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Veterinary Surgeon
Location: 491 Kettering Road, Northampton Practice: Spinney Vets Northampton Salary: £64,000 (pro-rata) per annum, depending on experience Practice Details
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Job Title: Veterinary Surgeon
Salary: Up to £64,000 (£40,000 pro-rata) - dependent upon experience
Plus: Relocation allowance available – up to £4,000
Location: Spinney Vets, Northampton
Job Type: Permanent, Part-time
Hours: 25 hours per week, 2:8 Saturdays (08:30-17:00 consults only), no OOH.
Are you an experienced Vet looking to join an experienced and progressive team?
Are you a Vet looking to join a well-supported practice with the ability to work cases up to a high standard?
Your responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be experienced and confident in both general surgery and medicine with exceptional communication skills. Someone who is friendly and keen to be part of a great team is essential. We actively encourage all of our associates to take CPD in their chosen area and we have lead nurses now developing the nursing roles in the team which is something we are extremely proud of. For all your hard work, we offer generous time off following in patient duties.
You will be working with our team of well-established Vets, Nurses, Customer Care team and Patient Care Assistants. Spinneys Vets has two large branches, both RCVS GP accredited which are both well equipped. We have certificate holders in Surgery with other vets training towards certificates in medicine and exotic. We perform Orthopaedics, endoscopy, laparoscopy, more complex common routine soft tissue surgical procedures including BOAS. We have vets with special interest in dentistry, rabbit medicine, ophthalmology and dermatology. As a team we are always happy to collaborate with each other with complicated cases or support a colleague should they want to progress more in a certain role. We have all of the usual equipment including Doppler ultrasound, digital x-ray including dental x-ray, endoscopy, monitoring equipment and in-house lab.
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
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
- Wellness program including:
- Employee assistance program
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Free annual Flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme
About Us
Northampton is a large town with great road and rail links to both London and Birmingham within one hour. Beautiful countryside on the doorstep and the town is surrounded by pretty villages with an abundance of country parks and pleasant places for dog walking, running, hiking or cycling. There is also a wide range of pubs and restaurants in the local area too.
Join our friendly, experienced, supportive and dedicated vet team at Spinney Vets. We provide an excellent rota which gives our associates a great work/life balance to explore the fabulous countryside around the historic town.
Spinney 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
