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Small Animal Vet - Longwell Green

Employer
CVS (UK) Limited
Location
Longwell Green, Bristol
Salary
Competitive Salary Plus Benefits
Closing date
5 Apr 2021

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Category
Companion / Small animal
Sector
Practice
Role
Veterinary Surgeon
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full-time

Job Details

Are you looking for a new role in Bristol?

An exciting opportunity has opened up at our beautiful Longwell Green branch for a new Veterinary Surgeon with proven experience to join the team.

We are an RCVS Accredited first opinion small animal practice with an “Outstanding” award in customer care. You would be joining a friendly and motivated team and will have access to a range of equipment including; lap spay equipment, digital X-ray, in house lab equipment and monitoring equipment.

The team currently has 6 full time Vets with a wide range of experience and interests to learn from. There is also a brilliant nursing team to support and provide overnight inpatient care. Longwell Green is the main site of 4 in South West Bristol and this is where the role will largely be based.

This is a full time position working 4.5 days per week , 1:3 Saturdays and 1:9 Sunday,. On call for inpatients once a week. We value the work / life balance so you will receive 1 weekday off every other week and a day off following any Sundays worked! Ideally you will be comfortable working sole charge, have at least 3 years experience in small animal practice and have an interest in helping us further develop our offering in medicine, imaging or quality improvement.

Highcroft as a whole spans 11 branches across Bristol and Somerset as well as a 24/7 referral hospital. This is an excellent opportunity to enter the group!

Some of our amazing benefits include

  • Up to 7 weeks annual leave with our buy/sell holiday scheme
  • Competitive Salary up to £43K DOE
  • RCVS, VDS and CPD paid
  • Attractive salary and bonus scheme
  • Industry leading Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay
  • Access to Perkbox, Sharesave, Cycle to work and much more!

Does this sound like the position for you? If so click Apply Now or contact Lauren in our Recruitment Team on 07506643490 for further details.

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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