Veterinary Surgeon, White Cross Vets, Wolstanton

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. We can offer up to £5000 for relocation support.

Work life balance that works for you

We are proud to say our flexible approach to rota patterns and working hours truly tips the scale on your work life balance. We know that everyone has demands and priorities outside of their career and we want to make it brilliantly easy for you to strike the right balance, whether you are looking for a full time or part time role we are sure we can find the right rota pattern for you. A typical full time role would involve a 36 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 08:30 - 18:00 with phones being transferred to Vets Now to ensure everyone gets away on time, whenever possible.

About us

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 SignalPet 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 3-10 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.

Because our people 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

*6.6 weeks annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays

*Additional holiday entitlement for your birthday

Wellbeing

*Private Medical Insurance

*Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 confidential helpline

*Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay

*Initiatives focused on colleague wellbeing

Development

*£1250 CPD allowance with 40 hours paid CPD leave 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

Professional Memberships

*BVA membership

*VDS cover

Colleague Benefits

*Company pension scheme. IVC Evidensia will make a contribution as well

*Supporting a greener commute to work with a Cycle to Work scheme and Green Cars Scheme, subject to eligibility criteria

*Voluntary benefits: we give you the flexibility to choose from a range of voluntary benefits to suit you

*Access to discounts/cashback with hundreds of participating retailers

*Discounted treatment for your own pets at an IVC Evidensia practice

At IVC Evidensia we are a committed to Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging, 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.

Up to £65,000 DOE and up to £5,000 relocation allowance.