Veterinary Surgeon – Equine and Farm Full Time

Job description

If you are a current Linnaeus Associate, you will need to apply internally. In order to do this, please contact our Talent Acquisition team (details can be found via The Link) and someone will be in touch to discuss and progress your application.

Job Title: Equine and Farm Veterinary Surgeon

Salary: Up to £65,000 (D.O.E.) Plus up to £5,000 welcome bonus (direct applicants) or relocation package available

Location: Shires Vets Farm, Staffordshire

Job Type: Permanent, full-time

Shires Vets Equine and Farm are recruiting for an additional sixth Veterinary surgeon. We are looking for someone with 4-5 years experience, who is wanting to progress to a lead vet/clinical director position and has a passion for supporting younger team members whilst advancing their own career.

The work load will be biased towards equine but will entail the odd farm call and farm OOH work.

What we Offer
• Salary initially £60-65K depending on experience for a lead vet (progression to a clinical director will have a salary uplift)
• Annual leave of 25 working days plus bank holidays and birthday off
• Eventual 1:6 ooh rota (currently 1:5 due to GDP support)
• Time off in lieu for on call duties
• Normal working day 08.30am-17.00pm (half hour unpaid lunch) 40 hour week
• Professional subscriptions paid
• Private health insurance
• Life assurance
• 5 days CPD fully funded (further days are available for certificate study)
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Enhanced equal family leave

About us.

We are currently a close knit, supportive, 5 vet ambulatory team based in the picturesque village of Eccleshall in Staffordshire. Our equine business is expanding rapidly and caters for pleasure and local level competition horses. On the farm side we have some dairy work but are mainly beef, sheep and smallholder.

We have all the expected equipment for an enthusiastic ambulatory practice, some of which you can see below.
• Portable digital battery x-ray
• Videoscope (respiratory and gastroscope)
• Oroscope
• Laser
• Motorised dental kit (one per vet)
• Shock wave
• Tendon, abdominal and rectal scanners.
• Bull and ram fertility testing kit
• In house lab for basic blood profiles and WEC.
• Post mortem and small ruminant surgery room.

Why Join Us?

We are a great team with a fantastic sense of humour who strongly support each other to get through our very busy days. We have a progressive, passionate view and regularly help each other out with those awkward cases. Overall we try to offer outstanding yet friendly service to our valued clients.

At Shires we are deeply embedded in our local community sponsoring and participating in events such as Eccleshall Show, Eccleshall in bloom and the Eccleshall festival. We also put on several client evenings each year.

Shires Vets are part of the Linnaeus group who are in turn part of Mars (the largest family owned veterinary company in the world). As a result of this we are actively collaborating with other Mars horse care companies such as Spillers who we run regular weighbridge and nutritional advice clinics with.

Next Steps

If you are ready for the next stage in your career and want to be involved in managing an expanding young dynamic team please get in touch with us.

You can either complete the quick application form below or for more information please contact Lissa at Lissa.Semerdak@linnaeusgroup.co.uk or call 07523 268918.

Or if you would prefer a more informal initial approach please contact us directly at paul.snape@shiresvets.com 01785 850218 (reception) 07968375095 (Paul).

If you would like to know what we are like to work for please contact Mollie King at mollie.king@shiresvets.com one of our wonderful associates……..

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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. If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@linnaeusgroup.co.uk