Vets Now High Manchester are welcoming out-of-hours (OOH) Veterinary Surgeon applications, from Vets with a passion for Emergency and Critical Care, to join their team. Vets Now is the UK’s leading provider of Emergency Veterinary Care, with a nationwide network of out-of-hours clinics and 24/7 emergency hospitals. As part of Inspiring Vet Care, our teams make a difference to pets and their owners when they need us most.
We have an exciting opportunity available for a Vet Surgeon to join our out-of-hours team at our Vets Now Manchester hospital.
This role will include a mixture of consulting/procedures and inpatient responsibility.
This is a good opportunity to work within a busy primary care emergency with exposure to referral caseload.
In this role you will be supported by a dedicated team, where you will benefit from interesting cases and opportunities to expand your skills.
Working out-of-hours doesn’t mean working all hours
In this part-time role, you will work an average of 26 hours per week. Working on a 6-week rolling rota, the shifts will include swing shifts, backshifts and night shifts, this includes shifts during the week and 2 in 6 weekends, plus a fair share of bank holidays.
Shift times will typically include 1pm-12am, 3pm-2am, 4pm-3am, 5pm-4am and 9pm-8am.
A rota example is below (11-hour shifts, on a 6-week rolling rota):
*Week 1: Thursday, Friday
*Week 2: Friday, Saturday, Sunday
*Week 3: OFF
*Week 4: Wednesday, Thursday
*Week 5: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
*Week 6: Monday Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday
We look after you, so you can look after them
At Vets Now we recognise that our people are what makes us. That’s why we are continuing to invest in first class reward and recognition benefits and initiatives.
*Private medical insurance
*Membership of employee wellbeing programme
*Enhanced sick pay
*Enhanced maternity policy including 6 months full pay
*Family-friendly policies including paternity and adoption pay schemes
*7 weeks pro rata annual leave
*Your birthday as a paid day off
*Paid volunteering days
*£1500 CPD allowance plus 35 paid hours pro rata
*ECC certificate support – financial and paid study leave
*Access to our Edge programmes
*RCVS fees, VECCS membership, VDS cover
*Vets Now For You – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
*UK Standard Pension contributions – 5% Employee/3% Employer
*Up to 50% discounted staff pet care
*Death in service of two times annual salary
Give yourself the AdvantEdge
At Vets Now, we are passionate about training and the ongoing development of our employees. If this vacancy is of interest and you feel you would benefit from an enhanced induction into our business, then the below option may be perfect for you:
AdvantEdge - A programme for talented Vets that will fast track them into a successful emergency role. This programme includes 1 week of hands-on practical training, and 20 hours of flexible case-based e-learning completed at your own pace. This blended approach is designed to help you start your career at Vets Now with confidence.
Apply at Vets Now
To be considered for this role, please click apply. To get in touch with Angie in our Talent team to discuss further, please email: [email protected].
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from diverse and minority groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we encourage candidates with disabilities and health conditions to apply and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.