Senior Veterinary Surgeon

In this riverside London village nestled in Southwest London, home to the starting point of the annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race is our popular first opinion GP Putney clinic. The team are looking for a part-time senior vet to help in growing this popular Putney practice further.

About your new role!

Our Putney practice location has a true London 'village' atmosphere, just a short walk from the River Thames, Putney High Street, and Putney Station.

The rota for this position is Monday, Thursday and Friday with a crossover day on Mondays with your associate vet to help with Monday madness!

Your rota is inclusive of a 1:3 branch Saturday and 1:10 hospital Sunday rotation, plus 1 bank holiday per year. There are NO on-call requirements.

Our Putney team currently includes 1 associate vet (who has absolutely hit the ground running since starting!) and fantastic clinical support team who have a passion for building strong bonds with their established client base and providing exemplary patient care.

We are going through a new era in Putney and are also recruiting for a senior RVN so you will have a blank page of a practice to build up as a new team. If you have a RVN friend or colleague that is also looking for a new senior opportunity, this could be an ideal package deal and you would be eligible for a refer a friend bonus!

Responsibilities

• Oversee prescription request administration to ensure that client requests are processed in a timely and accurate manner, that dispensed items are paid for, and that uncollected prescriptions are returned to stock in line with company policy.
• Oversee the consulting and surgical/diagnostic diary in compliance with company policies.
• Provide site-level induction to new starter colleagues and locums.
• Ensure that regular branch meetings are scheduled, minutes taken and actions completed.
• Carry out consultations, thoroughly examining all pets presented and making management and treatment recommendations which are based on best practice and are evidence-based and in accordance with GVG protocols.
• Perform surgery on cases as appropriate and within boundaries of personal competence and limitation of overnight care.
• Be prepared to refer cases in a timely manner, in the first instance to a GVG Hospital, when there is an inability to undertake a case for whatever reason.
• Help to maintain a respectful and collaborative team environment.
• Record accurate and thorough clinical notes and ensure that pets' histories are accurate comprehensive and useful to colleagues.

The clients at Putney are amazing, incredibly bonded to the team and are largely insured.

If you have a keen interest in diagnostic imaging, we have recently procured ultrasound facilities within the practice.

You will be fully supported by a dedicated regional manager, and our 24-hour Stone Lion hospital that is just a 15-minute drive away, where you can refer more complex cases, and who also provide our OOH services.

You will also have additional clinical support from our integral regional head vet Julie, who has a wealth of clinical and management knowledge to pass on.

Leadership training will be provided if this is your first official leadership position. Benefits

The salary band for this part-time senior role inclusive of weekend rotation is £53,120 to £70,550 (this is £64,000 to £85,000 FTE based on a 40 hour week) depending on prior experience, and development within the role.

• 6.6 weeks annual leave including bank holidays (pro rata)
• Generous relocation assistance (where applicable)
• CPD budget every year
• 5 days' paid CPD leave every year (pro-rata if part-time)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Colleague introduction reward (for the introduction of vets and RVN's)
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
• Medical cashback plan. Refunds on many routine medical costs such as dental care, physiotherapy, optician, chiropractic fees, and more
• Professional membership fees covered

About us

In 2022, we celebrated our 70th anniversary and now have 46 branches, three hospitals and our own nurse training college. We value all of our colleagues, and our forward-looking approach means we have introduced a Colleague Forum to listen to our peers' views, as well as monthly Town Hall meetings with our board of directors communicating real time updates and taking polls with live Q&A to ensure we're making the right, collaborative decisions for our people. All our senior managers are mental health first aid trained and we offer Wellness plans for all new starters.