Job Description

Great opportunity for a Veterinary Surgeon looking to develop their career and be the Vet you trained to be. At Vets Now  Reading you ll enjoy treating an interesting emergency caseload

Role Summary
Working in Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) with Vets Now is an interesting, varied and highly rewarding environment, giving you a unique chance to utilise and develop a very broad range of surgical and medical skills.

As part of a small clinic team (working as a sole charge vet, alongside a receptionist and a qualified veterinary nurse), this rewarding hands-on role includes anaesthesia, surgery and clinical procedures seeing you make a real difference in critical cases. Due to the nature of ECC medicine, you won't know what to expect on each shift, but will be equipped with the facilities, training and support network to handle any case with the highest standards of clinical and client care.

This role is an excellent platform for developing your career. You’ll benefit from ongoing training and investment in your clinical skills and CPD, including access to our regular on-site training programme. What’s more helping our employees to continually progress how they’d like is really important to us. Many of our people move up to a senior role within their clinic or take advantage of the training and the growth in our company to relocate and progress.

Working Pattern
We currently have both a Full Time and a Part Time Veterinary Surgeon vacancy available at Reading.  Rotas are managed at local level by the Senior Veterinary Surgeon. As a rough guide, Full Time at Vets Now typically means an average of just 3 night shifts per week with a share of weekend days & public holiday days.

Shift times are: Monday to Friday nights from 6.30pm to 8.30am, Saturday night 6pm-9am and Sunday night 6pm to 9am), plus a share of weekend day shifts (Saturdays 12noon-6pm, Sundays 9am-6pm) and your share of bank holidays.

Clinic Description
Vets Now Reading provides Out Of Hours emergency cover for over 20 veterinary practices across the region. The clinic is purpose built and offers a pleasant working environment with separate dog and cat wards and separate dog and cat theatres. It is a hospital standard building and holds tier 2 status as an emergency clinic. The clinic has a good range of equipment – radiography, ultrasound, multiparameter, endoscopy, ecg etc to aid rapid diagnosis and treatment. It has piped gases throughout the building and active scavenging is available in both theatres and prep areas. There is a large amount of kenneling space for both dogs and cats so our patients are more than adequately catered for and comfortable. Reading enjoys a varied case load and rewarding atmosphere working as part of a young, enthusiastic and very capable team. The staff are both friendly and supportive which means Vets Now Reading offers an excellent opportunity for new staff to quickly integrate as part of the team.

Who we’re looking for
You don’t necessarily need to have lots of experience of Emergency and Critical Care. In our opinion, ECC is really about doing good quality medicine well, and of course developing your ECC skills through ongoing training. So all we ask is that you are fully qualified, RCVS registered and have a minimum of 6 months experience working within an English speaking small animal practice. You should also be comfortable working sole charge, confident in your clinical ability and of course legally eligible to work in the UK.

Your CPD
We’re passionate about developing our people and their skills. You’ll receive clinical skills development and paid veterinary CPD through our tailored On-Site Training Programme, a thorough full induction, as well as a very generous CPD allowance to develop your own particular ECC areas of interest. So whether you’re from an ECC background or not, our induction and ongoing CPD will provide the foundation for a great career with us.

Your Package
You will be well rewarded as we offer a competitive salary, and access to our excellent flexible benefits package, which can be tailored to meet your individual needs and lifestyle. You’ll also be eligible for our Clinic Bonus Scheme, which for an on target performance can add at least 2.5% of your salary. In addition, we provide a regional allowance in selected locations.

Other lifestyle benefits include generous discounts with a wide range of leading UK and international retailers and the holiday allowance for full time permanent employees is 28 days (pro rata for part time).

Next Steps
If the enjoyment of Emergency and Critical Care, our culture, a better work/life balance and the training is appealing then please get in touch!
To apply please click ”Apply now” button below, or for an informal chat about this or other roles, please call us on 01383 841181.