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Lifelong learning
- Students
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- RCVS Leadership Initiative
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Setting standards
- Practice Standards Scheme
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Concerns
- Veterinary professionals: how to raise a concern
- Animal owners: how to raise a concern
- A concern has been raised about me
- Disciplinary Committee hearings
- Veterinary Client Mediation Service (VCMS)
Staff benefits
We're pleased to offer an attractive benefits package to all our staff.
Contractual
- 33.75 working hours per week
- *25 days holiday with an additional day added every 2 years, up to a maximum of 30 days, plus the 8 bank holiday days
- Permanent health insurance
- £250 Well-being allowance - spend up to £250 on anything linked with well-being
- SMART Pension (AEGON-New GP) - we think its really important that people have the opportunity to save for their future, here are the contribution details that employees can enjoy:
| Employee contribution | Employer contribution |
| 3% basic salary | 6% basic salary |
| 4% basic salary | 8% basic salary |
| 5% basic salary | 10% basic salary |
| 6% basic salary | 12% basic salary |
Note: The maximum employer contribution will be 12% of your basic salary.
Non-contractual
- An additional day off at the end of the year (ex gratia day)
- 2 days paid volunteering per year
- Private medical insurance - AXA PPP (taxable option)
- Season ticket loan - allows you to spread the cost of your loan over 10 months, up to £10,000 per annum
- Cycle to work scheme - enables you to buy a bike for yourself and pay for it in 12 monthly instalments directly through a deduction of your gross salary
- Remote working
- Discount and benefits portal through Reward Gateway (offering discounts at over 900 retailers)
- Tax-free childcare - via the Gov.uk website
- Enhanced maternity & paternity provision
- In-house training / short external courses / further education
- *Holiday trading - employees can buy/sell/carry up to 5 holiday days each year, as long as the statutory amount of days has been taken prior
- *Loyalty bonus - we want to recognise loyalty, so every 4 years employees receive £1,000
- Babylon Health app - face time & calls with doctors (service offered free of charge for all family members)
- Employee assistance program (offering assistance, advice, counselling)
- Free eye tests and £50 towards frames
- In-house staff massages (twice a month)
- Netball & football team, yoga in-house
- Free fruit
- Flu jabs
- PAWs awards (ad-hoc awards with cash values)
- Sabbatical (after 10 years)
- X-mas hamper
- Use of company library
- Buckingham palace garden party invite - not all employees get to go but there is a chance you could be selected to attend
- Retirement gift (tax free £1,000)
*Pro-rated for part time staff