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Small Animal GP Internship Position - London NW10

Employer
Roundwood Vets
Location
London (North), London (Greater) NW10
Salary
Salary of £30,000 to £34,000 depending on experience
Closing date
18 Sep 2019

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Job Details

Roundwood Vets General Practice Internship Applications Invited. London.

Have you been in practice for 6-12 months and are ready now to find a role that genuinely offers both caseload and support?

Are you able to undertake some of the basics more confidently like neutering, dentals and lumpectomies?

Would you like to take more time with clients and animals to deliver better care with longer appointments?

Have you had some setbacks, but have been able to learn from them rather than be crushed by them?

Are you looking for a role where you have time to do your job well, learn and grow, but also downtime to enjoy your life and find direction?

If so, then read on, we may have the role for you.

About You
We are looking for someone who can fit our team culture and values. Those values and how they influence our behaviour are why we have such a special team vibe. So here’s what matters most to us as a team:

  1. We’re honest.
  2. We’re kind.
  3. We conscientious.
  4. We’re fair.
  5. We’re loyal.
  6. We’re fun.

So if these things matter to you too, there’s a very high chance we’ll get along well.

Some other things about you…
Even at this early stage in your career, you’ll have worked out that communicating well with those around you is a huge part of being a good vet. You’ll have some natural talent at doing this, but you’ll be keen to develop this side of your game a lot.

You’ll be able to perform dentals, basic soft tissue operations and medical work-ups. You’ll be able to use imaging like X-rays (we don’t imagine you’ll be perfect at any of this, but you will be good enough that you don’t need your hand holding all of the time. Plus you’ll have a sense of where your limits and be able to ask for help when you reach them.

You’ll be the type of vet who is OK with working with and helping to advance our standards of care. (Not all vets like this, which is fine, but we like to have some basic guidelines to work with to improve outcomes and client consistency.)

You’ll be a person who can manage time, priorities and gets the work done each day.

You’ll also be one of those people who can build trusting relationships with ease. Someone who can help clients understand what the right thing to do is. More than likely people think of you as a good storyteller.

We’re not looking for someone who will work themselves into the ground, you should know how to look after yourself first and foremost because if you break, no-one wins. We’re trying to change the mould for veterinary medicine by creating a great working environment where we care about each other as much as we care about pets and clients. Profit matters, but it’s not the most important thing to us. Our people come first, then pets, then clients - if we get this stuff right, then we know that money will look after itself. So we want someone who understands that life is about balance and being a vet, while important, is not the be-all and end-all.

There are a few other things we’d like you to feel good about:

  • "us" - your vet tribe.
  • Your clients - if you can do clients then you can do vet med. If you can't then you are in trouble.
  • Your patients (obvs).
  • You.
  • Really, YOU in quite a big way.
  • Money and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. It'll never come first, but it is there and we all need to work on this.
  • We want you to be willing to learn and grow.
  • We want you to help others in the team learn and grow.
  • We want you to be willing to be amazing.
  • We want you to leave your ego at the door.
  • We want to laugh and cry with you at the crazy stuff we have to deal with.
  • We want to be able to have a beer/wine/soft drink of your choice with you. (We’re not raging alcoholics, honestly).
  • We want you to understand that the owners of this practice care very deeply about helping you get where you want to go and helping you become what you can be.
  • We want you to accept that you are not perfect, that none of us is and that's OK. Failure is OK. Just as long as yo0u can pick yourself up and learn so you get better.
  • We want you to be happy.

If you can do that, we'd be very, very proud to call you a teammate.

(And if you can be that, or be willing to work towards it.... could you also never leave?)

About The Role
OK, let’s talk about this role. The work you’ll be doing includes the following (it’s not a totally exhaustive list as our roles are very varied).

  1. Four 8-hour shifts each week, plus a Saturday morning every third weekend. 
  2. You’ll be consulting, performing dentals, work-ups and medical/surgical treatments, mostly this will be your own caseload, but we’ll put together a training plan to improve.
  3. Working within our standards of care guides - or helping to develop them where we don’t have them.
  4. You’ll also have a “reading day” off each week where we will pay you to stay away from the practice and learn some other cool shit that helps you grow.
  5. There is no on-call and only very, very occasionally do we have inpatients that require overnight care - which is done on a roster after hours.
  6. You will be working with two other vets most days, though one day per week and your Saturday morning you will be the only vet. If that freaks you out, don’t apply.

In return for being a great part of this team for 40 hour each week, we offer a great package including:

  • Base salary of £30,000-34,000 depending on experience.
  • Medical health insurance. (Value £500/year).
  • CPD budget (Minimum £1000/year by agreement and alignment with shared objectives).
  • VetX:Thrive community membership. (Value £200/year)
  • Discounted pet care package.
  • Travel allowance (£500/year).
  • Participation in our annual and monthly bonus scheme.

About Roundwood Vets
We took over a single vet, slightly broken practice, just over three years ago. In that time, we’ve seen it grow to four times the size, change our client base and purchased all the equipment you’d expect in a modern vet hospital. Plus we’ve renovated the building so it is a pleasant place you can be proud of coming to work.

We have grown by focussing on looking after clients, each other and pets. We’re a tight-knit team. And now we have an opening to begin one of our original objectives which is to give a recent graduate a good to work alongside our experienced vets.

When you join us you can expect great training. We work to a high standard. So, for example, to perform our anaesthetics, we use the best drugs and everything gets fluids. We use anaesthetic monitors, we use safe heating blankets, we train, we record incidents and we review our practice and process in a no-blame way. So it’s the safest it can be for our patients.

With our dentals (we do a lot of these - so if you hate dentistry then don’t work here), we take radiographs and photos of everything. We use the best, well-maintained equipment. We have access to brilliant online training materials. We practice our skills on cadavers.

This is the way we try to approach our work, and we’re a long way from getting it perfect every day. But we try, and a lot of days we get close. Which makes us happy, because safe happy, healthy pets are why we get out of bed.

You can also expect a friendly, welcoming and open culture from top to bottom. Ego isn’t a welcome guest here. We want humble team-mates. But that doesn’t mean meek, our team are great fun and have a good laugh. None of us is the finished article, we’re all learning, growing and moving forward. And we want to work with people who push us to get better, who call us out when we might be wrong, who gently steer us back in the right direction. With compassion, kindness and love.

Again, do we get this right each day? Of course not, but when we get it wrong we are smart enough to say sorry and fix any issues fast. Because team harmony matters.

And you can expect a fair wage. We’re a small practice, but we want to pay our people fairly. So we have a package that includes pet care, medical health insurance, salary and perk box access. As a permanent member of the team, you’ll have access to these benefits.

What’s the next step?
If after reading all of this you might be interested, then please click the apply button and complete the application form.

Thanks for reading. :)

Company

We are an independently owned boutique practice in London who cares about people as much as we do animals. We are looking for people who share our values and want a career with a practice where life is a bit different. To give you an idea of what things we are looking for and also what to expect if you come to work with us, we're delighted to share our values statement with you. So here goes....It's important that we...

Get better - keep learning and improving.

Keep making our systems simpler. And keep helping those around you to achieve their goals. Don’t do it the hard way when there’s an easy way instead.

Have fun - work stops being a chore when you do what you love and master it. Life’s better when we smile not frown.

Act with integrity - real trust builds only when we do what feels right, we’re honest and we keep our word.

Take pride - you worked hard to get here and you made a difference to somebody’s life today.

Be nice - all people and creatures (even spiders) deserve our respect and our kindness, not our judgement. True happiness comes from helping others, so we give everyone a fair go.

If these statements connect with you then we'd love to hear from you.

Company info
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Telephone
020 8459 4729
Location
176 Church Rd
Willesden
London
NW10 9NP
GB

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