Job Title : Veterinary Surgeon

Salary : Up to £60,000 per annum FTE (dependent on experience)

Location : Calder Vets (Sandal)

Job Type : Permanent, Full-Time (Part-Time applications welcome)

Hours : 40hrs FTE (No out of hours)

Your role and responsibilities

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Veterinary Surgeon to join our Sandal branch.

​Sandal is growing and expanding following its recent renovations. We have brand new, high-end facilities including kennels/cattery, sterile ops theatre, radiography, ultrasound, dental machine and dental radiography, in-house laboratory, consultation rooms, reception, office, and kitchen.

We are looking for a capable surgeon to operate roughly 4 hours a day, followed by 2-4 hours of consulting. We can build a rota to suit you, a 40-hour week usually fits into 3.5 days at Calder, but there is a lot of flex here and we can accommodate you.

Whilst this is a new role and therefore initially may find there to be a lot of routine procedures there is scope to grow the surgical service into making it your own taking more exciting casework as you develop.

With recent additions to our team, a new lead nurse, and a senior client care administrator we have a keen and well-motivated team raring to make this clinic one of the best with everything it has to offer!

You will have the support of the larger Calder team and our wealth of clinical knowledge. Engagement is a priority at Calder, with monthly site meetings, check-in meetings with your lead vet every 2 weeks, and monthly invites to meetings for all our vets therefore you will always have your say in what matters to you.

Sandal is a small, tight-knit dedicated team keen to support and welcome anyone new joining our team.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave

• RCVS & VDS fees paid

• External CPD funded

• Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program

• Career progression opportunities

• Staff discount schemes

• Life Assurance

• Enhanced sickness pay

• Enhanced equal family leave

• E-car salary sacrifice scheme

• Employer contribution pension scheme

• Wellness program including:

• Employee assistance program

• Eyecare voucher scheme

• Free annual Flu jab

• Cycle to work scheme

• Recruitment referral reward scheme

Associates. We have an amazing team of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our practices and central support office in addition to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available for everyone.

About us

The main site is purpose built and includes the following:

• Attractive building with good client parking and large client bases

• Large waiting room with separate cat/dog areas

• Friendly well-established team

• Comfortable, spacious staff rest area

• Air-conditioned consulting rooms

• 15-minute consults minimum

• Silver Cat Friendly

• Fully equipped theatres

• Xray, good quality ultrasound scanner and CT on site. Visiting MRI

• Dental area with X-ray

• Middle tier referrals seen on site

All sites are cat, dog and rabbit friendly and have a well-established friendly team. They are all equipped with blood machines, ultra-sound and good first opinion kit.

Sandal is a lovely area- nice pubs, nice walks, nice golf courses, nice people.

Calder has a long-established reputation for clinical excellence and are looking for a colleague who would share in our core values. We are also a friendly, welcoming, supportive team who enjoy bringing fun into the workplace; we have a dedicated Champions Team who organise regular events. We are strong advocates for wellbeing at work with trained mental health advisors available on site and we firmly believe that all associates should have a voice within the company. We believe that sustainability is an important part of our future and we have just been awarded Investors in the Environment Bronze Award.

If you would like to apply for the role or for an informal chat to discuss it further, please get in touch with Vicky.Tanday@linnaeusgroup.co.uk