Veterinary Surgery Salary: £65,000 per annum, Up to, depending on experience Practice Details
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Due to anticipated growth, we are delighted to be able to offer a new position for a Lead Veterinary surgeon at our Oakhill practice, North East London.
No OOH.
No on call.
No Sundays.
Flexible rota.
We are looking for an experienced, dedicated veterinary surgeon, who strives to provide the best level of care for all our patients and their owners. This role may also be suitable for someone looking to progress in their career into a leadership position within clinical practice.
The role would initially be sole charge. When the successful candidate continues to grow and develop the practice, the intention is to then recruit a second (full time) vet and make this into a thriving, 2-vet practice.
You should enjoy the challenge of developing and growing the practice, who already have a loyal, trusting and committed client base. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate confidently with associates at all levels, which is important to us.
You will be able to prioritise your work based on clinical priority and importance. The successful applicant can expect to work in a happy and supportive environment, with our dedicated experienced nurses, patient care team right through to our client care team.
Your role and responsibilities will be to:
- Work alongside the Clinical Director to ensure standards are upheld, with the highest level of clinical care is provided to patients.
- Mixture of general practice consultation and surgery work throughout the week. Protected administration time also.
- Ensure growth and development of the practice.
- Exhibit strong client care skills showing professionalism and empathy
- To work alongside and delegate tasks as required with other clinical and support staff.
Hours: 40 hours a week.
Benefits include:
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
- No on call or out of hours
- No Sundays
- Protected administration time weekly
- RCVS and 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
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free annual Flu jab
- Eyecare voucher scheme.
About us
Our Oakhill Surgery provides their clients with essential services, such as routine operations, radiographs, dental treatment, day patient care, nutritional support and weight clinics. Palmerston Veterinary Group are proud to have joined the Linnaeus group, we have maintained our core values of prioritising patient care and giving our vets clinical freedom.
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.
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]
