Job Description

Flexible opportunity to join our new clinic team in Ipswich from the beginning. This will be a very rewarding role with excellent career development opportunities. As the rota is currently pretty much a blank canvas, this role offers you the opportunity to have the flexible working pattern and work-life balance you’ve always wanted.

Role Summary
Working in Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) with Vets Now is an interesting, varied and highly rewarding environment, giving you a unique chance to utilise and develop a very broad range of surgical and medical skills.

As part of a small clinic team (working as a sole charge vet, alongside a receptionist and a qualified veterinary nurse), this rewarding hands-on role includes anaesthesia, surgery and clinical procedures seeing you make a real difference in critical cases. Due to the nature of ECC medicine, you won't know what to expect on each shift, but will be equipped with the facilities, training and support network to handle any case with the highest standards of clinical and client care.

This role is an excellent platform for developing your career. You’ll benefit from ongoing training and investment in your clinical skills and CPD, including access to our regular on-site training programme. What’s more helping our employees to continually progress how they’d like is really important to us. Many of our people move up to a senior role within their clinic or take advantage of the training and the growth in our company to relocate and progress.

Working Pattern
As a rough guide, full time at Vets Now typically means an average of just 3 night shifts per week with a share of weekend days & public holiday days.

Shift times (to be confirmed) are a share of: Monday to Friday nights from 6.30pm to 8.30am, Saturday night 6pm-9am and Sunday night 6pm to 8.30am), plus a share of weekend day shifts (Saturdays 12noon-6pm, Sundays 9am-6pm) and your share of bank holidays.

Clinic Description
Vets Now Ipswich is due to open summer 2010 to provide an Out Of Hours emergency service on behalf of Member Practices across the region. Based in a modern and friendly private practice, with excellent facilities, the clinic will provide a lovely working environment. You’ll have access to the latest equipment, including a digital x-ray, ECG, I stats, IDEXX machine, Multi parameter monitor and flexible and rigid endoscope.

Who we’re looking for
You don’t necessarily need to have lots of experience of Emergency and Critical Care. In our opinion, ECC is really about doing good quality medicine well, and of course developing your ECC skills through ongoing training. So all we ask is that you are fully qualified, RCVS registered and have a minimum of 6 months experience working within an English speaking small animal practice. You should also be comfortable working sole charge, confident in your clinical ability and of course legally eligible to work in the UK.

Your CPD
We’re passionate about developing our people and their skills. You’ll receive clinical skills development and paid veterinary CPD through our tailored On-Site Training Programme, a thorough full induction, as well as a very generous CPD allowance to develop your own particular ECC areas of interest. So whether you’re from an ECC background or not, our induction and ongoing CPD will provide the foundation for a great career with us.

Your Package
You will be well rewarded as we offer a competitive salary, and access to our excellent flexible benefits package, which can be tailored to meet your individual needs and lifestyle. You’ll also be eligible for our Clinic Bonus Scheme, which for an on target performance can add at least 2.5% of your salary. In addition, we provide a regional allowance in selected locations.

Other lifestyle benefits include generous discounts with a wide range of leading UK and international retailers and the holiday allowance for full time permanent employees is 28 days (pro rata for part time).

Next Steps
If the enjoyment of Emergency and Critical Care, our culture, a better work/life balance and the training is appealing then please get in touch!

To apply please click ”Apply now” button below, or for an informal chat about this or other roles, please call us on 01383 841181.