Permanent Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon - Preston
Type: Small Animal
Location: Preston, Lancashire
Practice Type: Independent mixed animal practice - They are a busy mixed practice providing veterinary services to companion animals, farm animals, and equines in Lancashire.
Facilities/Services:
* Their purpose-built practice is bright and spacious, with heating and air conditioning to provide a pleasant work environment.
* They have a varied caseload both medical and surgical, with excellent facilities including 7 consult rooms, a dedicated bereavement room, 2 operating theatres, a separate dental suite with dental x-ray, brand new ultrasound machine, digital x-ray, endoscopy, 5 patient wards, hydrotherapy, stance analyser, and class IV laser.
* They provide a supportive workplace to all staff, especially new graduates, with several senior vets as GDP mentors actively assisting new graduate progression, and a clinical director or senior vet available 24 hours a day for advice or help if required.
Team: Their large team is friendly and caring, providing gold-standard treatment to patients. They have a great mixture of experienced vets as well as more recently qualified vets.
Role: An exciting opportunity has arisen for two small animal vets to join our clients' team due to expansion. They are a proudly independent practice consisting of a large team of friendly and supportive vets, nurses, and receptionists, working in a purpose-built RCVS status hospital with two branch practices.
Hours: Full-time, rota to be discussed in the interview.
Weekends: 1 in 4 weekends, always backed by an experienced director.
OOHS: They provide their own out-of-hours cover, which provides clients and patients with seamless care, allowing their vets to tackle some more exciting emergency and critical care cases. The OOH rota is equally split between 8 vets with a separate ‘backup’ rota ensuring an experienced vet is always available for support as a second on-call.
Consults: Their consultation slots are a minimum of 15 minutes, with sufficient breaks between blocks to catch up on admin and/or brew breaks.
Skills/Experience: They are currently looking for 2 vets with at least 2 years of experience (or having completed their vet GDP portfolio) to join their team.
Salary: They offer a generous salary that is reflective of skills and experience - for example, a New Grad would start from £37,722 pa rising generously with experience.
The Package:
* Regular lunchtime wellness exercise sessions to promote positivity and wellbeing.
* 5 annual CPD days.
* Social events from nights out to charity events such as walking the 3 peaks!
* Generous lieu time given for any out-of-hours shifts worked.
* Accommodation is available for a 3-month period to help with the relocation period if required.
* 32 days annual leave.
Ref: JN -102024-32041
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