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!

Benefits include:

• 4 day working week
• 5 weeks holiday
• Generous pet discount scheme
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Free refreshments
• Staff social activities
• Annual flu vaccination
• Funded CPD & Professional Subscriptions
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Branded uniform
• Long Service Loyalty Awards
• Enhanced Maternity Package

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).

• Modern well-equipped facilities
• Separate Dental & Orthopaedic operating-suites
• Digital radiography including dental
• Ultrasound
• Endoscopy
• 24 hour on-site nursing team
• In-house IDEXX laboratory

Benefits include:

• 4-day working week
• 5 weeks holiday
• Generous pet discount scheme
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Free refreshments
• Staff social activities
• Annual flu vaccination
• Funded CPD & Professional Subscriptions
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Branded uniform
• Long Service Loyalty Awards
• Enhanced Maternity Package

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.

Main Responsibilities:

• To provide care and treatment, under supervision for all patients.
• To maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in clinical areas, kennels, and cattery.
• To maintain the laundry.
• To assist with animal handing.
• Help to maintain the practice grounds.
• Carry out laboratory work as directed.
• To carry out reception duties.
• Must be willing to perform out-of-hours cover to assure animal welfare as per the nursing team rota.
• Be able to keep accurate hospital records and required paperwork.
• To undertake Lark mead’s training programme as directed by the senior nursing staff.
• To attend team and practice meetings as required.
• Health and safety as appropriate to the role.

Benefits include:

• 22 days holiday plus UK Bank Holidays
• Generous pet discount scheme
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Free refreshments
• Staff social activities
• Annual flu vaccination
• Funded CPD & Professional Subscriptions
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Branded uniform
• Long Service Loyalty Awards
• Enhanced Maternity Package

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.

Main Responsibilities:

• To undertake a 12 week training programme to learn all tasks required for the role as directed by the senior nursing team and senior reception staff.
• To carry out routine daily tasks to maintain smooth running of the clinical areas, including stocking up and kit cleaning/preparation, scrubbing patients for theatre.
• To support the nurses/vets to provide care for inpatients.
• To help maintain high clinical standards in all areas of the practice and follow SOPs/practice protocols.
• To complete clear records of cleaning daily in all areas.
• To assist with animal handling as instructed.
• To help maintain practice appearance.
• To carry out inhouse lab work and prepare external samples.
• To assist with reception work and phone answering when required.
• To keep accurate hospital records and required paperwork as directed by the nursing team.
• To attend team and practice meetings as required.
• Complete health and safety appropriate to the role.

Benefits include:

• Generous pet discount scheme
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Free refreshments
• Staff social activities
• Annual flu vaccination
• Funded CPD & Professional Subscriptions
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Branded uniform
• Long Service Loyalty Awards
• Enhanced Maternity Package

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.

Main Responsibilities:

• To provide care and treatment for all patients under clinical supervision
• Assisting experienced vets in surgery including orthopaedics
• Assisting vets with the medical care of in-patients to a high standard
• To provide support and training to our student nurses
• Opportunity to engage with nurse clinics and puppy parties for our clients.
• To ensure high standard of cleanliness in the clinical care areas

Benefits include:

• Generous pet discount scheme
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Free refreshments
• Staff social activities
• Annual flu vaccination
• Funded CPD & Professional Subscriptions
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Branded uniform
• Long Service Loyalty Awards
• Enhanced Maternity Package

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).

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide a friendly, efficient and caring service to clients and their animals.
• To answer the telephone and take accurate messages.
• To deal with clients at reception or on the telephone.
• Be able to enter computer data accurately and appropriately.
• To handle payments and cash up in line with practice protocol.
• To assist with the cleaning and tidying of the waiting room, reception area, consulting rooms and pharmacy.
• To liaise with reception, nursing and veterinary staff.
• To stock shelves with food and pet products.
• To participate in training and development activities as required.
• To attend team and practice meetings as required.
• To follow correct policies, protocols and procedures.
• To be efficient, courteous and polite.
• To be concerned and helpful to colleagues, clients and their animals, under all conditions.
• To be keen, enthusiastic and willing to learn and an honest and reliable team member.
• To uphold the Larkmead Values.

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.

Benefits Include:

• Support to complete awards and become registered with the British Veterinary Receptionist Association
• 20 days holiday plus UK Bank Holidays
• Veterinary care staff discount package
• Onsite parking
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pet discount scheme
• Long Service Loyalty Awards
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Free refreshments
• Staff social activities
• Annual flu vaccination

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 19^th, 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.

Main Responsibilities

• To perform routine clinical veterinary work covering all species of small animals, birds and reptiles commonly kept as pets
• Competence in basic small animal surgical procedures
• Confidently deal with clients and colleagues through phone/mail and face to face
• To promote Larkmead Vets in a professional manner on and off the premises
• To keep up to date with changes/ advances in veterinary medicine and take responsibility for identifying relevant training needs
• To take responsibility for keeping client records updated.
• To liaise with work colleagues – veterinary, nursing and support staff in a professional manner
• To inform owners of laboratory results in a clear and timely way when necessary.
• To provide help and guidance to the nursing staff regarding in-patient care
• To help with the training and development of other team members, both through practical training and sharing of knowledge gained via CPD.
• To be actively involved in XLVets
• To give presentations/ assist in client education through writing the newsletter, discussion groups, waiting room displays etc
• Must be willing to perform out-of-hours cover to assure animal welfare as per the small animal team rota.
• To help achieve the development of Larkmead Vets business practices and commercial services and support the Larkmead values.
• To attend team and practice meetings as required
• To abide by the code of conduct issued by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

 Benefits include:

• Funded CPD & Professional Subscriptions
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Generous pet discount scheme
• Long Service Loyalty Awards
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption, & Paternity Packages
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support service
• Staff social activities
• Annual flu vaccination
• Free refreshments
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Please send your CV and cover letter to hr@larkmead.co.uk.