Experienced Surgical Vet

Full Job Description

Job Title : Experienced Surgical Vet

Salary : From £65,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

Location : St Clair Vets, Kirkcaldy

Job Type : Permanent

Hours : 40hours over 4-5days (rota open to negotiation)

Your role and responsibilities 

We are looking for an enthusiastic, all-rounder vet, who enjoys all elements of small animal work to include consulting, and involvement in urgent and emergency cases as needed, but has found their true calling in being a surgical vet.

This role would be suitable for a veterinary surgeon looking to take their next steps in working independently, leading the surgical aspect of our work by establishing new procedures to grow their personal skill set and the business, aiming to continuously improve patient care and care quality and teaching less experienced vets.

We have a large team with many areas of interest including imaging and surgery and offer each other support and guidance. Our strongest asset is our team and we are passionate about progression and professional growth.

As a team member in St Clair, you will have a voice to create change and to innovate, to improve the quality of our patient and client experience and work in an environment where wellbeing is of significant importance.  

We actively encourage professional development including fully funded certificate, so please do speak to us about your professional interests or goals that you may have, we would love to support you where possible.

Duties may include: 

· Building St Clair's surgical case load and looking for continuous ways to improve surgical quality and increase our procedure portfolio

· Performing high-quality medicine and surgery 

· Working closely with the Lead Vets and Senior Leadership Team to further develop the clinic

· Ensuring we are consistently delivering quality patient and client service. 

Benefits

· 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave

· RCVS and VDS fees paid

· External CPD funded

· Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program

· Career progression opportunities

· Staff discount schemes

· Life Assurance

· Enhanced sickness pay

· Enhanced equal family leave

· E-car salary sacrifice scheme

· Employer contribution pension scheme

· Wellness program including:

· Employee assistance program

· Eyecare voucher scheme

· Free annual Flu jab

· Cycle to work scheme

· 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 hospital. Our practice has long history in caring for pets in our community and we pride ourselves on providing the absolute best care and service for our pets and their owners.

Our wonderful Team is important to us, and we pride ourselves in supporting each team member in their personal and professional journey. 

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 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. It is important to us that each team member has a voice and is heard. 

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. 

We would love to hear from you, please contact if you have any questions about the role or to apply, please complete the application form below.

Salary Value: £65,000 per annum;

Salary Description: From and depending on experience;

We are proud to be Linnaeus, part of Mars.

Linnaeus is a forward-thinking group of highly respected primary care and specialist referral practices in the UK and Ireland. Being family owned and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the largest veterinary company in the world , allows us to focus on advancing the veterinary profession to provide industry-leading pet care and unique career opportunities for our people.

Why Linnaeus?

-     We pride ourselves in offering high-quality excellence of service and clinical care for our clients and their pets

-     We lead on sustainability and collectively drive positive change for people, pets and the planet

-     We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing – valuing equity, diversity and inclusion

-     We support your personal and professional development with best-in-class career frameworks and training programmes. We will empower and support you to grow your career from day one.

We team up within our Mars family in partnership for a stronger future .

Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We treat each other fairly and equitably and we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our Associates.

At Linnaeus, A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people.