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Veterinary Surgeon
Location: 40-44 Brighton Road, Surbiton, Kingston, Surrey Practice: Vet4Life Surbiton Salary: £70,000 per annum, Up to, depending on experience Practice Details
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We are seeking an experienced full-time vet for a fixed-term maternity cover to join our team of 11 veterinary surgeons.
Location:
Vet 4 Life Surbiton: 40-44 Brighton Road, Surbiton, KT6 5PL
Vet 4 Life Teddington: 160 High Street, Teddington, TW11 8HZ
Vet 4 Life Shepperton: 7 Station Approach, Shepperton, TW17 8AR
Hours: Full time (38.3)
Your role and responsibilities
Applicants must have experience in working within a small animal veterinary practice, should be able to work well within a team, demonstrate leadership skills, and be able to focus on maintaining high levels of both patient and client care. You will be self-motivated with a positive attitude and have a warm and compassionate approach to our team, patients, and clients.
· Teamwork: Working within the team, to contribute your skills, efforts, and personal strengths to help ensure a harmonious team ethos
· Patient care: Providing exceptional levels of patient care.
· Client care: Providing exceptional levels of client service.
Rota
We are committed to maintaining a good work life balance. Hours include a 4-day week alternating between a week of early shifts (8:00 am – 5:30 pm) and late shifts (10:00 am – 7:30 pm) with 1 in 4 Saturdays (9:00 am – 5:00 pm) and 1 in 12 Sundays (10:00 am – 4:00 pm).
Benefits
· 5 weeks annual leave + bank holidays + an additional day off for your birthday
· Career development through the Linnaeus Veterinary Careers Framework, £1500 (not including VAT) + 5 days external CPD allowance, certificates encouraged, extensive free, Linnaeus provided, internal CPD and resources (i.e. Mars Veterinary Health Library with 2,000+ journals, 600+ textbooks and much more!)
· No OOH or overnight inpatient care which is managed externally by Vets Now
· Employer pension contribution
· RCVS and VDS fees paid for
· Staff discount
· 4 day working week with 1 in 4 Saturdays and 1 in 12 Sundays
· Enhanced sick pay.
· Life assurance
· Discounted gym membership at PureGym
· Enhanced equal family leave.
· Wellness program including employee assistance programme, eyecare voucher scheme, free annual flu jab and cycle-to-work scheme.
· E-car salary sacrifice scheme.
About us
Vet 4 Life is progressive and forward-thinking. We believe in supporting and investing in our staff, investing in our facilities, and ensuring that our clients and their pets receive only the very best, modern, first opinion care.
Our staff are friendly, experienced, and motivated, with career progression across all levels of employment encouraged by additional certifications. We are looking for people who share our vision and our culture.
Vet 4 Life is in the heart of the community. Each branch is settled amongst local businesses, cafes and restaurants, where we serve an established and loyal client base in the heart of the community. Public transport links are available at all branches.
Vet 4 Life is modern and well-equipped with on-site surgical, diagnostic, and dental facilities. Equipment includes digital x-ray, digital dental x-ray, endoscopes, laparoscopes, colour flow doppler ultrasound, k-laser, orthopaedic kit, tonopens and excellent in-house laboratory equipment; just to name a few! This will allow you every opportunity to work up and treat cases to your full potential.
We have numerous certificate holders in both medicine and surgery allowing you the opportunity to share knowledge and further develop your skills.
Our consultations run by appointment, with a minimum of fifteen minutes allocated per pet.
Vet 4 Life is silver accredited in the investors in the environment awards scheme, have GP status with the RCVS practice standards scheme and are cat friendly accredited. We are working towards practice standards scheme awards as well as dog friendly accreditation schemes.
We are a nurse training practice and have a graduate training program to support the next generation of vets and nurses.
We have approximately 40 staff members across our 3 sites and are very proud of our achievements and our reputation in the veterinary profession.
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]