Veterinary Surgical Intern
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Location
Stockton-On-Tees, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
5/2/2025
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Job Title: Surgical Intern (2 posts)
Salary: £38,100
Location: Wear Referrals, North East England
Job Type: Full Time
Hours: 45 hours per week over any 5 days, Monday to Sunday (with first line on call for the referral surgical services together with a senior staff surgeon)
Closing date: 23rd May 2025
Start dates: June 2025 and July 2025
We have 2 exciting vacancies for a fixed-term Discipline Specific Surgical Internship.
Our second-year internships are available to candidates who are currently completing a Rotating Internship at a Referral Hospital. Candidates will be expected to play an active role in supporting the orthopaedic and soft tissue departments, with increasing responsibility over time. They will also take part in discipline-specific CPD and research, and provide OOH surgery support as part of the wider internship and referral teams.
Applicants must be highly motivated, proactive, and passionate about delivering clinical excellence, with excellent social and clinical skills.
Training and support will be provided to allow the appropriate candidate to work towards primary patient responsibility under the direct supervision of a senior staff surgeon. This position is ideal for a candidate pursuing residency by developing clinical decision making as well as practical skills, publishing research (projects and case reports available to start from day one), opportunity and encouragement to engage in teaching and conference presentations, continued professional development as well as residency application support and interview training.
Our orthopaedic service offers a range of advanced procedures including total hip, elbow and hock replacements, 4K arthroscopy and angular limb deformity correction with custom 3D printed implant design and surgical guides.
Our soft tissue service offers a complete range of specialist surgeries, supported by boarded specialists in medicine and oncology facilitating holistic perioperative care, including instrumentation for intraoperative fluoroscopy (stenting and SUB etc), negative pressure wound therapy and minimally invasive procedures (thoracoscopy, laparoscopy) utilising our state-of-the-art Storz 4K scope tower now offering near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) The service also sees large numbers of thoracic surgeries and other emergency cases.
Our hospital facilities include a dedicated ICU staffed 24 hours a day, spacious wards with walk-in kennels, in-house 1.5T Siemens Magnetom Essenza MRI, 16 slice Siemens Somatom Emotion helical CT, digital radiography, digital fluoroscopy, a Samsung RS85 ultrasound system and Arthrex / Karl Storz Laparoscopic/thoracoscopic and arthroscopic imaging systems.
We encourage an evidence-based multi-disciplinary approach, supporting a process of continuous learning and a collegiate atmosphere. We have an active internship programme and are expanding our residency programmes, with current residents in Surgery, Internal Medicine, Neurology and Oncology. Our extensive clinical caseload provides an interesting variety of cases and supports ongoing clinical research that is actively encouraged and supported. Linnaeus Veterinary Limited facilitates a highly collaborative approach between their hospitals and colleagues.
Benefits
About Us
Wear Referrals (part of Linnaeus Veterinary Limited, owned by Mars) is a multi-disciplinary, specialist veterinary referral hospital in the North East of England, close to the historic university city of Durham, the thriving city of Newcastle, and set between the north east coast and the Pennines. The hospital is also within easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and Scotland.
Our specialist services include neurology, orthopaedics, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, anaesthesia, oncology, diagnostic imaging and cardiology, as well as a busy primary care out-of-hours emergency service and in-house hydrotherapy. Our team of 180 staff includes 21 European/RCVS Specialists and 70 registered veterinary nurses. We have active residency programmes in surgery, internal medicine, neurology and oncology and are an accredited as a training venue and examination centre for nurse training.
Click https://vimeo.com/448554524 to see a video tour around our hospital.
We would love to hear from you!
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact our Talent Acquisition Business Partner Ophelia Hinds [email protected] or our Clinical Director, Ben Harris MA VetMB CertSAM FLS DipECVIM-CA MRCVS [email protected]
To apply, please submit a letter of intent and your CV.
Part of an amazing global family
Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.
Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.
Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.
Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates.
If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]
Job Title: Surgical Intern (2 posts)
Salary: £38,100
Location: Wear Referrals, North East England
Job Type: Full Time
Hours: 45 hours per week over any 5 days, Monday to Sunday (with first line on call for the referral surgical services together with a senior staff surgeon)
Closing date: 23rd May 2025
Start dates: June 2025 and July 2025
We have 2 exciting vacancies for a fixed-term Discipline Specific Surgical Internship.
Our second-year internships are available to candidates who are currently completing a Rotating Internship at a Referral Hospital. Candidates will be expected to play an active role in supporting the orthopaedic and soft tissue departments, with increasing responsibility over time. They will also take part in discipline-specific CPD and research, and provide OOH surgery support as part of the wider internship and referral teams.
Applicants must be highly motivated, proactive, and passionate about delivering clinical excellence, with excellent social and clinical skills.
Training and support will be provided to allow the appropriate candidate to work towards primary patient responsibility under the direct supervision of a senior staff surgeon. This position is ideal for a candidate pursuing residency by developing clinical decision making as well as practical skills, publishing research (projects and case reports available to start from day one), opportunity and encouragement to engage in teaching and conference presentations, continued professional development as well as residency application support and interview training.
Our orthopaedic service offers a range of advanced procedures including total hip, elbow and hock replacements, 4K arthroscopy and angular limb deformity correction with custom 3D printed implant design and surgical guides.
Our soft tissue service offers a complete range of specialist surgeries, supported by boarded specialists in medicine and oncology facilitating holistic perioperative care, including instrumentation for intraoperative fluoroscopy (stenting and SUB etc), negative pressure wound therapy and minimally invasive procedures (thoracoscopy, laparoscopy) utilising our state-of-the-art Storz 4K scope tower now offering near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) The service also sees large numbers of thoracic surgeries and other emergency cases.
Our hospital facilities include a dedicated ICU staffed 24 hours a day, spacious wards with walk-in kennels, in-house 1.5T Siemens Magnetom Essenza MRI, 16 slice Siemens Somatom Emotion helical CT, digital radiography, digital fluoroscopy, a Samsung RS85 ultrasound system and Arthrex / Karl Storz Laparoscopic/thoracoscopic and arthroscopic imaging systems.
We encourage an evidence-based multi-disciplinary approach, supporting a process of continuous learning and a collegiate atmosphere. We have an active internship programme and are expanding our residency programmes, with current residents in Surgery, Internal Medicine, Neurology and Oncology. Our extensive clinical caseload provides an interesting variety of cases and supports ongoing clinical research that is actively encouraged and supported. Linnaeus Veterinary Limited facilitates a highly collaborative approach between their hospitals and colleagues.
Benefits
- 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays and Birthday Leave
- RCVS and VDS fees paid
- External CPD funded
- Extensive free online Linnaeus CPD program
- Career progression opportunities
- Staff discount schemes
- Enhanced equal family leave
- Employer contribution pension scheme
- Wellness program including:
- Employee assistance program
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Free annual Flu jab
- Cycle to work scheme
- Recruitment referral reward scheme
About Us
Wear Referrals (part of Linnaeus Veterinary Limited, owned by Mars) is a multi-disciplinary, specialist veterinary referral hospital in the North East of England, close to the historic university city of Durham, the thriving city of Newcastle, and set between the north east coast and the Pennines. The hospital is also within easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and Scotland.
Our specialist services include neurology, orthopaedics, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, anaesthesia, oncology, diagnostic imaging and cardiology, as well as a busy primary care out-of-hours emergency service and in-house hydrotherapy. Our team of 180 staff includes 21 European/RCVS Specialists and 70 registered veterinary nurses. We have active residency programmes in surgery, internal medicine, neurology and oncology and are an accredited as a training venue and examination centre for nurse training.
Click https://vimeo.com/448554524 to see a video tour around our hospital.
We would love to hear from you!
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact our Talent Acquisition Business Partner Ophelia Hinds [email protected] or our Clinical Director, Ben Harris MA VetMB CertSAM FLS DipECVIM-CA MRCVS [email protected]
To apply, please submit a letter of intent and your CV.
Part of an amazing global family
Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.
Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.
Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.
Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates.
If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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