Veterinary Surgeon - Part-Time
The Vacancy
Hemel Hempstead - Veterinary Surgeon - Part-Time
Up to £75,000 DOE pro rata plus benefits
Are you ready for a work life less ordinary?
This is an excellent opportunity for a Vet Surgeon to become part of our welcoming team at Vets Now Hemel Hempstead.
Our Hemel Hempstead clinic offers a good balanced caseload, including a small number of charity cases. At Vets Now Hemel Hempstead you will also find a dedicated and experienced team, who are passionate about progressing the world of emergency and critical care.
Hemel Hempstead as a location has excellent transport links including access to the M1 and M25, and trains going cross-country (as well as into London), whilst also being close to both Luton and Heathrow airports.
Working out-of-hours doesn’t mean working all hours
At Vets Now we champion work/life balance and understand how important this is for our people. In this part-time role you will work an average of 1 weeknight shift per week and 1:3 weekend days, plus a fair share of bank holidays.
Shift times available at our Hemel Hempstead clinic typically include:
- Night shifts: 19:00 - 09:00
- Saturday day shifts: 12:00 -19:30
- Sunday / bank holiday day shifts: 08:30 - 19:30
Take control of your own career progression
At Vets Now, you will benefit from mentorship and support, and with our excellent training and development opportunities, you will have a platform to thrive in an out of hours environment. Working in this ECC setting you will see a varied caseload which will sharpen and develop your veterinary skills.
We look after you, so you can look after them
At Vets Now we recognise that our people are what makes us. That’s why we are continuing to invest in first class reward and recognition benefits and initiatives.
- Private medical insurance
- Membership of employee wellbeing programme
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced maternity policy including 6 months full pay
- Family-friendly policies including paternity and adoption pay schemes
- 7 weeks pro rata annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Paid volunteering days
- £1500 CPD allowance plus 35 paid hours pro rata
- ECC certificate support – financial and paid study leave
- RCVS fees
- VECCS membership
- VDS cover
- Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
- UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer
- Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
- Death in service of two times annual salary
Enhanced induction
At Vets Now, we are passionate about training and the ongoing development of our employees. If this vacancy is of interest and you feel you would benefit from an enhanced induction into our business, then the below option may be perfect for you: AdvantEdge - Two-week programme for experienced, talented Vets that will fast track them into a successful emergency role.
To discuss further, please contact Anne in our Talent team through anne.longmire@vets-now.com or call 07860 404646
The Company
As the UK’s leading pet emergency service, we have a route to an exciting career in emergency and critical care for veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary nurses, no matter where you are in your career.
Vets Now was founded by Richard Dixon, a veterinary surgeon who understood the pressures of being on-call which also trying to maintain a good quality of life.
Today, almost two decades since Richard did his first out-of-hours shift, we’re still just as passionate about emergency and critical care and our clinics are all managed by people who have worked as frontline vets or vet nurses.
In an emergency, pet owners want to know they’ve got the experts on board. And so do we.
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