Senior Veterinary Surgeon

White Cross Vets, Newton Hyde

Up to £70,000 depending on experience, up to £5,000 relocation support, plus benefits

There’s no better time to join our talented team!

Our senior vet has decided to take a fantastic opportunity in Singapore, so we are looking to fill her role with a full time senior veterinary surgeon. 

As one of the top employers in the UK, we offer candidates an excellent package with the opportunity to enjoy a superb work/life balance. The working pattern is 4 days per week with a share of Saturday mornings, with time given back in lieu. We offer no OOH and a competitive salary.

Duties include providing high quality clinical care to all pets and an outstanding client experience whilst helping to create and maintain an efficient clinic. This role would suit a clinically experienced vet, with any special interests a benefit, who is wanting to progress and help to manage and support the clinical team alongside the Clinic Director and current management structure.

About White Cross Vets

At White Cross Vets, we have 21 clinics across the UK. All of our clinics have teams with different interests, with team members undergoing or having undergone further training by certificate. Being part of a bigger group offers a fantastic level of support and allows us to grow and develop a higher quality first opinion pet care, whilst providing internal career progression opportunities. 

Our veterinary team enjoy all aspects of general veterinary practice and have a wealth of experience. Currently we are a four vet practice. Our Clinic Director has an internal medicine certificate and loves to tackle all aspect of soft tissue surgery. One of our other vets has a keen interest in exotic pets and has started an exotic certificate this year. The team are extremely passionate about providing a gold standard first opinion service.

The Hyde practice has a close link with our Walkden clinic with the Clinic Director at Hyde also being the Clinic Director at Walkden and this increases the services we can offer even further. At Walkden we have a vet currently undertaking a surgical certificate and also an Advanced Practitioner with an interest in Dermatology.

Further to this the Hyde practice has a strong nursing team with anaesthetic certificate holders, surgical certificate holders and a nurse with a keen interest in diagnostic imaging.

The Hyde practice has great facilities including 4 consult rooms, cat ward, dog ward, operating theatre, digital x-ray, dental x-ray, full in-house laboratory, ultrasound and access to endoscope if needed.

About our team

One of the best parts of working at Hyde is the enthusiastic team who work closely together. We love to bond over our shared love of food with regular meals out together, along with regularly partaking in some serious competition with the local pub quiz and “Breakout” rooms. There are also some very active members of the team, who join forces in training for 10k’s and our weekly Fitbit challenge.

What you’ll bring

It’s important that the successful candidate has the following skills/attributes:
•    Drive to work towards clinical excellence within first opinion practice
•    Passion for small animal medicine
•    Confidence in making strong clinical recommendations and being able to coach less experienced team members in making these
•    Confidence in supporting less experienced team members with further medical work ups, which will arise from clinical recommendations
•    Leadership qualities to enable successful support of less experienced team members
•    Quality: the desire to provide a high standard of veterinary medicine, to the pets under our care
•    Integrity: working with the clinical team to drive the strong White Cross principles that the group adheres to, in an honest manner
•    Responsibility; to the pets under our care, making strong and confident clinical recommendations with the support of the team and the White Cross group
•    Growth: to be passionate in wanting to progress your clinical knowledge and skill development, which in turn contributes to the growth of the practice and the clinical team
•    RCVS registered

Because our employee's matter

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:

Work-life balance
•    7 weeks annual leave including bank holidays
•    Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service
•    Your birthday as a paid day off

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

Development
•    £1,500 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 £1000 per annum to spend via our Care Fund
•    Infection Prevention and Control Programme
•    Quality Improvement Programme

Professional Memberships
•    BVA membership
•    VDS cover
•    RCVS fees 

Additional
•    Pawsome Benefits – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
•    Pension – 5% Employee/3% Employer
•    Discounted staff pet care

As a BAME and LGBTQ+ inclusive employer, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

For a confidential chat or to discuss this role in more detail, please contact Marcus Alphonso, Talent Partner, on marcus.alphonso@ivcevidensia.com / 07977242350. Reference BH12021.