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Senior Vet / Clinical Director - Nottinghamshire

Employer
CVS (UK) Limited
Location
Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Salary
Attractive Salary Plus Benefits
Closing date
12 May 2021

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

Job Details

Clinical Director or Senior Vet – Thompsons Veterinary Surgery – No OOH or On Call!

Looking for that next step in your career? Enjoy supporting and taking the lead? We have a great opportunity for a Clinical Director / Senior Vet at Thompsons Veterinary Surgery in Sutton-In-Ashfield.

Based within excellent surroundings (Etwall House, old build which has  been completely refurbished!) We are a well-equipped first opinion small animal practice. We really have a great friendly & vibrant team who all care and look out for each other. You will enjoy working with a varied caseload and lovely clients. Having an in-house digital x-ray, ultra sound and laboratory for diagnostic testing and an external laboratory for more specialized tests. You will be involved in the budget planning throughout the year, enabling new equipment to brought into the clinic and the team upskilled in new procedures.

We are based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. 12 miles north of Nottingham, 2 miles from the Derbyshire border, this is a great location offering good transport links.

You will be an excellent communicator that can dynamically lead a clinical team, whilst being instrumental in strategically planning, facilitating and delivering regulatory compliance. This is a full time position working 40 hours per week, over 4 or 5 days, to include some Saturday mornings.

Clinical director role is to support clinical leadership across the practice and support a ‘4 vet team’ to include a new graduate starting in September. This role is open for applicants who may be interested in either a Clinical Director or Senior Vet role or stepping in to a clinical leadership for the first time and willing to undertake any training . Working alongside the Practice Manager. This role is open to discussion on split of any management and clinical areas and is important to get the right person so if you are interested in how this role would suit you !

 Further benefits include:

  • Attractive salary, benefits and NEW lucrative profit sharing bonus scheme
  • Up to 7 weeks holiday a year + Bank Holidays on our buy sell holiday scheme
  • Ongoing CPD tailored around your skills and interests
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity benefits
  • RCVS and VDS fees covered
  • Discounted pet products and services
  • Access to our sharesave scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme and discounted membership at over 2,000 participating health clubs.
  • Perkbox

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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