Permanent Veterinary Surgeon
Vet Seekers
- Widnes, Cheshire
- £63,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Are you a qualified and RCVS registered veterinary surgeon or soon to be?
- Are you looking for a new opportunity in Cheshire?
- Type: Small animal
- Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week over 4.5 days
- Weekends: 1 in 3 Saturday mornings, 9am to 12pm
- TOIL: Half day on Friday after working a Saturday
- Sole charge: None
- OOH: None
- On-call: None
- Branch work: N/A
- Computer system: Merlin
- Team: 7 vets, 7 RVNs and a supportive non-clinical team
- The role offers a varied caseload with a mixture of consultations and surgeries
- The role offers no OOH or on-call, ensuring a healthy work-life balance
- The position offers the opportunity to provide mentoring and coaching to other vets within the practice
- The practice is home to 7 vets, 7 RVNs and a supportive non-clinical team
- They offer a wide range of modern veterinary services and diagnostics, including digital x-ray, ultrasound, 6 consult rooms, 2 theatres, an in-house laboratory and separate cat and dog wards
- They have the facilities and caseload to support clinical development
- They have a supportive and friendly team
- They can offer support for areas of special interest, along with funding for certificates
- They offer a great bonus package in addition to salary
- Two of their vets are certificate holders
- They understand the importance of the roles that RVNs play within the practice and actively encourage the development of skills and knowledge whereby the nurses offer nurse clinics where they can advise and educate clients and use their own initiative whilst assisting the vets
- They pride themselves on a supportive team culture and they value each and everyone's roles within the practice
- They understand the difficulties that the vet industry can face and support each other to provide a positive and encouraging work environment
- Investing in their people, premises and processes is at the heart of what they do
- You will have a good level of experience both in medicine and surgery
- You will have excellent communications skills and client facing skills
- You will have a positive attitude and show empathy to both clients and team members
- You will encourage ongoing development of the team
- You will be a team player and be able to work in a collaborative manner
- You will be confident in all areas of first opinion practice
- You will have a certificate or be interested in pursuing one
- Salary: Up to £63,000 per annum, commensurate to experience
- Holidays: Generous annual leave, increasing with service and birthday off
- CPD: Generous allowance
- Memberships: RCVS, VDS and BVA fees paid
- Relocation support
- Medical insurance
- Workplace pension
- Family friendly policies
- Employee wellbeing programmes
- Ongoing learning and development platforms available
- RCVS registered and qualified or soon to be
- Possess the right to work in the United Kingdom
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills