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Veterinary Surgeon

Employer
Taylor Veterinary Practice Ltd
Location
Rutherglen, Glasgow
Salary
Salary Up to £50,000 negotiable and competitive DOE
Closing date
22 Jul 2022
Phone number
07977XXXXXX

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The Role

Taylor Veterinary Practice, Cathkin is looking for a Veterinary Surgeon to join our team. This is ideally a full-time position, however flexible and part-time applicants will also be considered. We have a high and varied surgical caseload covering small animals, small furries, and some exotics. The role can also accommodate a vet looking to work solely within consulting shifts for those who prefer to avoid operating. You would be working between all 3 branches with Cathkin as the main hub and East Kilbride and Clarkston as consulting only branches.

 

Rota

Working up to 40 hours per week – however flexible and can offer part time hours

Full time is working across 5 days between Monday-Friday – part time hours are flexible

3:8 Saturdays – day off in lieu the preceding week

No OOH

No Sunday shifts

 

Salary

Up to £50,000 negotiable and competitive depending on experience

Welcome bonus of up to £1,500

Relocation package up to £5000

 

About Us

Taylor Veterinary Practice is one of the oldest established small animal veterinary practices in the world. We are a 3-branch practice based on the Southside of Glasgow, ideal for either city-based living or more rural lifestyles

 

Our TVP family consists of 16 vets, a team of fantastic nurses, ANA’s, receptionists and an administration department. We have 3 certificate holders in medicine and surgery, with another working towards an ophthalmology certificate. Many of the vets have individual areas of interest, which means there is always someone to offer advice on a challenging case.

 

Applicant Requirements

Must be RCVS registered and qualified and ideally have some experience working in small animal practice. CPD is encouraged and funded as well as further certification opportunities available.

 

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

•             7.2 weeks holiday including bank holidays per annum

•             Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service

•             Your birthday as a paid day off

 

Wellbeing

•             Private medical insurance

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

•             Cycle to Work scheme

•             Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing

•             Non-accidental injury support

 

Development

•             £1,500 CPD allowance with 5 days Paid CPD leave

•             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 £1000 per annum to spend via our Care Fund

•             Infection Prevention and Control Programme

•             Quality Improvement Programme

 

Professional Memberships

•             BVA membership

•             VDS cover

•             RCVS fees

 

Additional

•             Pawsome Benefits – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers

•             Pension – 5% Employee/3% Employer

•             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.

If this position is of interest to you then please get in touch.

Please quote BH3936 when applying for this role.

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Company

Taylor Veterinary Practice is one of the oldest established veterinary practices in the world and has been caring for animals in the community, as part of the Cathkin Estate, for almost two hundred years.

In 1826, Master Blacksmith, John Taylor (1801-1857) (1st generation) moved from Cowgate in Edinburgh to Cathkin and founded a blacksmith workshop ‘John Taylor Smithy’. This became the nineteenth century equivalent of a veterinary practice and remained so for five generations of Taylors.

In those days the blacksmiths worked in the forge, shod horses and attended farms and mines to visit sick animals. There was no Glasgow Veterinary school at this time but due to his experience with animals John Taylor often treated horses and pit ponies.

The second half of the nineteenth century saw great progress in veterinary care.

The first Professor of Veterinary Medicine to teach in the US was a Scottish man by the name of Dr James Law and in 1861 Glasgow Veterinary School was born.

John's son David Taylor (1827-1880) (2nd generation), one of ten children, followed in his father’s footsteps as a blacksmith and continued in a life of treating and working with animals at Smithy House.

John Taylor (1852-1942), who had two sisters, was the 3rd generation. He also followed the family tradition becoming a blacksmith but additionally enrolled in the fledgling Veterinary School. His qualification as a vet in 1870 firmly established Smithy House as a Veterinary Practice. John had five children, two becoming Veterinary Surgeons and one of them James Fyfe Taylor (1885 - 1931) (4th generation) continuing the practice at Cathkin.

James was also drafted as a Veterinary Officer in the First World War. He was responsible for the treatment of horses used for transporting guns and supplies, noting in his war diary 'Horses dying of exhaustion and exposure. Too many'

After the war he returned to Smithy House, expanding the Veterinary Practice and had a son James Morrison Taylor in 1920s the 5th and final generation who qualified as a vet in 1942.

Father and son worked side by side as vets for many years at Smithy House employing more vets and less blacksmiths as cars became widespread.

James Morrison Taylor was a man of vision and lay down the roots of the practice that we see today. In the 1940s and 50s few vets treated small animals, concentrating on horses and cows but James very quickly saw the satisfaction in giving pets the best treatment possible. He slowly developed small animal clinics under the radar of his father and established Smithy House as a Veterinary Practice for all animals. The Smithy was converted into a waiting room and consulting rooms and over 50 years James grew the practice steadily with commitment, hard work and a love of animals.

The surgery is now known as ‘Taylor Veterinary Practice’, a large independently owned, RCVS (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons) accredited small animal practice. To this day, Taylor Veterinary Practice at Smithy House continues to work to Mr Taylor’s vision of giving each and every patient the best care possible, treating every pet as if their own.

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Smithy House
Cathkin
Rutherglen
Glasgow
Lanarkshire
G73 5QU
GB

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