Veterinary Services Director

**Veterinary Services Director**
Homebased (with regular travel)
**About Us**
Blue Cross are one of the UK’s leading rehoming organisations for animals. We support sick, injured and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes.
Now, we’re looking for a Veterinary Services Director to join us on a full-time basis and lead our clinical teams.
**The Benefits**:

- Salary of £75,000 - £90,000 per annum
- Pension scheme
- Company sick pay
- Life insurance (after probationary period)
- Employee assistance programme, including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, support with personal issues and financial advice
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Flexible working
- Enhanced parental, maternity, paternity leave, holiday exchange, volunteer days and sabbatical leave
- Long service awards and Blue Cross Spirit Awards
- Develop your career with a charity that’s been supporting animals since 1897
If you are a practising veterinary clinician with experience managing large national teams, this is the perfect opportunity to undertake important, rewarding work for our brilliant organisation.
This is a rare chance to express your passion for animals like never before. You will put your expertise and skills into practice to ensure all pet owners, regardless of their financial situation, are able to access veterinary care.
**The Role**
As the Veterinary Services Director, you will be responsible for leading our clinical teams, ensuring the delivery of best-in-class veterinary care and developing a strategy for continually improving, and expanding access to, our affordable services.
You will develop an innovative and sustainable clinical strategy to increase the accessibility and affordability of our services to ensure pet owners in financial hardship can access the veterinary care they need.
Embedding a healthy, positive culture, you will attract and maintain a highly engaged team, providing them with compelling career pathways.
You will develop and maintain strategic partnerships and relationships, as well as supporting the development of pragmatic clinical guidelines that support low-cost veterinary care.
Additionally, you will act as senior veterinary surgeon and be an executive team member, meaning you will have overall responsibility for veterinary direction and delivery within our organisation and will have a pivotal hand in the direction of our organisationas a whole.
**About You**
To be considered as the Veterinary Services Director, you will need:

- Demonstrable experience as a Veterinary Director or in a relevant senior veterinary role managing large national teams
- Experience working with committees and boards
- Significant experience leading large operational teams
- The demonstrable ability to strategically plan and deliver organisational change
- To be passionate about animals, the value they have in society and a genuine interest in improving animal welfare
- Excellent leadership and coaching skills
- To be a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- A full, valid driving licence
Experience of public speaking and working with the media would also be favourable.
Please note, both homebased and hybrid options are available. This role involves travel to our different sites across the country.
The salary for this role is a Grade 1.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Other organisations may call this role Services Director, Clinical Director, Veterinary Clinical Director, or Service Delivery Director.
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