Role: Veterinary Surgeon
Location: Cherrydown Vets, Basildon
Salary: £45,000 to £60,000 (Dependent on experience)
Working hours: Full time or part time options available, No OOH
Join the Cherrydown Vets family - where great medicine meets great company!
Are you a Veterinary Surgeon looking for a practice where you can grow your skills, enjoy your work, and be part of a genuinely supportive team? At Cherrydown Vets we pride ourselves on being a fun loving, family style team that delivers high quality care. We are passionate about knowledge sharing, growing, and caring for each other, and we host regular social events as a team - including bringing homemade cake every Friday!
We are very excited to be growing our Veterinary team, and this role will see you working alongside our Lead Vet and Clinical Nursing Manager to help ensure quality pet care is offered to all our patients. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact within an Essex clinic, as part of a 4 Vet practice and working with our wonderful nursing and support team!
Why Join us?
Feel supported through the guidance of our excellent Senior Leadership Team.
Enjoy a varied caseload in medicine and surgery, with a dedicated day for operations.
Join a well equipped practice with a large imaging suite, new X-ray machine, Laparoscopy kit, 5 consults rooms, 2 operating theatres, separate cattery and kennels and goodbye room.
Work closely with surrounding specialist hospitals, including Southfields Referrals.
Great location, accessible from Essex and parts of London with excellent public transport links.
We welcome discussions around flexible working patterns! We recognise the importance of work-life balance so we can be flexible with working hours/patterns for the right candidate.
Bring your pet to work thanks to our available kennel space!
What we are looking for:
RCVS registered Veterinary Surgeon
Ideally 3 years of experience post qualification, both in surgery and consults
An enthusiastic team player with a strong interest in learning and skills development
If you are keen to learn collaborate and make a difference to pets and their people, we would love to hear from you!
Benefits
5 weeks holiday a year plus birthday leave and bank holidays
RCVS and VDS fees paid
External CPD funded, including certificates (on approval)
Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD programmes
Career progression opportunities
Staff discount schemes
Enhanced sickness pay
Enhanced equal family leave
E-car salary sacrifice scheme
Wellness program including:
Employee assistance programme
Eyecare voucher scheme
Voucher for Flu jab
Cycle-to-work scheme
Recruitment referral reward scheme
Cherrydown Vets is part of Linnaeus and Mars Veterinary Health, the largest family-owned veterinary company in the world. Being privately owned, we can truly be driven by our purpose, to create a better world, and think long-term as opposed to being focused solely on short-term profits.
At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people. Our Associates are over 6000 strong and empowered to speak up, step up and deliver quality services. You’ll have access to a huge network of specialists, worldwide development opportunities and an easily accessible, comprehensive wellbeing package that prioritises your physical and mental health, allowing you to focus on what you do best – care for pets.
We are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse, we care about you and want you to be authentic, with everything you need to perform at your best. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to achieve our purpose.
If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with Camilla in the recruitment team at camilla.saccucci@linnaeusgroup.co.uk
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