Up to £75,000 DOE, Welcome Bonus up to £5,000 plus Relocation Allowance up to £5,000.
We have a unique opportunity for a Head Veterinary Surgeon to lead our dedicated first opinion team at Crown Vets in Inverness. We are a multi-site practice group, consisting of three first opinion sites and a referral centre, which hosts the Highlands’ first out of hours emergency clinic. The out of hours practice has a dedicated team, supported by the five user practices.
You will be leading the team, supporting them through clinical decisions, ensuring their days are balanced and they can get the most out of their role. We are committed to supporting our staff in realizing their potential. You will be supporting and mentoring colleagues to ensure we offer the best care to our patients and clients. Within the team, we have a wide variety of experience from graduates to certificate holders. You will assist the team to progress in their areas of interest, up to supporting them through certificate choices.
You will work alongside our Practice Director to set professional and clinical objectives and reach business performance goals. We are proud to offer the right candidate a dedicated progression pathway (Surgical and/or Medical), with plenty of exposure to enable you to further your career and fuel your passions.
Crown Vets is a reputable training practice; our team enjoys building up the skills and confidence of new graduate vets and working with local colleges to bring on RVNs. Testimonials from our own graduate vets have claimed that “Crown Vets offers excellent support to newly graduated vets. The practice benefits from a large, supportive and friendly team, enabling our graduates to develop to the best of their ability. Each graduate is given their own dedicated mentor, who is vetGDP trained, allowing for a smooth progression through the vetGDP programme. Support can be found from several vetGDP trained staff in the practice.” Many of the graduates we have supported have stayed on to gain skills through various certificates, developing their own practice and growing our multidisciplinary practice.
Our sites consist of our main branch in Crown itself where you will enjoy the hustle, bustle, and challenge of a busy day. At our Culloden and Canalside practices, you can enjoy sole charge consulting only and our recently launched dedicated OOH practice located within our Highland Vet Referrals site. We understand the special relationship that people have with their animals and are committed to providing the individual quality of care our clients deserve. We are in the fortunate position of creating an out of hours service that supports not only Crown Vets but other local practices. With the successful development of Highland Vet Emergencies, our practice team are free to workdays without the added pressure of nights and long weekend shifts.
We are fortunate to have a fantastic close-knit team who strive to create a positive working environment, maintaining a strong bond within. We have regular staff events, activities, and days out, but nothing brings us together like fundraising for our local community. Over the years we have raised over £12,000, completed a 24-hour kennel stay, a 12-hour bike-a-thon, and the world’s largest inflatable obstacle course. We have also raised funds to provide 50 pet oxygen masks to Highland fire stations, outdoor community accessible defibrillators at our 3 sites, and have created our own pet food bank to distribute throughout our local area.
Inverness is a city with good shopping, cafes, live music venues, restaurants, and bars. We have a theatre (Eden Court) which hosts musicals, plays, and ballet; and not forgetting the numerous outdoor music events during the summer. The Highlands are certainly the place to be for those with a passion for the outdoors - the scenery is second to none and there is endless opportunity for walking, wild swimming, camping, and paddle boarding! Inverness caters to families with an array of festivals and child-friendly events. There is a leisure centre and pool with waterslides, an ice skating rink, a climbing wall, many parks, and petting farms, to name a few! Many of the primary and high schools in the area have very good reputations and rankings in Scotland.
We recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises, and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from:
1. Work-life balance: 6.8 weeks annual leave, additional holiday entitlement for your birthday.
2. Wellbeing: Private medical insurance, enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay, cycle to work scheme, initiatives focused on employee wellbeing, non-accidental injury support.
3. Development: £1250 CPD allowance with 40 hours paid pro rata, certificate support, learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy, access to Vetlexicon - our online encyclopaedia provider, all our Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding, all our Vets get £1250 per annum to spend via our Care Fund, Infection Prevention and Control Programme, Quality Improvement Programme.
4. Professional Memberships: BVA membership, VDS cover, RCVS fees.
5. Additional: Pawsome Benefits - reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers, Pension - 5% Employee/3% Employer, discounted staff pet care.
Up to £75,000 DOE.
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