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Small Animal Vet - Whitstable

Employer
CVS (UK) Limited
Location
Whitstable, Kent
Salary
Competitive Salary Plus Benefits
Closing date
15 Jul 2021

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Job Details

Are you excited about exotics or optimistic about orthopaedics?

Well our Animed Veterinary Centre Whitstable practice are seeking vibrant vet!

Whatever your interests we want to embrace them and watch your skills flourish. We are currently seeking a Small Animal Veterinary Surgeon to join our amazing team and help grow Animed Veterinary Centre. Animed is a two branch RCVS accredited training practice in sunny Whitstable on the Kent coast. We have 7 vets, 5 RVNs, 3 PCAs & an experienced reception & support team.

What we can offer you:

  • 15 minute consults in no more than 2.5 hour blocks.
  • Admin time factored into your week. So you don't have to squeeze client calls in between consults!
  • Purpose built premises and a range of equipment including digital X-ray and dental X-ray, ultrasound, endoscopes and laparoscopic kit.
  • Support and CPD to grow your veterinary career.
  • Up to 7 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays with our buy/sell holiday scheme.
  • VDS & RCVS fees covered
  • Staff discount scheme
  • Perkbox staff benefits scheme
  • Opportunity to join the company sharesave scheme and share in the success of our business.

About the job:

  • 40hr week over 4 days, although we can be flexible and will consider part time/jobshare - finding the right person for our team is the most important thing!
  • A share of the weekend rota (1:5 Saturdays 8am-5pm only).
  • No OOH
  • Salary negotiable dependent on experience, starting from 35k + bonus

What you can offer us:

  • A passion for high quality care and the desire to progress and grow with us.
  • Help support our newly qualified team members. 
  • Happy to do a mix of consults and surgery and deliver great customer care.
  • Willingness to work across both our Whitstable and Beltinge sites. Beltinge is sole charge but no major ops or treatment is carried out at the branch.


 

What's in the area?

  • Whitstable is a lovely seaside town in Kent, famous for its oysters. In fact every year it holds an oyster festival in August!
  • Canterbury is the nearest large city, with plenty of places to shop and dine.
  • London is only a 1hr 17m on the train or just 55m if you get the fast train from Canterbury.
  • Sun, Sea and Sand what more could you want!


 

We aren't perfect, we don't always get things right but our Animed management team promise to keep trying and will listen to what you have to say! If you'd like to know more please email me at Jane.Lewis@animedvets.com or contact Sian.lory@cvsvets.com to apply.

Small Animal Vet / SA Vet / Veterinary Surgeon / Experienced SA Vet / Senior SA Vet /Full Time / Job

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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