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No matter where your passion in veterinary medicine lies, the IVC Evidensia Graduate Academy programme offers a comprehensive and tailored learning experience to support you in achieving your potential. Are you a recent or soon-to-be veterinary graduate looking to embark on a successful and fulfilling career in veterinary medicine?
Shape your journey to veterinary excellence with our Graduate Academy programme. Unlock your potential through practical and online CPD courses and development opportunities. Feel empowered with mentor and well-being support, alongside a host of benefits and rewards. Find support and inspiration, with our global network of peers and professionals ready and waiting to welcome you.
Join us on this exciting journey, and let's shape the future of veterinary care together.
Unlock your passions at Park Issa Vets
We are a friendly, 1st opinion companion animal practice with hospital status set on the Welsh marches in a busy expanding market town of Owestry. Oswestry is a great place to live with good roads to both the Midlands and the Northwest. It’s still a reasonably priced area to both live in. We are surrounded by countryside and right next to the Berwyns and Snowdonia but we are also less than an hour and a half from 3 international airports
We have a wonderful team of 9 Vets, 9 Nurses and 1 VCA. We have a good mix of younger Vets who joined straight from college and experienced Vets meaning there is good support both informally and formally with fortnightly Vets meetings and quarterly staff appraisals.
As a hospital status practice we have a good level of equipment including digital x-ray, ultrasound, endoscopy, ECG, diathermy, MMP kit, multiparameter anaesthetic monitoring, idexx lab suite in a dedicated lab, dental tub table, slit lamp, tonopen and indirect ophthalmoscope. We have 4 Surgery certificate holders, 2 Medicine certificate holders and 1 Ophthalmology certificate holder.
Step into a supportive start
Your normal hours of work are 40 hours per week, 5 days a week. Monday to Friday between 08:30 and 17:30. You will also be required to participate in a weekend rota and an out of hours on-call rota which will include working on weekends and bank holidays.
We have a good history of developing our graduates. Of the three academy graduates we have had, 2 still work for us. 5 of our Vets joined us straight from college and are still with us. 1 is now a Clinical Director and 3 are certificate holders. We would hope that this shows the support of the practice allows our graduates to grow without the need to move on.
We are IVC Evidensia
We are committed to supporting you in shaping your journey to reach your potential, whatever your career aims. That’s why, our graduate academy programme has been developed to offer you:
- Comprehensive learning
- Take your career to the next level with our comprehensive blended learning programme, with a choice of streams to fit your career dreams.
- Global Network
- Build lifelong connections with our global community of veterinary professionals, and the opportunity to work at locations across our network as your career progresses.
- CPD and development
- Unlock your passions with exciting CPD and development opportunities, including access to apply for the IVC Evidensia Research Fund.
- Support
- Gain invaluable experience and support from a dedicated mentor who cares about your progression.
- Wellbeing
- Feel empowered with our wellbeing support offering.
Benefits
Discover a host of benefits and rewards, including a competitive salary starting from £34k. A rewarding career – it’s yours for the taking. We offer excellent employee benefits, as we believe that our people do their best work when they feel comfortable, nurtured, and valued:
- Year 1 salary from £34,000 increasing to year 2
- No financial tie-in
- 6.6 weeks annual leave
- Your birthday as a paid day off
- Pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Health and wellbeing – you’ll get free eye tests and discounted gym membership.
- ‘Pawsome’ benefits and rewards scheme, plus a great discount on pet care
- Employee assistance programme - we all have times in our life when we need a little extra support, which is why we offer a comprehensive employee assistance programme, including access to support.
- Professional memberships – we cover the cost of your RCVS renewal fees and other memberships.
We know how committed you’ve been throughout your studies now let us help you create the perfect launch pad to a bright career. Join us on this exciting journey, and let's shape the future of veterinary care together.
As a BAME and LGBT+ inclusive employer, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.