• Veterinary Surgeon

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

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Job Title: Veterinary Surgeon

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

Location: Calder Vets

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

Hours: 40hrs FTE (No out of hours)

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for veterinary surgeons to work in our multi-site RCVS accredited practice. The role can be adapted to suit and could include surgery, consulting, or medical work as desired.  

We see a great deal of interesting cases alongside routine work and there are opportunities for development and leadership if desired. As a large team we have a wide variety of experience in house and via external network to offer you tailored support or case discussion.

The practice is very well equipped with high quality equipment including CT scanner, in house lab and top of the range ultrasound and radiography.

The main hospital has a dedicated-on site OOH team, so no nights required and is the central hub to seven smaller external clinics. We are ideally looking for FT but PT would be considered. Weekends are one-in-four days only.
 

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 main site 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

All sites are cat, dog and rabbit friendly and have a well-established friendly team. They are all equipped with blood machines, ultra-sound and good first opinion kit.


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]

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