The Role

The Lake View Vet Group is looking for a Senior Veterinary Surgeon to help lead and develop their clinical team. Full time and part time applications considered. Just 1 in 3 Saturday mornings, with no OOH and no Sundays. For all of your hard work we offer an attractive benefits package including a top salary for the right candidate.

About Us

Lake View Vets are a “family” that really enjoy their working days together. We all support each other and aspire to provide the highest standards in client and patient care. We have a wonderful, dedicated vet team working closely with our fantastic, experienced team of veterinary nurses and our warm and friendly support staff. We are a 100% small animal practice with a varied caseload. We have a progressive attitude and are inclusive in our approach to change. We work up our cases thoroughly and understand the importance of continuity for both client, patient, and clinician. We have a wonderful, loyal client base who you will grow to know well during your time at Lake View Vets. Our large, purpose-built practice provides a really light, spacious, modern and low stress environment for us to work in. We have all the equipment you will need when you come to work in a quality practice; dental suite with digital x-ray, new ultrasound with colour, two K-Lasers, digital x-ray, endoscopy, full in-house Idexx laboratory, gold standard anaesthesia using Humphrey ADE circuits, multiparameter monitors, patient warming, oxygen generators and more. Northamptonshire is a lovely rural county to live in and accommodation is plentiful and reasonably priced. Cambridge and Milton Keynes are an easy drive and London a short train journey. If you want to enjoy doing your job with great people, have plenty of time to talk to your colleagues and your clients and still have plenty of energy left to enjoy your time outside work please come and visit us and see for yourself how much we enjoy being vets and nurses. To avoid missing out on this fantastic opportunity please get in touch!

Applicant Requirements

We are looking for someone to take a lead role in the large and varied caseload based at our Lake View Thrapston clinic which includes internal referrals. You will be responsible for clinical governance and for staff and graduate training. The right candidate will be experienced and confident in all first opinion duties, enjoy mentoring and be supportive of others. You will be self-motivated, confident, a great team player and committed to upholding the highest standards in client and patient care. We encourage and support all CPD up to CertGP and AVP level.

As a Disability Confident Employer we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long term health conditions, and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

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