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…… LI-LS1 LI-Onsite Salary Value:£65,000 per annum; Salary Description:Up to £5,000 welcome bonus and salary up to depending on experience;