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Mixed Veterinary Surgeon
Location: Greenside Farm, St Boswells, Melrose Practice: Greenside Veterinary Practice St Boswells Salary: £60,000 per annum, depending on experience Practice Details
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Job Title: Mixed Veterinary Surgeon
Salary: £40,000 - £60,000 (dependent on experience)
Location: St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Job Type: Permanent, full-time position
Hours: Full time rota; 4 days per week (36hrs) and 1in5 OOH cover.
We have an exciting Veterinary Surgeon Opportunity here at Greenside Veterinary Practice, St Boswells, Scottish Borders. We welcome discussions regarding the ideal rota for you with flexibility with rota/shifts/OOH.
Your role and responsibilities
This is an opportunity for a vet to join our friendly and supportive practice as a mixed vet. At Greenside, we pride ourselves on providing good work: life balance along with lots of on-the-job support for our colleagues. We take a fair share of ops, consulting and farm work but with preferences and special interests well understood and encouraged. We have a very open and honest management style and encourage regular feedback from our associates to get the very best working environment for everyone.
The right candidate for the role will be a confident, friendly mixed animal veterinary surgeon with good communication skills who enjoys working in a supportive team environment.
Greenside Vets is a mixed practice with a solid farm base (no equine) and a quality companion animal component. Our main site is well equipped including; DR x-ray, new ultrasound, dental x-ray, bronchoscopy, gastroscopy, and multi-parameters. We have a growing orthopaedic caseload and perform some advanced soft tissue procedures in house too. We have on-site facilities for large animal surgery and hospitalisation of small ruminants/calves.
We also work alongside a full team of veterinary surgeons, nurses and physiotherapists who provide a referral level regenerative medicine and rehabilitation service with facilities including a hydrotherapy underwater treadmill. This is the only one of its kind in Scotland and presents a huge opportunity to our clients and their pets.
Our out of hours work is well supported with a dedicated nurse on call with the vet to assist where required. Our nurses expect to be called in! We have no routine weekend consulting and we give you Friday off after your weekend on call.
Benefits
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
- RCVS & VDS fees paid
- CPD allowance and 4 days each year to attend events plus Linnaeus CPD Programme (including certificate holder level CPD)
- 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
- Wellness program including:
- Employee assistance program
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Free annual Flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
Greenside Vets is part of Linnaeus and Mars Veterinary Health, the largest family-owned veterinary company in the world. Being privately owned, we can truly be driven by our purpose, to create a better world, and think long-term as opposed to being focused solely on short-term profits.
At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people. Our Associates are over 6000 strong and empowered to speak up, step up and deliver quality services. You’ll have access to a huge network of specialists, worldwide development opportunities and an easily accessible, comprehensive wellbeing package that prioritises your physical and mental health, allowing you to focus on what you do best – care for pets.
We are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse, we care about you and want you to be authentic, with everything you need to perform at your best. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to achieve our purpose.
If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with Paige in the recruitment team paige.lyne@linnaeusgroup.co.uk
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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 careers@linnaeusgroup.co.uk
