Small Animal Vet, Wakefield
- Employer
- CVS (UK) Limited
- Location
- Wakefield, West Yorkshire
- Salary
- Attractive salary and benefits package
- Closing date
- 15 Jan 2021
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- Category
- Companion / Small animal
- Sector
- Practice
- Role
- Veterinary Surgeon
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-time, Part-time
Job Details
We are looking for a Small Animal Vet to join our Ashfield Veterinary practice based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Our Wakefield practice offers excellent working conditions, great practice layout with all the equipment available to provide a high quality of clinical care. A warm and welcoming team to work with and you will be part of our Ashfield group where we have teams based at other branches.
Considering a relocation for work? Wakefield is a vibrant city within the Yorkshire and Humber region and is well placed to access other regional centres such as Leeds, Sheffield and York. Also close by to airports offering domestic and international flights including Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Robert Hood Airport and East Midlands. The city centre is alive with cafes restaurants and bars and heaps of family fun things to do (all dependant on current covid restrictions of course) Enjoy the outdoors? There is a variety of walking and cycle paths, country parks waterway and lakes! Sport enthusiast? Wakefield is popular for its rugby league and horse racing! Truly a great place to live and work.
Sounds amazing doesn't it? Perhaps you have family connections or have lived in the Wakefield area before and looking to re-locate back home? Tell us what we can do to help get you here? We can offer accommodation for the first few months of you joining. Perhaps a re-location allowance could help with those moving costs? Or are you a Vet looking to progress into management with no current options to do so in your practice setting? We can discuss a management opportunity with you here at Wakefield!
The role you will play:
We are looking for a small animal Vet to join us with experience. At Wakefield, you can have the opportunity to build you own client base, to really make the practice feel like your own. Thinking about that next step in your career? Want to test the water with taking on some supervisory duties? There is scope for this here and we can work with you to get you there. We want someone to help shape our practice into an example of clinical excellence and patient care. We have huge potential and you will be part of moulding our future!
Meet the team:
You will be part of our Ashfield family where we have teams based at other sites in the surrounding areas. Chloe is our Clinical Director for Ashfield, a Vet from Nottingham Vet School 2011 and Micheal is our Business Operations Manager started in 2012 and has been a huge part of our Ashfield group for the past 8 years. You will enjoy working with a great team of Vets, Nurses and Receptionists.
What will we offer:
Competitive salary, Bonus schemes, temporary accommodation, full or part time hours, clinical freedom, up to 7 weeks annual leave with our buy and sell holiday scheme, company pension scheme, CPD, professional membership fees paid, staff discount scheme, CVS sharesave scheme, enhanced maternity and paternity leave pay, employee assistance programme, career progression, perk box offering a suite of discounts…
What to do now:
To arrange to have an informal confidential chat about the role, the practice and what help we can offer with relocation, please call or text Lisa on 07901 223 740. To apply via our on line portal, where we will contact you to arrange a chat, click ‘Apply Now'.
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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