Pets at Home

Veterinary Surgeon - Part / Full Time

Pets at Home  •  Onsite  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

As a growing practice we are looking for an experienced vet that can help us grow and support the local pets in our community!

  • You will join the practice at a really exciting time we are growing the practice due to our loyal clients
  • We are looking for an experienced vet who is ready to make their mark on a practice and help us push forward and offer our excellent levels of care to even more of our local community and their pets
  • The role can consider full and part time be for between 23 – 40 hours and will include 1 in 4 Saturdays
  • You will join a lovely, well established and long-standing team who believe in supporting each other and having fun with regular social events throughout the year
  • Salary negotiable dependant on experience

About Us

With more than 440 small animal practices across the country, of all shapes and sizes, Vets for Pets is one of the largest UK veterinary groups and offers Veterinary Surgeons a range of opportunities, including the opportunity to run your own practice. However, what really makes vets for pets a unique opportunity is that it is run locally, providing our local teams the time and opportunity to support their local community. This means you to join a team that can support your individual needs while offering you a bespoke introduction to the practice, local community and caring for our patients!

Our practice is made up of 3 experienced vets, 2 RVNs, 1 SVN, 1 VCA and all our wonderful support colleagues who allow us to provide fantastic care for our lovely loyal clients. We are a supportive team that believe on helping each other reach their career goals whilst enjoying a fun social calendar.

Our purpose-built surgery (take a look at our google tour here complete with high quality facilities and equipment, is situated on the Clwyd Retail Park in town. We have great local amenities close by and plenty of options for those all-important lunch breaks. When not working, there’s great transport links to West Wales for the stunning settings and great outdoors and over to Liverpool and Chester for the busy city life. Or if you prefer, take in all Rhyl has to offer with sandy beaches, activities galore, and sites to see; there’s truly something for everyone here!

As a growing practice we are always interested in hearing from local talent interested in working with us, because everyone is at different stages in their veterinary career, we are open to speak to anyone. So, if you are an experienced vet looking for somewhere they can mentor and lead a team or a new graduate wanting that first step on the career ladder we want to hear from you. We are not just interested in hearing from vets with our ambitious plans we want to hear from nurses wanting to expand their knowledge, student nurses looking for paid roles to gain experience and anyone wanting to enter a career in animal care interested in our veterinary care assistant or client care assistant positions

Benefits include:

  • Very competitive Salary depending on experience
  • 5.6 weeks paid holiday not including bank holidays
  • Additional week’s holiday after 2 years’ service
  • 5 days paid CPD leave
  • Flexible for relevant CPD
  • Daily paid coffee breaks - strongly encouraged for staff wellbeing
  • O/T paid or available as TOIL, same situation with any encroachment of lunch breaks
  • MRCVS Membership paid
  • BVA Membership paid
  • VDS cover
  • Birthday leave

If you would like to hear more about working with us please contact Rach on northvet@vets4pets.com and someone will get back to you within 1 working day

Location: LL18 2TJ

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.

We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.

Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.

Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!

If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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