Veterinary Surgeon

Posted on 13/05/2022
What's On Offer

An excellent salary of up to £65,000 DOE.
A golden handshake of £5000.
Relocation support of up to £5000

The Role

An opportunity not to be missed at The Vet Centre Maids Moreton! This is rare chance to further your career as a Veterinary Surgeon in a practice that has a forward-looking approach whilst maintaining the traditional values of animal care and client trust.

40 hours a week over 4.5 days with a 1 in 4 Saturday morning. We do our own overnight hospitalisation of any ongoing cases as required, alongside an experienced RVN.

About Us

We are a practice with an excellent reputation for providing high quality care whilst still enjoying what we do. We provide a friendly, supportive environment for our staff with a varied caseload alongside the capacity to advance and enhance your skills enabling us to get the most out of being in general practice. We have got the brains, the training, and the kit: we like to use them.

The main surgery at Maids Moreton (near Buckingham) is equipped with full diagnostic, laboratory, surgical and hospitalisation facilities. This enables us to have the satisfaction of investigating and treating our patients to a high clinical standard whilst referring to specialists when appropriate. We perform our own cardiac scans, endoscopy (rhinoscopy & otoscopy all the way through to colonoscopy), laparoscopy (90%+ of spays are "keyhole"), fracture repair and stifle TTA's; and improve the quality of our surgical procedures and outcomes with bipolar diathermy, harmonic scalpels and "Enseal" equipment. Dental x-rays are available at both sites with air-driven equipment, sharp instruments and "Vet-tome" to make "dentals" a pleasure rather than a chore.

About the Team and Culture

The Vet Centre is a "market-town" small animal vet practice with a staff of 6 Veterinary Surgeons 5 FTE, 6 Registered Veterinary Nurses, 1 Student Veterinary Nurse and a Veterinary Care Assistant providing top class veterinary care at our main site at Maids Moreton and branch at Cherry Lane. We are a long-standing mostly home-grown team with a progressive and welcoming attitude. Buckingham is within a grammar school catchment area.

Applicant Requirements

We are looking for a capable, charismatic, and highly motivated Veterinary Surgeon.
Ability to work sole charge
Good clinical, inter-personal and communication skills
Capable of handling more complicated consultations and cases
Competent surgical skills (e.g. Caesarean section, pyometra)
The desire and ability to improve and progress your skills further in general first opinion practice - it doesn't have to be mundane and can be fun, rewarding and very fulfilling!

Benefits Veterinary Surgeon

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

5.6 weeks annual leave
Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service
Your birthday as a paid day off
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
£1,500 CPD allowance with paid pro-rata
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
BVA membership
VDS cover
RCVS fees (not standard, needs confirmed for each advert)
Pawsome Benefits - reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100's of retailers
Pension - 5% Employee/3% Employer
Discounted staff pet care

If this position is of interest to you then please get in touch and quote reference BH5814.

IVC150

Any questions before applying?

Speak to Michael Middleton from our recruitment team who would be happy to help you with any questions you have before applying for this role.

Michael Middleton

Talent Partner

(0)