Veterinary Surgeon - Weekend - Roving
The Vacancy
Gillingham, Ashford & Herne Bay - Veterinary Surgeon - Weekend - Roving
Up to £45ph DOE plus benefits
Make your weekends work at Vets Now
Whether you are working a second job or looking to get more ECC experience, this is a great opportunity to further your own knowledge and work with a team who are passionate about progressing the world of emergency and critical care.
As a roving Vet Surgeon, you will thrive within an ever-changing environment spending your time across 3 different emergency clinics in the Kent area, giving you exposure to a diverse range of cases that you simply won’t see in general practice. The clinics you will cover in this position will include our Gillingham, Ashford and Herne Bay clinics.
Working out-of-hours doesn’t mean working all hours
This weekend roving role will involve working day shifts across the various clinics. Working alternate weekends, the shift times would typically cover (with some backshifts available):
- Saturday: 12pm – 7.30pm
- Sunday: 8.30am – 7.30pm
- Plus a fair share of bank holidays
Develop your skills with an interesting caseload
With such a varied caseload, emergency Vets will be continually challenged medically and surgically. This is an opportunity for an individual that likes to work in a larger team whilst being supported with a strong mentoring and development ethos.
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 six months full pay
- Family-friendly policies including paternity and adoption pay schemes
- Seven weeks pro rata annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Paid volunteering days
- £1,500 CPD allowance plus 35 paid hours pro rata
- ECC certificate support – financial and paid study leave
- Access to our ‘Edge’ programmes
- RCVS fees, VECCS membership and 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
Give yourself the AdvantEdge
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 be considered for this role, please click apply. To get in touch with Angie in our Talent team to discuss further, please email angie.ritchie@vets-now.com or call 078 150 15538.
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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