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Small Animal Vet

Employer
CVS (UK) Limited
Location
Fareham, Hampshire
Salary
£31,000 - £66,000 Depending on Experience
Closing date
3 Oct 2019

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Job Details

Enthusiastic vet required to join us at the Alver Veterinary Group.

  • 11 Vet team
  • Sunny South Hampshire
  • 4 day week (part time hours considered)
  • Achieved outstanding in our PSS client care award

Our three site, small animal practice is based in South Hampshire close to the New Forest, with easy access to Southampton, Portsmouth and London.

You will join an excellent, friendly and experienced team of eleven vets including Cert holders in Diagnostic Imaging and Medicine (and three other vets currently working towards their certs in Surgery and Medicine). Our nursing team are experienced and take a pro-active approach to patient care.

We have the right kit to work up our cases (including digital x-ray, dental x-ray, ultrasound, endoscopy, on-site lab and tonopen) and time to spend with our clients (15 min consults are the norm). We recently achieved ‘outstanding' in our PSS client care award.

We work a max 4 day week with no OOHs, ensuring a great work-life balance and hold regular team meetings to ‘check in' with each other and share clinical knowledge.

Our ideal vet should be enthusiastic about the profession, a team player and truly care about the health and welfare of our patients. We welcome applicants who would like a part-time or full-time role.

In return you will receive:
A generous CPD allowance, certificate study fully supported and paid for
Attractive salary package DOE: From £31k (for a newly graduated colleague) to £66k (for an experience colleague working to certificate level or above)
Short term accommodation available if you need to relocate
5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays. Plus the opportunity to buy and sell up 2 weeks of holiday!

For more information or for an informal chat about the position please contact Emma Gray MRCVS via email emma.gray@cvsvets.com or phone 07966 019984.

Company

CVS (UK) Limited was established in August 1999 to acquire and operate veterinary practices which were well established within their local community and had a reputation for high quality service.  It was recognised that the value of these businesses lay in the quality of their staff and the relationship they enjoyed with their existing clients. To build on this CVS provides professional management expertise in the areas of finance, personnel, practice management, Health & Safety etc,  thereby relieving the local staff of many administrative tasks, to enable them to concentrate on clinical care.

As the number of acquisitions increases,  so does the diversity of operational styles and approaches.  These are shared on a regular basis at meetings of all the clinical directors, giving each practice an opportunity to consider alternative approaches to common problems. New initiatives are considered by this group and then fed back to each of their businesses.

Since 2001 CVS has diversified by acquiring two businesses that offer veterinary histopathology and cytology, plus more general veterinary laboratory services. This provides a wealth of experience to the practice division and the profession in general.

A more recent development has been the focus in acquiring practices in close proximity to each other.  This enables the group to benefit from certain synergies, and provides an opportunity for internal referrals.  Through its support for quality CPD many of the company’s veterinary surgeons have acquired skills of value to their colleagues elsewhere in the group. CVS already employs veterinary Specialists who offer invaluable advice to their colleagues.

Other benefits have also emerged as the company has grown. The use of single suppliers for certain types of product has enabled CVS to get more competitive prices and better support from the manufacturers.  Care is taken not to compromise clinical judgment through its selection of products, and this is achieved by having a working party drawn from the Clinical Director team that considers all options and seeks agreement from their colleagues before arriving at a decision.

Further acquisitions are always being considered but care is taken to ensure that each one is compatible with the CVS culture. The key attributes are their location, their current standing in the local community, their overall performance and the willingness of the existing practice team to embrace the CVS approach to business.

 

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