Professional veterinary recruitment

Permanent Night Veterinary Surgeon - Chichester, West Sussex

• Are you a qualified and RCVS registered veterinary surgeon?
• Do you enjoy ECC work?
• Are you looking for a flexible rota pattern?

We are recruiting a Permanent Night ECC Veterinary Surgeon to join a state of the art animal hospitals in Chichester or Storrington in West Sussex. This is an independent practice offering a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities and equipment along with offering a highly experience team of Veterinary Surgeons and Nurses. The team comprise of Vets and Nurse with advanced certificate training.

This is an opportunity for a Vet to use all their veterinary skills and experience in an ECC environment, looking after emergency patients and hospitalised inpatients.

They practice are looking for caring ECC Vets to be part of their team within the hospital. The night vets work on annualised hours contracts.Mostly the current Vet team enjoy 7 shifts on and 14 shifts off, 3 shifts on and 7 shifts off, or 4 shifts on and 7 shifts off, all on rolling patterns. This can be discussed at interview.

The practice is committed to delivering a high standard of clinical care and strongly believe in case continuity. They are dedicated to developing good working relationships with both referring Vets along with clients so that a precise treatment strategy can be moulded to such each patient.

The role will provide veterinary emergency and critical care outside of the hospital hours. The Vets will be working with an experienced RVN all night, plus have the support of a second RVN on a twilight shift until 2am. There are no day weekend shifts, our shifts on a rolling basis and nights only.

The practice offers state of the art operating facilities, ultrasound, endoscopy suites, dog and cat wards and onsite parking.

• High dependency care facilities available for critical care patients
• State of the art operating theatre
• Radiography
• In House laboratory & dispensary
• Air conditioning
• Isolation ward
• Triage room

Key details:

• Type: Small animal
• Hours: Part time, variety of shift patterns available
• Weekends: Yes
• OOH: Yes
• Sole charge: None
• Team: Large veterinary team
• Computer system: Bespoke
• Consultations: 15 minutes

About them:

• Independent and forward-thinking independent practice
• Brand new state of the art facilities
• Supportive and friendly practice - provides training and mentoring
• Offers an excellent work-life balance
• Offers career progression with support and funding in further education
• Provides a vast range of modern veterinary services and facilities
• Provides state of the art equipment
• Excellent reputation within the community
• Offers opportunity to expand clinical skill set and knowledge
• Friendly and motivated team in place
• Practice provides clinical freedom for personal growth and development

About you:

• You will always deliver a high standard of clinical care
• Ideally you will be an advanced practitioner in Emergency and Critical Care or an experienced ECC vet who has worked in veterinary hospitals
• You will have excellent customer facing skills
• You will work well within the team alongside other veterinary specialists and clinicians
• You will be passionate and dedicated to ECC work
• You will be a passionate and motivated veterinary surgeon with a genuine interest for animal welfare
• For experienced Vets you will offer mentoring and coaching where required and share best practice
• You will be ambitious to develop your clinical skill set and knowledge
• You will enjoy working within a busy practice with a wide variety of cases

Package:

• Salary: £60,000 to £72,000 pro rata, commensurate to experience
• Holidays: 7 weeks annual leave pro rata
• CPD: Generous allowance of £1,500
• Memberships: RCVS and VDS fees paid
• Certificates funded and supported
• Employee wellebing support
• Exclusive company discounts and rewards
• Workplace pension scheme
• Health insurance scheme
• Staff discount

Must haves:

• RCVS registered and qualified or soon to be
• Possess the right to work in the United Kingdom
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

What happens next?

CLICK APPLY NOW or if you have any pre-application questions or if this role is not quite right for you, please contact the Vet Seekers team (details below) to discuss your veterinary career aspirations further.

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