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Linnaeus Lead Veterinary Surgeon in Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Job Title : Lead Veterinary Surgeon
Salary : From £65,000 per annum (salary dependent on experience) Welcome packages available
Location : Cromwell Vets, Cambridgeshire
Job Type : Permanent
Hours : 4 X 9 hour days per week plus 1 in 4 weekends. No nights. Part-time hours also considered.
We are expanding our team of Lead Veterinary Surgeons and looking for another experienced vet to help support and lead our fantastic veterinary team. This particular role will focus on our wonderful branches practices; St Neots, Ramsey, Sawtry, St Ives and Cambourne. Various working patterns across the branches can be considered and we would welcome ideas and discussions from experienced Vets who are keen to have a focus on different branch combinations. Each branch is set up for consults and routine surgery, and Sawtry is home to our state of the art rehabilitation centre.
This really is a great opportunity for someone wanting to nurture their own team within these sites, all with the support for the other Lead Vets, and Clinical Director at Huntingdon!
Our Lead Veterinary Surgeons are responsible for line management of the vet team, maintaining high standards of patient and client care and optimising the uptake of clinical services. The Lead Veterinary Surgeon will work closely with and assist the Clinical Director to provide leadership, training, and development of the vet team in addition to providing guidance and support to the nursing and client care team. The position will include half a day per week of protected non-clinical time to perform these additional responsibilities.
You will be joining a very welcoming team who all support each other. All of our associates are committed to the care of our clients and their pets, and we would love to hear from applicants who share the same values. The Cromwell Vets team have a range of passions and interests, we have two Advanced Practitioners in medicine and certificate holders in cardiology, dermatology and ECC.
Hours are full time over 4 days per week with a share of the weekend rota, currently 1 in 4.
Benefits
5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
RCVS & VDS fees paid
External CPD funded
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
Employer contribution pension scheme
Wellness program including:
Employee assistance program
Eyecare voucher scheme
Free annual Flu jab
Cycle to work scheme
Recruitment referral reward scheme
Welcome/relocation package available
About us
Cromwell Vets is a busy 24-hour first opinion small animal hospital with 5 branch surgeries and a state of the art rehabilitation centre. Our practice has been caring for pets for over 100 years and we pride ourselves on providing the very best contextualised care and service for our pets and their owners. Our tier 3 hospital has excellent facilities and equipment and hosts our dedicated out of hours service.
We have a fantastic, experienced and friendly clinical team with many certificate holders and we support and encourage CPD (including certificate study). We have all the equipment available to enable full work up of cases in house – digital radiography including dental radiography, advanced ultrasound machine with an extensive range of probes, video-endoscopy (gastroscope, bronchoscope and small rigid endoscopes), multi-parameter anaesthetic monitoring, tonometry, etc. We have just opened a new wing at our hospital with a state-of-the-art operating theatre, treatment rooms and a calm and spacious cat ward. We are also very proud of The Cromwell ARC – a purpose-built physiotherapy and hydrotherapy unit with underwater treadmill and K-Laser, run by our two qualified physiotherapists.
We are very fortunate that many of our staff have been part of ‘The Cromwell Family’ for many years and as a team, we are very caring and supportive of one another. Wellbeing is top of the agenda and important to us all – we encourage a better work life balance and have a fantastic team of wellbeing champions who organise regular events including baking competitions, Easter Egg hunts and bake offs.
We enjoy being part of our communities and attending local events to run fun dog shows raising money each year for our chosen charity and encouraging team members to take part. Cromwell Vets also holds regular social events, including summer events, impromptu lunchtime barbeques, and the famous annual Christmas party.
If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss further, please get in touch with nataliejay.shoemark@linnaeusgroup.co.uk