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Job Title: Lead Veterinary Surgeon
Location: Village Vets, Hampstead Hospital, London
Role type: Permanent
Salary: From £75,000 per annum, depending on experience.
Hours: Full-time 42 hours per week. 4-day week and 1 in 4 full weekends with time back in lieu.
Join Village Vet Hampstead as a Lead Vet and play a pivotal role in shaping outstanding veterinary care!
You’ll be part of a passionate team committed to delivering the highest standards of service and outcomes for our patients and clients. In this leadership role, you’ll line manage a team of 4 vets within a wider group of 12, including 2 fellow Lead Vets, a Clinical Director, and our dedicated night team.
This position offers a balanced mix of clinical and protected management time, allowing you to lead by example while supporting team development and practice performance. You’ll champion clinical excellence, foster a collaborative and respectful culture, and ensure exceptional patient care through empathetic leadership.
Working hours: Full-time across a 4-day week, including 1 in 4 full weekends. You’ll have a fixed day off (Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday), with some shifts finishing at 8pm.
Why join us:
- Hampstead is a fantastically well-equipped 24hour hospital, you will have access to a CT scanner, full dental suite, fully kitted out ICU, endoscopy, ultrasound and much more.
- Specific areas of interests encouraged and supported; you will be working alongside certificate holders in Surgery, ECC, medicine, exotics and diagnostic imaging.
- Along with our primary care clinic, the Hampstead practice also receives internal and external surgical referrals and serves as the 24-hour emergency clinic for many North London vet practices. Additionally, Hampstead sees a very high emergency caseload and would be a great environment to develop an interest in this area. An imaging interest would also compliment this position very well.
- We have an experience dedicated night team on site, making this a day only position, with no nights or on call.
What we are looking for:
- MRCVS minimum 5 years’ experience and confidence in small animal general practice.
- Existing line management experience desirable
- Commercial understanding beneficial but support can be provided to help build experience in this area.
Benefits
- Certifications encouraged and funding available
- 5 weeks' holiday + bank holidays + birthday leave
- RCVS and VDS fees paid
- £1500 allowance for CPD in addition to access to incredible resources from Linnaeus
- Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
- Career progression opportunities
- Staff discount schemes
- Enhanced parental leave and sick pay
- E car salary sacrifice scheme
- Enhanced equal family leave
- Wellness program including:
- Employee assistance program
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Free annual flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme
- Recruitment referral reward scheme.
If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please reach out directly to Natalie Shoemark [email protected]
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Salary Value: £75,000 per annum;
Salary Description: From and dependent on experience;
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