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Your role and responsibilities
The Lead Veterinary Surgeon’s role is key to the team’s ability to succeed. You would be leading the team and working clinically alongside the vets, nurses and client care team at the site. The Lead Vet is responsible for managing the clinical activities of the vets and acts as the first line of management for the vet team, developing the team to optimise uptake of clinical services.
The Lead Vets work closely with, and assist, the CD to provide leadership, co-ordination, ensure adequate cover for shifts, appropriate training and development to their team and undertake the clinical duties of a vet.
We are keen to support certificates for our associates, where we can for personal and business development. We understand the need to be flexible with working hours and are open to discussing the ideal role for you. We welcome full and part-time applications.
Some more things to know about us:
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Our ethos is clinical excellence, and we try and live by our core values
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Client and patient care are at the heart of what we do
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We are a Cat Friendly Silver accredited practice
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We are working towards our Dog Friendly accreditation.
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We have achieved the Investors in the Environment Bronze award
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We prioritise mental health and wellbeing with a team of trained Mental Health First Aiders in the practice
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Work life balance is important to us with our 40hr week being offered over 4 or 5days depending on preference. We have reduced our opening time on the Saturday to allow for a better work life balance.
Benefits
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5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
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RCVS & VDS fees paid
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CPD fully funded up to £1.5K and 5 days out of the practice for CPD
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Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
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Career progression opportunities
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Staff discount schemes
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Life Assurance
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Enhanced sickness pay
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Enhanced equal family leave
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E-car salary sacrifice scheme
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Employer contribution pension scheme
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Wellness program including:
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Employee assistance program
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Eyecare voucher scheme
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Free annual Flu jab
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Cycle to work scheme
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Recruitment referral reward scheme
About us
St Clair Vets are a busy Primary Care, small animal practice, RCVS accredited, with 2 branch surgeries. We are working closely with our in- House Ophthalmology referral vets, who are based at the Kirkcaldy veterinary centre. Our practice has long history in caring for pets in our community and we pride ourselves on providing the very best care and service for our pets and their owners. Our wonderful Team is at the heart of St Clair Vet – we are one big family!
We enjoy being part of our communities and participate in local events, like Race for life to raise money and encourage team members to take part. St Clair Vet also holds regular social events including Bake offs, Easter Egg hunts, Munro climbing and the famous annual Christmas party.
As an Associate at St Clair Vet, you will be joining a friendly and enthusiastic, large, team of vets across our sites. Across the group we also have an experienced nursing team (including certificate holders in ECC and Exotics) & a wonderful client care team who support us daily.
Here at St Clair Vet, we offer some fantastic ophthalmology referral, and orthopaedic surgery and medicine services, but we equally champion our primary care vets, and the fantastic service we offer for routine and first opinion caseloads.
As a team, we often discuss clinical cases and have monthly team meetings to share knowledge and communications. We work closely with VSS, a local referral centre, who support us with additional in-house CPD events and with difficult cases.
Our variety of experience levels means that we have been able to offer a fantastic new graduate programme that offers great support. We are a nurse training practice and work closely with local universities & training colleges too. We, therefore, have plenty of opportunities for mentoring if this is something you enjoy.
In your spare time, there is a lot to enjoy locally. St Clair Vet is based in wonderful Fife, close to Edinburgh to enjoy some city life and close to the Cairngorms for hiking adventures and the sea for beach walking and water activities. We have excellent travel links, access to good schools and beautiful countryside.
At Linnaeus, we are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our 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 Program which is available for everyone.
Part of an amazing global family Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates. The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. Our Associates are fundamental to our success, and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates. Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates. If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@linnaeusgroup.co.uk