If we have any current vacancies at Larkmead Vets for veterinary surgeons, vet nurses, receptionists, or any other roles, they will be listed below.
Join a supportive, motivated, and talented team with an extremely loyal client base seeing a wide variety of cases, including orthopaedics. Enjoy the opportunities that independent practice offers to manage your own cases to an advanced level with appropriate in-house expertise and back-up. You could work towards a certificate in your field of interest (with support from experienced colleagues) if desired. Smile and enjoy being a vet!
This role is working a 4-day week, with a 1 in 12-week OOH rota (with time off in-lieu given).
Give us a call for an informal chat. We’d love you to come and meet the team!
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If this sounds like you, please email your CV with a covering letter to hr@larkmead.co.uk
Salary: £50-£65k dependent upon experience.
Join a supportive, motivated, and talented team with an extremely loyal client base seeing a wide variety of cases including orthopaedics. Enjoy the freedom that independent practice offers to manage your own cases to an advanced level and ideally you are a certificate holder, or keen to study for one.
Support your less-experienced colleagues within the framework of our mentoring programme. Smile and enjoy being a vet!
This role is based at one of our hospital practices working a 4-day week (or 5 shorter days), with no OOH commitment.
About us:
Larkmead is a proudly independent, XLVets member, Tier-2 Training Practice. Located in
South Oxfordshire with great links to the M40/M4 (45 minutes train to London).
Benefits include:
Please give us a call for an informal chat. We’d love you to come and meet the team!
Due to an expanding nursing team, we have an exciting vacancy for a caring, capable, and enthusiastic applicant to join our friendly nursing team, providing care and treatment to our patients.
We are an RCVS accredited training practice and will provide practical work-based training to the right candidate. We are looking for someone who would like to enter into the nursing profession and has previous experience in a clinical or animal environment. You will need 5 GCSE’s grades 9-4 (A*-C) including, Maths, English and Science.
The role is full time, 40 hours per week (including some nights and weekends on a rota basis with time off in lieu) and a full manual driving licence is essential.
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If this sounds like you, please email your CV with a covering letter to hr@larkmead.co.uk
Veterinary Practice Assistant
We are looking for a Veterinary Practice Assistant to join our team.
This is an entry level position, into the profession, and will allow you to gain experience in all areas of the practice. No previous experience is necessary, but you must be friendly and outgoing, a hard worker, who is keen to be part of a team that keeps the hospital clean, tidy, and working smoothly.
The role is full time, 40 hours per week (including some nights and weekends on a rota basis with time off in lieu.)
You will need 5 GCSE’s grades 9-4 (A*-C) including, Maths, English and Science, and you will need to be a car owner with a manual driving licence, as you will be required to work across all our practices in South Oxfordshire. An animal care qualification would be an advantage but is not essential.
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If this sounds like you, please email your CV with a covering letter to hr@larkmead.co.uk
We have an exciting vacancy for a Registered Veterinary Nurse to join our friendly team, providing care to our patients and assisting the veterinary team in all aspects of nursing care.
Larkmead is an independent busy first-opinion mixed practice based in South Oxfordshire.
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, hardworking, kind, and compassionate. You should be able to work well as part of a team and individually and keen to provide a great service to all of our patients and clients.
As an expanding practice, we are developing a career pathway for our nursing team and welcome applications from nurses of all levels, keen to join our supportive environment. There are plenty of opportunities available to expand your experience and skills, working with our veterinary team and directly with our clients, supporting them with animal care through our nurse clinics.
We are a training practice with a great team of students so a clinical coach qualification would be an advantage but not essential as training can be provided. We support and encourage CPD and areas of interest, including opportunities for moving into leadership roles within the team.
The role is full time, 40 hours per week (including some nights and weekends on a rota basis with time off in lieu). Part-time may be considered.
A full driving licence is essential to work across all of our practices.
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If this sounds like you, please email your CV with a covering letter to hr@larkmead.co.uk
We are looking to employ a receptionist to join our friendly team.
This role requires experience with client care or a similar customer facing role. This is a full-time post that would suit someone who puts the client at the heart of their role, not necessarily currently in the veterinary world but definitely in a busy, service focused environment. Full training on our systems will be given to the successful candidate who will be expected to use their own initiative, have a full driving licence and be available to work across all of our branches in South Oxfordshire. This role is full time (40hpw) with 1 in 4 shifts on the weekend rota (a Saturday or Sunday).
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This is not an exhaustive list and is subject to review on a regular basis.
Larkmead Veterinary Group is a happy practice, with a good working relationship between all staff, and welcomes like-minded personnel.
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If this sounds like you, please email your CV with a covering letter to hr@larkmead.co.uk
Small Animal Graduate Programme
Larkmead Vets is a privately owned Practice, based in South Oxfordshire, with locations in Cholsey, Didcot, Great Western Park, Benson, Sutton Courtenay & Wantage (opening 2024), with excellent links to the M4 and M40 with fast-track trains to London Paddington on our doorstep. Our full hospital facilities allow for career development in a wide range of disciplines with funded CPD and full support given.
Our Graduate Programme has run for many years and is hugely successful, allowing a smooth, supported, lead into the working world. Working closely with the XLVets group, all Graduates join their training programme, alongside having their own in-house mentor. The Larkmead Team are friendly and welcoming and very used to helping along new colleagues.
We are looking for the Graduates to start August 19th, 2024.
The rota is a 4-day working week with OOH and weekends gently eased into with support.
Larkmead pays for your professional indemnity cover with the Veterinary Defence Society, RCVS membership and membership of a relevant society (e.g., BSAVA or BVA).
A full driving licence is essential to work across all of our practices.
Shared modern, fully furnished, reasonably priced, accommodation inclusive of bills, is available locally.
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Please send your CV and cover letter to hr@larkmead.co.uk.
Please direct enquiries to hr@larkmead.co.uk
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