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White Cross Vets

Veterinary Surgeon - Small Animal - Wolstanton

Newcastle under Lyme

PART TIME

August 28, 2024

Veterinary Surgeon - Small Animal - Wolstanton

White Cross Vets, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands

Discipline: Small Animal

Part Time, Flexible

Up to £70,000 FTE DOE plus rel

Your next career opportunity is at White Cross Vets!

Here at White Cross Vets, Wolstanton, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Veterinary Surgeon to join our friendly and supportive team. We’re keen to offer a role that matches your own interests, because of this, we can tailor the caseload to your own clinical bias, tell us what you’re looking for and we will try our hardest to make it happen! White Cross are committed to ensuring that you receive the necessary development to better your clinical skills with full certificate support.

Flexibility that works for you

The role is currently a part-time position, 27 hours per week. We are very open to chatting with those who are looking for less hours or flexible working pattern. Currently, there is no weekend work required, however this may change in the future. Best of all? No OOH is required for this role! The clinic opens from 08:00 - 18:00 with phones being transferred to Vets Now to ensure everyone gets away on time, whenever possible.

A Bit About Us and Our Fabulous Team

Wolstanton is a practice with great facilities including 4 consult rooms, cat ward, dog ward, operating theatre, digital x-ray, dental x-ray, ultrasound and access to endoscope if needed, an Imagyst machine for in house cytology analysis, meaning we can get results back from FNAs etc within 2 hours, as well access to Signal Pet which uses artificial intelligence to provide support interpreting radiographs. You’ll be working alongside our wonderful nurse team, we have 2 vets who have been qualified for 2-15 years. We hold the ISFM silver award for cat care and the IVC Evidensia patient safety award. Our veterinary team enjoy all aspects of general veterinary practice. High-quality clinical care is of utmost importance to the team, they even thoroughly enjoy staged dentals. The clinical team, routinely conduct audits, ensuring that they are always working towards gold standard first opinion pet care.

Strong Support for Amazing Care

We have a very strong management team who are keen to train and develop our team. We have a clinical lead nurse who is responsible for maintaining our patient safety awards and promoting clinical improvement and quality of care. We hold regular practice, vet, nurse and reception meetings for open discussion. We're also a cat friendly clinic and offer certificate opportunities for personal development, ensuring there is a 12-month plan of in house CPD of the teams chosen subject areas.

Treats a-plenty!

One of the best parts of working at Wolstanton is our close-knit, enthusiastic team. As a team, we are very focused on wellbeing and team building and take our wellbeing afternoons extremely seriously, which have included “Bake-Off” style competitions, Christmas quizzes and Halloween pumpkin carving. We may also be partial to a spot of BINGO and love some Festive Fun.

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 holiday including bank holidays
Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service
Your birthday as a paid day off

Wellbeing

Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay
Up to 4 days paternity leave for new pets
Cycle to Work scheme
Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing, including discounted gym membership
Access to Simply Health
Non-accidental injury support
Private medical insurance
Discretionary wellbeing day

Development

£1500 CPD allowance with 5 days paid pro rata
Certificate support
Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy
Access to Vetlexicon – our online encyclopaedia provider
for research funding
Infection Prevention and Control Programme
Quality Improvement Programme

Professional Memberships

VDS cover
RCVS fees

Additional

Pawsome Benefits – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
Pension – 5% Employee/3% Employer
Five days to volunteer for a charity of your choice
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.

White Cross Vets, Wolstanton

High Street, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 0EW, United Kingdom

Animals treated

Small animals

Any questions before ing?

Speak to Mike Burrell from our recruitment team who would be happy to help you with any questions you have before ing for this role.

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