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Roving Vet - 4 days/week and no weekends. £70k
Location: Savile Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire Practice: Calder Vets Dewsbury Salary: £70,000 per annum, depending on experience Practice Details
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Job Title: Roving Veterinary Surgeon – No weekends, OOH - £70K
Salary: £70,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
Location: Calder Veterinary, Dewsbury Hospital
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: Four days a week, Monday to Friday only with no weekends or OOH
Your role and responsibilities
We are looking for an adaptable, experienced Roving Vet who loves the variety of Primary Care Practices to come and work amongst our clinics, with time at the main hospital to develop clinical interests. The position requires someone happy to work sole charge, as well as being comfortable in a hospital environment, who is confident and enjoys all elements of their work to include consulting, routine surgery and emergency case management. You would be provided with a rota at least 6 weeks in advance.
This is a unique opportunity to enjoy the flexibility of locum life with the benefits of being an employee. Days of work will vary but your rota will be available six weeks in advance to help you plan life outside work. This is a perfect opportunity for an experienced veterinary surgeon to work alongside the very dedicated and skilled Calder Vets team whilst still enjoying a great work life balance and a generous salary.
This is a fantastic role for an all-around Vet looking for a rewarding position. It would also suit someone who wants to explore the practices at Calder before taking a fixed role.
Our ethos is clinical excellence and we try and live by our core values. Client and patient care are at the heart of what we do, and we are proud to be Cat-Friendly in many of our clinics. We run on 15-minute consults as a minimum.
Calder Veterinary is a high-quality primary care and referral practice with 11 clinics across South and West Yorkshire, including a 24/7 Tier 3 Hospital. We are proud to provide our own 24-hour on-site emergency care through our dedicated ECC night team. We offer a full range of primary care services, such as consultations, preventative healthcare, vaccinations, routine and non-routine surgery, dentistry and imaging (x-ray, ultrasound). We are also able to offer some advanced services such as laparoscopy, endoscopy, soft tissue and orthopaedic surgeries, cardiology, ophthalmology and CT, and we have our own rehabilitation service with physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and laser therapy.
We have a fantastic team across all 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 fantastic nursing and front of house teams. Many of our vets are working towards certificates in surgery, imaging, dermatology, cardiology and ophthalmology.
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
The Dewsbury hospital is purpose built and includes the following:
- Attractive building with good client parking and large client bases
- Large waiting room with separate cat/dog areas
- Friendly well established team
- Comfortable, spacious staff rest area
- Air conditioned consulting rooms
- 15 minute consults minimum
- Silver Cat Friendly
- Fully equipped theatres
- Xray, good quality ultrasound scanner and CT on site. Visiting MRI
- Dental area with X-ray
- Middle tier referrals seen on site – dermatology, surgery and opthalmology
Calder has a long established reputation for clinical excellence and are looking for a colleague who would share in our core values. We are also a friendly, welcoming, supportive team who enjoy bringing fun into the workplace; we have a dedicated Champions Team who organise regular events. We are strong advocates for wellbeing at work with trained mental health advisors available on site and we firmly believe that all associates should have a voice within the company. We believe that sustainability is an important part of our future and we have just been awarded Investors in the Environment Bronze Award.
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]
