Veterinary Surgeon

Veterinary Surgeon:

Part Time

£60,000 (DOE) (FTE) pro rata 

Stow veterinary surgeons has been serving the surrounding area for over 200 years. Our purpose built premises in Stow on the wold was opened in 2001. Here we have 4 consult rooms, 3 wards, 2 theatres and separate dental and imaging rooms along with a spacious reception and prep room. We also have 4 branches which are a consult and reception room only, in the lovely nearby villages of Burford, Northleach, Milton under Wychwood and Moreton in the Marsh. We have dental xray and bronchoscope endoscope and laproscope equipment, along with digital xray and contempary ultrasound.

We have a team of 6 part time receptionists and 2 practice administrators; 8 care assistants and 6 nurses; 8 vets and a groomer. We do our own out of hours for which we have a care assistant on site, a nurse and vet oncall from home, and a senior vet for backup, not all roles require out of hours. We share the shifts so most weeks a vet would spend a day on theatre, a day on consults, and a day on branch consults, visiting one village in the morning and one village in the afternoon. Our full time vets work 4 days a week, to but several of the team already enjoy a 3 day week, plus equally shared weekends and oncall. Part time we can consider 1 or 2 days a week, or mornings only, with a share of saturdays and backup oncall. We would also consider saturday only rotas. 

We work in an area where many clients are insured and we are able to provide the best care to their pets. However we also look after the blue cross pet rehoming charity at Burford, which means we get a good caseload of neutering, dentals and lumpectomies ideal for recent graduates to learn, or vets returning from a break to get back up to speed. The team have regular lunches together in the workday and along with practice events such as Christmas do and summer bbq arrange their own outings. The practice also attends a few local events each year at village fetes for example.

Stow on the Wold is a lovely cotswold town just 15 minutes from Chipping Norton and Bourton on the water. The surrounding beautiful countryside is full of great pubs and stately homes along with attractions such as cotswold wildlife park and farm park, and Jeremys Clarksons Diddy Squat Farm. By road within an hour you can visit Cirencester with its water park, or the city of Cheltenham. By Rail Oxford is just 30 minutes and London only 90 minutes. For Air travel Birmingham airport is an hours drive away. 

Apart from working alongside a fantastic team, you get to enjoy the following fantastic benefits:

• Competitive salary
• CertAVP funding
• Generous CPD Budget
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (+ 1 additional day every year, up to 5 years), as well as the opportunity to sell/ buy up to 2 weeks holiday - pro rata
• VDS and RCVS fees covered
• Staff discount
• Employee assistance programme
• Save as you Earn scheme
• Voluntary Private Medical insurance scheme
• Health cash plan
• Fantastic Maternity, Paternity & joint parental leave plans
• Fertility & pregnancy loss policy

Interested? For more information or an informal chat contact Andy at andrew.leffers@cvsvets.com

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