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Clinical Director

Employer
White Cross Vets, Staffordshire
Location
Staffordshire
Salary
Salary up to £85,000 depending on experience
Closing date
21 Jun 2022

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Job Details

The Role

The Clinical Director at our Wolstanton practice has unfortunately relocated and as result, we have a fantastic new opportunity available for a veterinary surgeon who is looking to take the next step in their career. This role would be suitable for someone who has had previous senior experience and will be predominantly focused on leading and developing the clinical team. 

Our clinic has a very varied caseload, and we routinely have a visiting peripatetic orthopaedic surgeon, so we would love to hear from candidates with a surgical bias - although this isn’t a deal-breaker. Our teams work-life balance and well-being are always top priorities at White Cross Vets and as a group, we have adopted a more flexible approach to working. If this is of interest, we’d love to discuss the specifics further with you. We are keen to consider full time and part-time applicants, with a share of Saturday mornings between 8:30 am-12:30 pm, with TOIL given for each weekend worked. Out of hours is not required for this role. The salary for this role is up to £85,000 depending on experience. 

About Us

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

Wolstanton is a growing practice with great facilities including 4 consult rooms, a cat ward, dog ward, operating theatre, digital x-ray, dental x-ray, ultrasound, and access to endoscope if needed. Working alongside our wonderful nurse team, we have 3 vets who have been qualified for 2-15 years. Our practice holds the ISFM silver award for cat care and the IVC Evidensia patient safety award. 

Our veterinary team enjoy all aspects of general veterinary practice and 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. The team feel like a Clinic Director with a surgical bias, would complement their interests and offer support in this area, whilst providing the successful candidate with a career opportunity to progress and grow a more advanced surgical service, for which there is demand. 

The successful candidate will be supported by a senior vet and practice manager, alongside a complete nurse and front of house team, therefore there is adequate opportunity to maintain a healthy balance between leadership and clinical work.

About the Practice Culture

One of the best parts of working at Wolstanton is our close-knit, enthusiastic team. We are all food lovers and often do sausage roll runs to “Wright’s Pies”, which is just next door, as well as chocolate treasure hunts around the practice. As a team, we are very focused on team building and take our well-being 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.

Applicant Requirements 

  • The successful candidate must have the following skills/attributes:
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience
  • Drive to work towards clinical excellence within first opinion practice
  • Confidence in making strong clinical recommendations and being able to coach less experienced team members in making these
  • Confident surgical experience is a requirement. Dependent on candidate interests, certificates/further qualifications fully supported
  • Leadership qualities to enable successful support of less experienced team members
  • Confidence in supporting less experienced team members with surgical cases
  • Be able to work as part of a senior team within a clinic, to help provide a safe and supportive working environment
  • Provide clinical support to the practice manager, to help maintain legislation such as Practice Standards and Health and Safety
  • 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

Benefits - Subject to Pro Rata:

  • Enhanced holiday entitlement and increasing holiday based on length of service
  • CPD paid days and allowance
  • L&D opportunities through the IVC Evidensia Academy
  • Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay
  • Company bonus scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • BVA Membership paid
  • VDS cover
  • Birthday leave
  • Discounted veterinary fees
  • Various discounts including retail & gym memberships
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Service-related company sick pay
  • Sponsorship for overseas employees
  • Initiatives focussed on employee wellbeing
  • Relocation packages
  • Career progression opportunities

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.


If this position is of interest to you then please get in touch. Please quote BH5640 when you apply. 

To submit your application, click the apply button.

 

Company

White Cross Vets has been caring for pets for almost a hundred years.

We have always been built on strong principles, valuing people and pets above all else. But how did our practice begin? And who has been involved in making it the organisation it is today?

To find out, we need to begin back in the early part of the last century, before the second world war.

Company info
Telephone
01782898030
Location
High Street
Wolstanton
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
ST5 0EW
GB

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