Veterinary Receptionist

**About us**

**The role**
We are seeking a part-time weekend Veterinary Receptionist to join our Dorchester 24-hour hospital. This role will be supporting a team of Veterinary Surgeons, Nurses and Patient Care Assistants, assisting with reception tasks and welcoming all clients and patients into the practice.

40 hours a week

1:3 weekend working on Sundays 09:00 - 19:00

**Key accountabilities**
The duties of the Veterinary Receptionist (Client Care Assistant) include but are not limited to:

- Prompt and efficient telephone answering
- Dealing with routine client queries
- Making appointments
- Taking payments
- Money handling and banking

**Skills and experience**

This position will best suit a proactive enthusiastic individual with a passion for customer service and exceptional communication skills. You will be able to multitask, remain calm under pressure and priorities your workload whilst maintaining a friendly and welcoming disposition.

Previous veterinary receptionist experience is desirable but not essential.

**Branch**
Medivet Dorchester is a long-established practice in the heart of the beautiful county town of Dorchester, within a stone's throw of the famous Jurassic coast. We pride ourselves on providing excellent care to our patients from our smart, recently refurbished premises. We are a 24-hour centre so have a vet and nurse on site, awake, looking after our patients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and are the only practice in the area to offer this. We also run our own emergency services clinic with a dedicated night team for local practices' out of hour cover. We have CT currently being installed and excellent diagnostic equipment enabling true hospital level care.

Job Reference: FR04533